Word: singed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Marine Corps does not sing Christmas carols. When it is Christmas in the Marine Corps, "the toughest soldiers in the world" on foreign duty sometimes startle the natives by dressing a Christmas tree under the tropic sun, or?as in Nicaragua last year?by knocking together a make-believe chimney out of packing boxes, filling the "hearth" with tinsel for fire, and hanging up their biggest socks to be stuffed with joke presents. But hardboiled fighting men on the outer marches of the U. S. Empire have little use for hymns of peace. More likely are they to drown...
Carol, "Christmas Song" arranged by Holst Carol, "Now Let Us Sing" Holst Motet, "Presentation of Christ in the Temple" Eccard Congregational Hymn, "Adeste Fideles...
Excellent use is made of a capable chorus throughout the show. The occasion when it is most effective is the Christmas scene in the trenches. One hears the Italian soldiers sing "Stillige Nacht" across the battle-fields to their German opponents and the latter reply. Doubtful as the authenticity of this scene may be, it comes as close to real beauty as the talkies have yet approached, and it is especially unfortunate that poor reproduction spoils the singing in several places...
Tonight at 8.15 o'clock the Harvard Glee Club will sing in Symphony Hall. The Radcliffe Choral Society and 70 members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra will assist...
...special chorus of 50 will sing six "Liebeslieder' and "Neuesliebeslieder" by Brahms. The program also includes "Antiphon Number Five from Five Mystical Songs" composed by R. Vaughan Williams, and concludes with "Cantata Number 50", for double chorus and orchestra, by Bach...