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Three men approached the boy, the president of the society and two experienced Kapellmeisters, or choirmasters. In the presence of all the members the boy was given a difficult anthem, which he was invited to set to music in four parts. He was then led by a beadle into an adjoining room, and the door locked. There the boy set to work on his composition.
You sat in the warm yellow glow of Oscar's lamp and were regaled with everything from the Swedish National Anthem to Mischa Elman's tenderest crooning.
"In the first place, a most exquisite anthem was sung by a trained choir. It struck me, of course being a stranger in the place with considerable astonishment to hear voices like those one naturally expects to hear only in great churches or concerts, at such a meeting as this.
There let the pealing organ blow, To the full-voiced choir below, In service high and anthem clear, As may with sweetness through mine ear Dissolve me into ecstacies, And bring all heaven before mine eyes. So builds itself up, in a thousand complex and complicated forms, the Priestly Lie.
Emily drew the veil entirely over her face, and, in a momentary pause, between the anthem and the rest of the service, her sobs were distinctly audible. The holy father began the service, and Emily again commanded her feelings, till the coffin was let down, and she heard the earth rattle on its lid.
The fellow was instantly seized and the stick wrested from his grasp, while he was conveyed to the nearest police-station. The Queen drove home, and was able to show herself the same evening at the Opera, where she was received with the singing of the National Anthem and great cheering. The offender was neither a boy nor of humble rank.
We could sing my Latin song together he would take the bass; and in three hours I should make of him a convert to my political ideas." "Indeed? Shall I mention that you wish to see him?" "No, I believe not," said Sir Asinus; "I am busy at present." "At what yawning?" "No, you fop! I am framing a national anthem for the violin." "Tune the 'Exile's Return, eh?" "Base scoffer! But what news?"
The anthem was good after sermon, being the fifty-first psalme, made for five voices by one of Captain Cooke's boys, a pretty boy. And they say there are four or five of them that can do as much. And here I first perceived that the King is a little musicall, and kept good time with his hand all along the anthem. Up into the gallery after sermon and there I met Creed.
We proclaim that the kingdom of God is nigh you, and while a Babel, as you say, of private opinions, of passionate complaints, of despairing cries afflicts the silence, one serene voice rises, 'Come unto Me, all ye that are weary and heavy laden, and after that sole voice rings out the twofold choral anthem of praise, 'Rejoice, O earth, for thy King is come'; and of prayer, 'Thy kingdom come.
It was as if they were saying: "We are not persecuted under this flag. At last we have found a home." Love for America blazed up in my soul. I shouted to the musicians, "My Country," and the cry spread like wildfire. The musicians obeyed and we all sang the anthem from the bottom of our souls
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