Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soon as churchgoing ears become educated enough to recognize irreligious music when they hear it, "pieces like the popular setting of The Lord's Prayer, a ballad as voluptuous as anything in Faust, will cease to be bestsellers; organists will cease to play as voluntaries pieces that would do very well as background for Hollywood erotica." Purist Gore's plea: "0 sing unto the Lord a new song...
Nevertheless, in the grey, red-&-gold Burg chapel, where once the Emperor followed Mass, Viennese still congregate every Sunday, and they are joined-in cosmopolitan peace-by some occupation officers who have a taste for prayer and music. There, violins and the sweet young voices of the Sängerknaben still make the most beautiful music in the honor of God that is made anywhere...
...most people still believe in God, prayer, or an afterlife...
...Prayer. "Nearly three men out of five, and more than one woman in five, say they never pray outside [church]. Identical proportions of the more and less educated say they pray...
Dean Sperry will offer an opening prayer, following which Philip M. Stern '47 and Herbert MacArthur '45 will deliver the Class Oration and Class Poem respectively. Ivy Orator Peter W. Fay '45 will then make the traditional humorous address to the Class...