Word: sung
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brahms, Beethoven's "Elegischer Gesang," from Opus 118, and "Nunist das Heil," from Bach's Cantata No. 50. The Glee Club alone will render "Two Choruses for Men's Voices," from Mozart's "Cantatas for the Freemasons," while Loefiller's "By the Waters of Babylon," will be sung by the Choral Society...
...last week the first one ever to canonize on Easter Sunday. As if this were not sufficient glory for Don Bosco (henceforth to be called St. Giovanni Bosco), the Pope used the occasion to give his church the music of a new mass, first in modern style to be sung in St. Peter...
Commissioned last December from Maestro Don Lorenzo Perosi, the mass was sung last week by the famed Sistine Choir which was increased to 100 voices. In the musical sections surrounding this great central act of Roman Catholic faith, such as the Kyrie Eleison, Gloria, Credo, and Agnus Dei, the choir divided, one part taking the melody, the other singing as if in orchestral accompaniment. To assist at this mass with Pius XI as celebrant, 70,000 people jampacked St. Peter's. Among them were the King & Queen of Siam, the Crown Prince of Italy, 20 other European princes...
With a view of getting 5,000 full francs' worth of song, the Academy stipulated that the winning hymn must last from twelve to 15 minutes and be scored for four to eight mixed voices and a full orchestra. This remarkable paean will be sung in June at the Grand Festival of Bordeaux before no less a connoisseur than President Albert Lebrun...
...service if it closes with the noble strains of the 'Te Deum,' a confession of faith as well as an ascription of praise. It is also possible to have other lofty New Testament hymns such as the 'Magnificat' and the 'Gloria in Excelsis' sung by the entire congregation after some training. . . . The aim is not entertainment but worship: to teach hymns in which men hear the voice of the Eternal; hymns that awaken the spirit of 'wonder, love and praise'; that . . . drive out weak, shoddy, self-centered songs that too often...