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...running an annex, the Abbaye, that he calls his "laughing place." There he can feed 300 at a banquet, and there he enjoys tinkering with a stereo system on which he plays schmalzy love songs and a $10,000 automated organ that booms out John Philip Sousa marches. Occasionally he even sings for the customers...
...performances by the Harvard Concert Band? Thursday's concert-the band's sole concert this year-included works by Stravinsky and Copland and a world premiere, yet Sanders Theater seemed cavernous and bare because of the lack of the size of the crowd. Perhaps people expect only to hear Sousa marches and Harvard songs at a band concert. After all, that's what they hear at football games, where world premieres are rare indeed...
SANDERS THEATER. Harvard University Band, works of Bernstein, Sousa, and Anderson...
...Sousa Touch. Taylor's paraphrase (which does not carry his name anywhere in the current edition) was not always so popular. It took him seven years -from 1955 to 1962-to finish the New Testament Epistles, working nightly in one of the farmhouse's bedrooms and in the mornings on the commuter train to Chicago. Living Letters, he called them. But even the very firm he directed, Moody Press, declined to publish his paraphrases. So Taylor decided to publish them privately. A printer friend ran off 2,000 copies on credit, and Taylor took some of them...
...Taylor makes the allusion more straightforward: "I am not even worthy to be his slave." In the Book of Daniel, when Nebuchadnezzar makes a gold image and orders people to worship it when they hear the sounds of "horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp," Taylor offers instead a touch of Sousa: "When the band strikes up." Despite such lapses, Taylor's Bible is easy to read and remarkably understandable...