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...stale, lace-curtained musical atmosphere of mid-Victorian Worcester, where he grew up. The fresh gusts of new music blowing off the Continent never stirred Worcester, and Elgar did not venture as far as London until he was 22. His father was a church organist and sometime piano tuner, and Elgar was raised on warmed-over Mendelssohnian oratorios and cantatas. He played the bassoon, violin and piano in amateur groups, conducted the Worcester Glee Club's orchestra and the County Lunatic Asylum's band...
...From the Underground. Wyszynski's influence also depends upon his personal history. In a country whose clergy were ofter accused of being allied with the aristocracy, Wyszynski always identified himself with the working man. He was born poor, son of a church organist and schoolteacher in the village of Zuzela near Bialystok. He earned a doctorate in Canon Law and Social Sciences at the University of Lublin, and became known as a "labor priest." He wrote several books on such subjects as unemployment and the rights of labor, was even beginning to act as counsel in labor disputes when...
That long, extraordinary career began in the small, dusty Catalan town of Vendrell, south of Barcelona, where Casals' father was a church organist. By the time the boy was eleven, he had mastered the organ, piano and violin and had turned to the cello and the music of Bach (later he was to begin each of his days by playing a few minutes of Bach's Well Tempered Clavichord). Packed off to Barcelona to study, he played in a gambling casino to support himself. Said one awed casino patron: "He transformed a cage into a concert hall...
...that of suffering. As the son of a Protestant preacher in Alsace, he was rejected by the other boys in his village as a highborn brat, and the rejection made him, he says, almost morbidly sensitive to the sufferings of others. Although in his 20s he became famous as organist, philosopher, theologian, he never stopped wondering what he could do to ease the world's pain. At 30, he abandoned fame, plunged into medicine, determined to spend his life as a missionary doctor in French Equatorial Africa. "Man belongs to man," he wrote. "Man has claims...
Williamsburg will hang its newly acquired picture of Nancy, who later married a church organist in Jamaica, in its Raleigh Tavern. This is fitting enough, since George dined there before going to the theater, and Nancy herself must have been no stranger...