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...four members of his regular congregation attended. Even the organist, a cautious lady, stayed away. The white-haired rector stalked down the aisle crying dramatically, "I must have someone to help me!" A grey-haired male stranger volunteered. For evensong rubberneck wagons, taxis, excursion trains brought gaping crowds from miles around. The church was packed. Special police had to handle the crowds. Dr. Davidson preached on the Resurrection, as befitted the season, but added a few personal remarks: "If improper thought comes to us, there is no harm in that whatsoever, because that is Temptation, but we must not encourage...
...Alan Gray, former organist of Trinity College, Cambridge and a composer of note, discovered with horror last week that he had rented the local Y. M. C. A. hall to exhibitors of Soviet posters who were displaying Lenin's famed slogan "Religion is opium for the people...
Professor A. T. Davison, Organist and Choir Master, will give a short talk on the subject, "Teaching Music in Colleges". Following this there will be a number of presentations by the Harvard-Radcliffe trio, a musical group formed some time ago and since proved successful in operation...
...problem, decided the National Association of Organists when 200 delegates met in Manhattan last week for its 24th annual convention, is the increasing tendency of churches to employ "choral specialists" in place of organists. Said Rowland W. Dunham, director of the College of Music at the University of Colorado (Boulder, Col.): "We are all agreed that good, unaccompanied choral singing is beautiful, appropriate and desirable, but is that all that should be heard in church? Shall the organ be silent except for its necessary help on the hymns, a very short prelude and a totally useless postlude? I think...
President of the Association, re-elected last week for a third term, is Harold Vin cent Milligan, organist of the (Rocke feller) Riverside Church and of its predecessor, the Park Avenue Baptist Church. Born 42 years ago in Astoria, Ore., he is blond, bespectacled, looks less esthetic than businesslike. He has studied early U. S. music, written the sole biography of Composer Stephen Collins Foster, com posed songs, organ pieces and operettas. Lately he has devoted all his time to organ-playing and managing the N. A. O. and the National Music League which, with Mrs. Otto Hermann Kahn...