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...Cedar Rapids, Iowa, a choir of twelve women sang Nearer, My God, to Thee at an honorary memorial service for Fanny Crosby, hymn writer. The youngest of these women was Mrs. Emma Ankeny, 74; the oldest Mrs. Mary Burke, 92; average age of the twelve...
...Chanson a Baire" dedicated to the Club by Monsleu Poulenc, and "Tribulationes" by Virgil Thomson '22, now an assistant in the Music Department. The latter, though essentially modern, retains throughout the spirit of the 15th Century, the words being taken from an anthem in a collection of the Vatlean Choir...
...builder of St. Paul's. Everyone, perhaps including the Dean himself, seized eagerly upon this suggestion. Even a diminutive and far from prominent member of the famed St. Paul's choristers got hold of the idea and made a rhyme about it which he passed around at choir practice behind the cover of a fat hymnbook. It seemed very funny because everyone was supposed to be so solemn...
...considered. The President wished to present and press a bill approved by the Army.* ¶ Mr. and Airs. Coolidge attended the dedication of the Washington Community Christmas tree, opened voluminous mail, received numerous presents, attended church, heard choral singing at the north portico of the White House by the choir of the First Congregational Church: Bells of Christmas, The First Noel, Sleep, Holy Babe, Angels We Have Heard on High, Silent Night, Holy Night, Shepherd's Christmas Song, God Rest You Merry Gentlemen, Come All Ye Shepherds, O Little Town of Bethlehem, The Babe in Bethlehem's Manger...
...water and blessed towels, to scour and scrub and dry the aperture. Came a thunderous peal of joy from the bells of St. Peter's, echoed at once all over Rome by 400 other church belfries. The Pope stood erect on his throne and chanted thanksgiving. The Sistine choir burst into the sublime music of Palestrina. It was the Holy Year, the 23rd Jubilee of Roman Catholicism, now at last begun...