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...editor of a Polish-language newspaper, accused of collaborating with an Endicott Johnson foreman. Another was a Scranton, Pa. church organist, behind whose organ $1,250 of the bogus bills were discovered. Another was Robert Reidt Jr., son of a Long Island tea shop proprietor who frightened his neighbors in 1925 by proclaiming the end of the world was at hand...
Worcester first heard Edward Elgar's music but did little to encourage him. Nor did England, until after Europe had approved him. Nor did Edward Elgar's father, who, in spite of being the town's best organist, had to keep a music shop to eke out a living for his seven children. Elgar's early talent was extraordinary. He learned to play the organ by watching his father Sunday mornings, taught himself the bassoon well enough to play in local festivals. But Father Elgar was not impressed. He set the boy to work...
Dear Sir: . . . My organist insists upon dragging his fingers over four or five keys, like an upward run, at least twice in each hymn stanza. He will not play the harmony as is, but manufactures harmonies of his own, with many fancy chromatic chords. His harmony is always thin, and lacking the power of the original as given in the hymn book. . . . He uses his tremolo too much, and drives everybody nearly to tears by his abuse of the chimes. Now he insists upon adding a Vox Humana stop to the organ. If I chant the Communion Service...
...What would Martin Luther have thought of an organist who chased his pastor and abused his chimes...
...Germany, where Minister of Propaganda and Public Enlightenment Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels tries to make all news-organs play the same tune "like a great organ of many pipes," Organist Goebbels seemed unable to make up his mind about Roosevelt money, permitted a divergence of expression unprecedented since he sat down at the Fatherland's Press keyboard. Led by the Vossische Zeitung, one section of the German financial Press flayed President Roosevelt for "disturbing the world with a rubber dollar" expanding and contracting between 50? and 60?. Other equally authoritative papers echoed the Berlin Börsenzeitung...