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...second of a series of weekly organ recitals will be given in the Memorial Church by Arthur M. Phelps, organist of the Summer School, and choirmaster of the Cathedral of St. Paul in Boston, on Thursday evening, July 20 at 7.15 o'clock. Miss Gwenolyn Morton, soprano, will assist...
When an interviewer asked Publisher Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis what piece of music he would like to listen to on his deathbed, he promptly replied: "Hymn to the Night."-the hymn written by Organist Hermann Kotzschmar, his father's friend in Portland, Me. On his deathbed at '"Lyndon," his estate near Philadelphia, last week old Mr. Curtis, who would have been 83 on June 18, heard no music. Comatose, in the last grip of a heart ailment from which he had long suffered, he did not even see at his bedside his only daughter, Mrs. Mary Louise Curtis...
...Appleton Chapel with Dean Willard Learoyd Sperry conducting during the month of July. In past years the exercises held in Phillips Brooks House and conducted by various local preachers, have not been well attended. This change is in the nature of an experiment. Professor Black has secured an organist, A. M. Phelps, who plays in St. Paul's in Boston, for the services...
...Harvard Glee Club's prestige but for the way it has inspired other colleges to improve their musical standards is the small, baldish, square-set man who conducted last week, mouthing the music along with the boys, smiling approval after each number. He was Archibald Thompson Davison, organist and choirmaster at Appleton Chapel, who has been the Glee Club's director for 21 years. He had been convinced that college boys could sing as artistically as professional choruses. Because of his candid, unassuming ways, his free & easy speech, the boys listened to him as they would...
...Chicago Leo Sowerby leads the same simple, methodical life. He likes to be an organist because it gives him time to compose, to develop his interest in old ecclesiastical music. He teaches at the American Conservatory of Music, where he put in his own first serious study. Eastern audiences are better acquainted with the music of Howard Hanson. Composer Sowerby's Rochester friend, but discriminating midwesterners regard Sowerby as every bit Hanson's equal, an opinion which many a New Yorker heartily indorsed last week after listening to Prairie...