Word: organists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British Organist Sir Walter Parrat once said: "I think that if you put a cow into York she would moo beautifully...
...music swelled through the Gothic nave and died away. At the organ console beside the apse, a white-haired little man of 79 turned off the organ switch and gathered up his music. Dr. T. Tertius Noble, organist for three decades at Manhattan's famed St. Thomas' Protestant Episcopal Church, had decided to give up playing in public "while I can still do a good...
...church music's most honored living men, British-born Dr. Noble was organist (for 15 years and some 14,000 services) at 600-year-old York Minster, celebrated for its architecture and its acoustics.* When he left in 1913 to come to the U.S., Archbishop of York Cosmo Gordon Lang (later Archbishop of Canterbury) charged him: "I want you to go to America and take some of York Minster into your church on Fifth Avenue. You must carry some of the old world into...
After a trip back to York Minster this summer, Organist Noble plans to go on composing at his ocean-front home in Massachusetts, "until the publishers start turning me down." In retirement, he may also have enough leisure to correct the oft-published story that he is the uncle of British-born Jazz Bandman Ray Noble. Says Dr. Noble with a smile: "We're no relation at all. I can't imagine why he should want to claim...
...women of the Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society will join forces with members of the New England Conservatory Orchestra in vivifying eight lectures on the history of choral music from 1450 to 1750 to be given by G. Wallace Woodworth '24, professor of Music and University Organist and Choirmaster...