Word: organists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...officers can still hear the thunder of that West Point organ-the thunder and sweetness that greeted them on their first tour of the Point and each Sunday in chapel. Braided veterans come back again and again to hear it and to talk to the thunderer himself. He is Organist and Choirmaster Frederick C. (for Christian) Mayer, one of West Point's major institutions. For 43 years, regardless of what changing taste in church music might dictate, Mayer chose such rousing processionals as Onward, Christian Soldiers and America, the Beautiful so that his cadet choir could march in properly...
...That Russian was playing on his chute like an organist," marveled a pop-eyed observer at the Second International Parachute Jumping Championships of Saint-Yan last week. "Eto Nichevo," shrugged the jumper. "It was nothing. Everyone on my team...
Musician by inclination and wit by trade, Kansas City-born Virgil Thomson studied music in Paris (after Harvard), was an organist, choirmaster and freelance writer on music before he went to the Herald Tribune. He left New York's music public gasping with his very first column, a deft and devastating panning of the sacrosanct Philharmonic-Symphony ("the sombre and spiritless sonority of a German military band"). Thereafter, he shaded old-style critics by his saucy phrases, e.g., hearing Violinist Jascha Heifetz overpower a sonatina "made one feel . . . that one had somehow got on the Queen Mary...
Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover, and a skit spoofing Gilbert & Sullivan (and possibly E. Power Biggs) entitled The Organist Who Never, Never Lost a Chord...
Something for Everyone. Last week Biggs was back in England. Invited to play at Westminster Abbey, he had only a few hours of rehearsal with the huge organ. Because the Abbey's acoustics are so troublesome that the organist has scarcely any idea what his playing sounds like, Mrs. Biggs was stationed far below in the choir stall as Biggsie tried the stops, calling up to him, "Too squeaky," "Too harsh...