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...musical director of WBZ radio and TV, he may currently be seen and heard on several programs. Since 1935 when he joined the WBZ staff, he has held various jobs including staff planist, organist, and music librarian...
...fully to his credentials. His Western civilization lectures were so polished that students flocked to hear them. He spoke at the Wooster Kiwanis Club and dazzled the local chapter of the American Association of University Women. He entertained graciously, and his personal library was rated excellent. An accomplished organist (he happened to mention, in passing, that he had a music degree from the University of Durham, England), he played during several services in the college chapel. Since he also let it be known that he had studied at St. Aidan's (Theological) College, he was asked to deliver...
Harvard's newest musical organization presented a recital in Memorial Church Friday night. The Organ society enlisted the services of Richard Reynolds, organist for the Central Congregational church of Jamaica Plain. His attractive, unusual program more than compensated for his minor technical deficiencies...
...program ended with a "Concert Study for the Pedal," by one Raphael Manari, a composer so obscure that he is not even mentioned in grove's nearly exhaustive Dictionary of Musicians. All that I know about him is that he was a teacher of the Vatican's present organist. The music is bombastic and superficial. a work by one of the moderns would have been a much more welcome finale...
...music of Thomson, the onetime Missouri church organist who went to Paris to study composition, is expertly tailored, but out of wholly familiar cloth. Handel might have composed most of it in an off moment, especially if he had lived in Missouri in the 20th century...