Word: organization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also important to recognize that this "G.I. Hamlet" is a dramatic but certainly not an artistic success. The bad taste of the Edwardian costumes remains apparent, and the music has hit a new low in Shakespearian efforts-an organ which reeks (literally) of Our Gal Sunday. The total effect of the production is, justifiably, an intended speeding-up and modernizing; only the bad taste which croops in occasionally and the inevitable shortcomings of Evans himself drag it down...
...Stuart knew there was something else which set him apart from the others. He talked about it once to his father, the rector of Christ Episcopal Church. His father just laughed. One quiet afternoon last week, when Stuart was playing the church organ, he thought about it again...
...left the organ and went down to the undercroft where Sexton John Frank, 58, was working. He asked Frank for a hammer, a heavy one. Then he dropped some coins on the floor. He started to pick them up, pretended a 50? piece was missing...
...midnight, in his organ voice, the Patriarch chanted, "Christ is risen, Christ is risen," while the choir and the 7,000 took up the refrain. Light from the Patriarch's candle, touched quickly to a dozen others, spread through the nave. Gorgeous in his robes of silvered silk and wearing a pearl-and-diamond crown, the Patriarch swung his fragrant censer, blessed them...
Friendly, 42-year-old Domkapitular Roth holds regular services in Dachau's 1,500-seat Catholic church, which was built by volunteer SS prisoners and is equipped with an organ whose pipes are made of U.S. Army tin cans. Says Father Roth...