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Other awards: Poet Robert Frost, for The Witness Tree; Esther Forbes, for her history, Paul Revere; Historian Samuel Eliot Morison, for his biography, Admiral of the Ocean Sea, a life of Columbus; Composer William Schuman, for Secular Cantata, No. 2, A Free Song...
When Dr. Koussevitsky raised his baton for the world premiere of William Schumann's second secular cantata, "A Free Song," the combined Radcliffe and Harvard choirs had a bare three weeks of rehearsal behind them; the baritone soloists had three days. Yet the technical difficulties of the music had all been mastered, the opening dissonance was clean, the final "We Hear Liberty" rang out, and with very few and minor exceptions the performance was all that could have been expected. There was no lack of smoothness, maturity, etc, by the non-professional choruses "to be made up by their vigor...
...declared. "But all such movements of retreat inward from a too-difficult outer world bring with them an attendant peril--a willingness to divorce religion from the fabric of culture and the course of history, leaving the ordering of civilization as a whole in the charge of candidly secular forces...
...tended to concede it as its distinctive bailiwick. Such a task would seem to be its most effective contribution to national morale." However, Dean Sperry warned of the danger of divorcing religion from the fabric of culture and the course of history, thereby leaving the ordering of civilization to secular forces...
...Roman Catholics are still well below their quota. Some bishops are short of secular clergy and so are not assigning enough priests for Army work. To ease the shortage, monks are being used. But Catholics have 200 applications on hand, expect to make up their deficit by Christmas. > There is a desperate shortage of Negro chaplains. The Army needs 70 as soon as it can get them, can use many more...