Word: organizations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Supreme Soviet priests, bishops, or even His Holiness the Metropolitan Sergius who today still celebrates Orthodox rites with all pomp in one of the Moscow churches which have not been closed. Soviet reporters, while handling such news with mittens, have made clear in Pravda and in Izvestia (News), official organ of the Soviet Government, that the Russian priest of today is generally as much a "worker" as anyone else in the Soviet Union. Typically he is a factory hand, clerk or farm worker who preaches after hours. His sermons take for granted complete loyalty to the Stalin State...
...first recital by Mr. Biggs on the Germanic Museum organ took place early this week and received highly favorable comments. The second comes next Monday evening and again offers an opportunity to hear an all-Bach program played on a magnificent instrument...
...those of February. A rare Bach secular cantata called The Coffee Cantata proved so popular when released last month that Victor soon came out with a secular cantata of its own, Peasant Cantata. Last week's chief Musicraft offering was two of Bach's Trio Sonatas for Organ, played by Organist Carl Weinrich on the Westminster Choir School organ in Princeton...
...Most organ records are bad, and to purists Bach sounds too thick, too soft, when played on an organ built, as most modern organs are, on 19th Century lines. According to Musicraftsman Adler, the clean, transparent tone of the Trio Sonatas derives from the 17th Century-style engineering of the Westminster organ (built by Aeolian-Skinner and equaled in "baroque" tone only by the organs of Wellesley College and the Germanic Museum at Harvard...
...missionary, finally settled in Detroit in 1798. Arriving two years after the U. S. had annexed the Michigan territory, Father Richard was a leader of the village of less than 1,000 a year before its first merchant arrived. The priest brought Michigan its first piano, its first organ (whose pipes Indians stole, returned when they suspected the Great Spirit was angry), its first printing press on which he got out the territory's first newspaper, the Michigan Essay and Impartial Observer. When Detroit burned to the ground in 1805, Father Richard's St. Anne's Church...