Word: requiems
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...Bolivar a foremost place among the great of the world." The world last week honored Bolivar as follows: U. S.: President Hoover sent a message, Secretary of State Stimson laid a wreath at the Pan American Union building in Washington. In New York, Patrick Cardinal Hayes officiated at a requiem high mass. Most of the Latin American Consuls and a gentleman by the name of Emilio C. Diaz who claims official recognition as the last Tao or King of Chibcha Indians of Colombia, buried the base of Central Park's Bolivar statue under wreaths. Great Britain: Members...
...thus contributed to Harvard has been reciprocated, in part, by the contributions of the Harvard and Radcliffe Glee Clubs to the Symphony. Since 1923, when the Harvard Glee Club first sang with the orchestra, they have both contributed vocal parts to such notable programs as Brahms' "Ein Deutches Requiem" and Beethoven's Ninth Symphony...
...marching to a plain white two-story frame house just off the road at Silver Spring, Md. (Washington suburb) where "Mother" Jones lay bedridden, boisterous. Among her pillows in the friendly home of Walter Burgess, she was ready for Death. She had arranged for her high requiem mass at St. Gabriel's Church in Washington, her interment at Mt. Olive, Ill. Still matriarchal, still organ-voiced, she said as her great anniversary approached: "A five-day week and a six-hour day would mean work for everybody. . . . I've had a lot of chance to think lately...
...stand for attention and, instead of two trifling Mendelssohn pieces listed on the program, played with his Philharmonic-Symphony the tremendous, soaring funeral march from Wagner's Götterdämmerung. In Philadelphia, St. Louis, Berlin and a score more music centres, were similar scenes and sounds, a world-wide requiem by Wagner...
...selection tonight will be the "Liebeslieder." In the final performance on Wednesday night the Glee Club singers will appear alone in "Rhapsody." In their first two appearances the choruses rendered the "Song of Fate" and "A German Requiem...