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...weeks ago a cable was sent Harvardmen Joseph Siegel, Milton Wiener, Clifford Washburn, and Homer Chase who are fighting in the war-torn area. Received yesterday from the volunteers: "Wish you great success in attempt to emulate last year's humanitarian venture...
From Vienna. In Manhattan's big Carnegie Hall-a bit too big for their frail, clear trebles and altos-last week 20 Wiener Sängerknaben, aged 10 to 12, began a U. S. tour which will take them to the west coast and back. The Vienna Singing Boys, famed 439-year-old choir from Austria's old imperial palace give U. S. audiences Dixie and the Star-Spangled Banner in English, chaste church music, operettas in which they rouge and dress up as laundresses, guardsmen, 18th Century gentlemen and ladies...
...great. Unlike Deems Taylor, who earns money by writing and radio work, unlike John Alden Carpenter, a Chicago businessman who made money in mill, railway & ship supplies, most of his life Gruenberg has been a poor musician with an occasional patron. One of these was Mrs. Alma Morgenthau Wiener, sister of the Secretary of the Treasury, whose financial arrangements with him got into the courts three years ago, when it became known that they had counted-unsuccessfully so far-on selling The Emperor Jones in Hollywood. To Composer Gruenberg and others like him, last week's Lake Placid award...
...wrote his first symphony as a memorial to Theodore Roosevelt. Last summer he completed a Requiem Mass for his mother. At its world premiere in Vienna last week, the performers alone would have made it notable. A chorus from the Society of the Friends of Music united with the Wiener Sängerknaben Choir to sing with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. As leading soprano, Dusolina Giannini soloed eloquently for her dead mother...
...Wiener Sängerknaben are one of the oldest Christian choirs still singing, the choir of the Pius X School of Liturgical Music is one of the newest. The school was founded by a stylish little woman named Mrs. Justine Bayard Ward, 57-year-old sister of the late Senator Bronson Cutting. In London, at 25, she became a Roman Catholic. Profoundly interested in Catholic liturgy, she studied at the Benedictine school in Solesmes which Pius X, then Pope, considered the best school of plain song extant. In 1918 she gave $100,000 to build a liturgical school in Manhattan...