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...seasonal sentiments of peace on earth and goodwill to fellow man, the Harvard University Choir will perform in the 97th Annual Christmas Carol Services this Sunday, Dec. 17, at 5. p.m. and Monday, Dec. 18, at 8 p.m. in Memorial Church. Created in 1909 as a gift of University Organist and Choirmaster Archibald T. Davison and Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Edward C. Moore to the Harvard and Cambridge community, the services are the oldest continually running carol services in America. While the format of the services—carols and hymns interspersed by readings from scripture?...
...Spellberg calls the “benevolent interest” comes from people like Thomas Forrest Kelly, the Morton B. Knafel Professor of Music and longtime HEMS faculty advisor, former HEMS music director and violinist Robert Mealy ’85-’87, and renowned harpsichordist and organist Frances Fitch, who currently serves as the Chair of Early Music at the Longy School of Music...
...spookier side of the instrument late Tuesday evening.The Society put on the show for a modest crowd, some costumed, in Memorial Church. The church lights were dimmed and a screen erected on the altar so the audience could see the performers at work. Edward Jones, the Gund University organist and choirmaster and curator of the University Organs, began the evening with J.S. Bach’s famous Toccata and Fugue in D Minor. Jones performed the impressive piece at an atypically brisk pace, but did a fine job all the same.Tamar H. Grader ’10 continued with...
...When West and his late wife Mandy took over the Majestic in 1974, the old picture palace had long since adapted to the talkie, Technicolor times. Ron, whose father played the oboe in silent-movie orchestras in New Zealand, had been a church organist since his schooldays, when he took up the organ to get out of football. As a hobby, "a plaything that I thought would keep me busy into my retirement," he started restoring the Majestic's decrepit organ, gathering pipes and electrical switches from old theaters and churches as far away as Fiji...
...Yanji, China, a man in his late 60s. He wonders who will take his place, and the place of other, older activists. "Where are the young soldiers to step into the place that older missionaries now fill?" he asks the congregation. He steps down from the pulpit, and the organist begins playing the anthem associated more than any other with escape from bondage. In Korean, 2,000 voices swell to sing The Battle Hymn of the Republic...