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Chaplain Frederick W. Hagen had the idea (he is head of the training and planning division of the Office of Chief of Chaplains). Protestant, Jewish and Catholic chaplains chose the 13 popular, nondenominational hymns, added the 23rd Psalm. Some of the hymns: God Will Take Care of You, Faith of Our Fathers, Abide With Me, There's a Church in the Valley, Battle Hymn of the Republic...
Wadsworth reads: "The President's house to dwell in was raised May 24, 1726. No life was lost, no person hurt in raising it...In ye Evening, those who raised ye House had Supper in Ye Hall; after which we sang ye first stave or staff in ye 127 Psalm...
...program should consist of music from various United Nations: China; Britain (represented preferably by German-born Handel's Hallelujah Chorus); France (represented in part by Belgian-born Cesar Franck's Pièce Heroique); Russia (Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky); the U.S. (America the Beautiful, the old European psalm-tune Old Hundred, Home Sweet Home and Ballad for Americans...
...Last Psalm. Three Chaplains are standing over eight khaki-blanketed bodies. The bulldozers stop digging and their drivers uncover as the services begin. But the dozens of tractors on the muddy roads and beaches a few hundred yards away continue their clanking and chuffing...
...Radcliffe Choral Society began the program with Purcell's "Nymphs and Shepards," and then modulated into Bartok's "Don't Leave Me" and "Only Tell Me," and concluded with a rhythmic rendition of Shubert's "False Noble." Continuing with Milhaud's "Psalm CXX," the Harvard Glee Club ended their section with three canons for men's voices by Mozart...