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Particularly worthy of attention as an excellent example of dramatic a capella composition is Milhand's Psaume. This begins with a low bass note that is almost like a growl in its quiet intensity. There follows a rapid swell as the baritones rush upward, and the tenors break in with a quick, nervous melody. Soon all the parts join in to carry on the thread of the words until the voices suddenly blend in a soft chord on the word "Jerusalem...
...then his wife, asking that there be "no sadness, no mourning and no ceremony" after his death. Now the wife of Director Anatole Litvak, Cinemactress Hopkins last week gathered with other Parker friends in a Hollywood funeral parlor, "just to sit around," she said, "and talk about what a swell...
Students here think that would be just swell...
Said Chief O'Neill, coldly: "After the glory of the Morro Castle, two years as an ordinary patrolman must have seemed pretty dull. An ambitious man might think it would be pretty swell to be the lieutenant in charge...
...audience are often dummy pipes good only to look at.) The Bach facsimile requires from one-third t01/20th the wind pressure demanded by a modern organ, and has a correspondingly limpid quality of tone. Unlike the modern organ it cannot increase or diminish the volume of tone. The "swell" mechanism of the modern organ was invented in England in 1712, was not used in continental Europe until long after Bach's death. Bach was such a master of musical architecture that he could create the illusion of swell without any mechanical...