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...Author. Odell Shepard, 46, is critic, poet, essayist. He has written eight books, many poems for the Christian Science Monitor. His activities have included: reporting for a Chicago newspaper, church organist, 21 years teaching. Several years ago he told friends he was working on a new book, The Natural History of Hobby Horses. For the past 13 years he has been a professor of English at Trinity College, Hartford, Conn. He may be found during his off hours, walking, bicycling, fishing in the unicornless country about Hartford...
...cantorship (an average of one a month). And, as always, the great Mass in B Minor. Soloists for the cantatas and the Mass were Sopranos Ernestine Hohn-Eberhard and Esther Dale, Contralto Mabel Beddoe, Tenors Arthur Kraft and Arthur Hackett, Bassos Charles T. Tittman and Robert M. Crawford and Organist T. Edgar Shields. The local choir of 241 voices sang the choruses assisted by 40 members of the Philadelphia Orchestra...
...college or an apprenticeship in the local drugstore he chose the drugstore because it gave him more time for music. Later, in Germany, he became imbued with the spirit of Bach, and when he returned to Bethlehem and became organist at the Moravian Church, it was with the idea of making Bach's music known there. Today the Bethlehem performances under Wolle are the object of a national pilgrimage...
There is nothing in Stokowski's back-ground to explain his penchant for the new. He was conventionally raised in London, son of a Polish father and an Irish mother. He went to Queen's College, Oxford, thence to London where he became organist in St. James's Church in Piccadilly. It was as an organist that he came to the U. S. in 1905, 23 then and looking much as he does now-slender, pale-blue-eyed, seraphically blond. He played for three years at St. Bartholomew's Church, Manhattan, saved his money, returned...
...Salem, Mass., Kenneth Moffett, church organist, stepped among fallen trolley wires which burned off all his clothes without hurting...