Word: organists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...religious bodies. As vice president of the Laymen's Movement for a Christian World, he tries to make Christian principles felt in various segments of public life, e.g., by helping to get a prayer room installed in Manhattan's U.N. headquarters (TIME, Nov. 10, 1952). A talented organist and amateur composer, he has also written and set to music some 30 up-to-date hymns...
...book, Hymns for Children and Grownups (Farrar, Straus & Young, $3.75), is Layman Bristol's biggest contribution to the church to date. Written with Co-Author Harold W. Friedell, organist at Manhattan's fashionable St. Bartholomew's Church, it is a collection of 185 Christian hymns, clearly arranged and brightly decorated, with a very special purpose. Most hymnbooks are written for use in church. Bristol's book is expressly designed for the home. His thesis: "Hymn-singing can easily become a delightful part of family life...
...Princeton Glee Club, conducted by Carl Weinrich, noted organist and Lamb Visiting Lecturer at Harvard in 1950, will perform several old English glees, folk songs by Stravinsky, Vaughan Williams, and Kodaly, and works by Schubert, Mendelssohn, and Sullivan...
Sylvia was indeed a hit. For one thing, it moved to a perfectly lyrical score by the father of modern ballet music, Léo Delibes (1836-91). Delibes, a musical whiz-kid who was accepted at the Paris Conservatory when he was twelve, became a church organist in his teens, wrote his first stage piece (Two Cents Worth of Coal) at 19. He was a pupil of famed Adolphe (Giselle) Adam, wrote with a symphonic fluidity that made much of the ballet compositions of his contemporaries sound like music for setting-up exercises. In all, he turned out about...
...years ago, produced such pioneering shows as Invitation to Music and School of the Air. As an enthusiast for contemporary scores, he also sandwiched them into briefer programs, along with salon music and show tunes. Nowadays, scarcely a program of CBS's informal Music Room, its recitals by Organist E. Power Biggs (both on Sunday mornings) or its Wednesday Top Hat show goes by without airing some new composition. Old friends Daniel and Stokowski met last winter and agreed that the time was ripe for a more ambitious program. The network played along...