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Anent "experience," Dr. Taylor looks back along 47 years on a poverty stricken youth, postgraduate work at Oregon Agricultural College and the University of Oregon, the accident which crushed his hands and ruined his hope of becoming a professional organist, a superintendency of schools in Oregon, and nation-wide wandering as a Chautauqua lecturer. Out of this he has the formula for successfully throwing oil on trouble human waters. Remembering his youth, he gives organized charity the sizeable contributions he receives from well-wishers...
...lamp in St. Louis' Temple Israel last week rested a plain coffin. In his pulpit, black-robed Rabbi Ferdinand Myron Isserman intoned three psalms in English, a Kaddish (Jewish mourning prayer) in Hebrew. Forsaken was played on the chimes. Two vocalists sang Beautiful Isle of Somewhere. Finally the organist thundered out Beethoven's Funeral March. Only half the throng of 200 who heard and beheld this impressive funeral service were Jewish. The rest were Negroes, friends and relatives of Henry Bibb who had died at 72 after serving for 47 years as Temple Israel's janitor...
...times. Ever since he died in 1925, the Temple has been looking for "another Conwell." Dr. A. Ray Petty, who came in 1926, shocked his flock by inviting Negroes and again, when 50 parishioners started to walk out on a sermon defending Al Smith, by directing the organist to follow their steps with Chopin's Funeral March. Dr. Petty was soon replaced by Dr. Michael Joseph Twomey who abruptly resigned last April, explaining: "God says I go." Tired of seeking another Conwell, the Temple last week decided to try something different-a Poling...
...graceful, blonde Ebba Sundstrom, who is determined that the orchestra shall sound professional. Conductor Sundstrom has worked at music since she was a child on a farm in Lindsborg, Kans. At 7 she played the violin, at 13 she organized a trio, played in hotels and theatres. She was organist and choir director at Grace Lutheran Church, Minneapolis, when she met a young Swedish dentist as blonde as herself, became Mrs. Victor Nylander...
...first in the series will be given on Tuesday evening, October 29, by Archibald T. Davison, Professor of Choral music, Organist and Choir-Master. His program will...