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...musician, which was how the young Moore got his start in the entertainment business - first as a chorister and organist in his parish church in Dagenham, near London, then to Oxford on a scholarship as an organist. In 1960 Moore was recruited for a comic accompanist's gig on the seminal London-to-Broadway four-man comedy review Beyond the Fringe, which starred the lanky British comic Peter Cook. Moore and Cook hit it off, and an odd-couple collaboration was born that put the little man on the path to Hollywood stardom...
...hardy ensemble solemnly belts out a robust ode to the forces of nature as icicles form on their whiskers. "Finnmark lad, you found your grave/Out on the awesome wave ..." Their songs are interspersed, as the seasons change, with glimpses into individual lives. The men - among them an agnostic church organist, a reformed drug addict and a bellicose communist - are kindly and ornery, childlike and cynical, flirty and stern. The camera lingers over small details: as one man bemoans his political passivity, his kettle boils furiously. Jensen is an ennobler who cushions and elevates moments of personal vulnerability with footage...
...other. Schulz's phrase "security blanket," and his ideas about that most American of concepts, happiness, found their way into Webster's dictionary and "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations." The names and subversive attributes of his characters filtered into the counterculture of the '60s; the Grateful Dead's defiantly grubby organist, Ron McKernan, was nicknamed Pig Pen; another San Francisco rock band that formed in 1966 called itself Sopwith Camel. As American soldiers stenciled Snoopy onto their helmets and the Apollo 10 astronauts christened their command module Charlie Brown and their lunar landing vehicle Snoopy, Schulz left his imprimatur...
Tonight at 8 p.m. in Sanders Theatre, the choir will perform Mass in D by John Knowles Paine, accompanied by the Mozart Society Orchestra. Although Paine was the first University organist and choirmaster, serving from 1862 until 1906, his Mass has never been performed on campus...
...funny way this concert epitomizes the new and the old," says Murray Forbes Somerville, the current University organist and choirmaster. "It's a Harvard piece that has never been performed at Harvard...