Connecticut western news., 1915-12-16
CANAAN CHORUS
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and full of character. We are not put.
 ting on airs ill singing this aria. for
 the name was Bestowed upor us af
 birth. along with other valuabieS, by
 the mistress of the WhitehOuso and we
 are simply recording OFT gratitude Ia
 our gUdmOther, our fairy Gpdmnther.
 We are grateful also to old Sails
 bury; it is gUCd nest for such Il
 "biTd. v His mast sty, Slgnor Paiui, once remarked between beats that the
 normal condition Cf choral societies
 was to be dead btokc, case. suppose.
 of vox ct practeiia niml. If SD, this
 choir is jaunty exception; it is colt that has never Eeel broke. For at
 whatsoever time we have approached
 the dead point. we liLl but to cry out ! tO Salisbury. like Caesar in the Tibs r.
 Help me, Cassius, or 1 sink !' and
 Cashus responded nobly with tue cash.
 He did it again this year, s1 that, with
 certain dimes from the danes anI dens from tine tenOrs, we feel like LOngfel.
 low $ blacksmith, "cau look the whole | world i'll the face," without bat;i2s al ] eye or venting a hemi.dCmi semi quaver We shall attack the SC ire uf 1916 with $llO.45 to the goud aud al though it storm, q every other Monday last season, We do not dread the show CTS of next spring; we have something laid up against rainy day.
 We have made also great drives for attendance. We ale d scattered flock, and some zeulots ere i'll favor of lav ing everybody get engaged SD as to have "steady con pauy" going dnu coming, but, without insisting Ou thls as a sine qua non, we di1 enforce the rules ot the MeGes and Persians as to ab tra initiation to Mark the perfect man and to Marcia the perfect woman. Thirty eight thus attained 100 per cent, 13 missed once, II twice, nine thrice and the Test We're called out be- fore reaching first base. Our menber- ship was thus carried at 14: largest re- heaTsaI. March l, II present: smallest rehearsal, April a6, G present., rhis re- hearsnl being affected by the death f MT. Norton the previous day. A care ful computation shows that. out of
 
 ,355 an average for the season of 1 %. .22l per cent. This is 6 per cent. better than last year. It is better than the record of Gilbert school, Yale uni versity, the Connecticut legislature or the United States senate.
 The Salisbury choir is increasingly impressed with the largeness of the Norfolk idea. its dimensions its dig nifty. it's reach. It began by affecting the moral character of every one of our members, through the cultivation of regularity, attention, subordinatiou to the masses, COL centratiOn on focus, discipline. It proceeds from that time to the traiGing of voice, the establish. ment of correct ear, the enhancement of musical tuste. Still further, it pro. notes in each a desire to please others at personal expense, a sense of con- munity interest and a conviction of the solidarity of Litchfeld county. The Norfolk idea expands the horizon of every one of us, makes us feel the force of that ancient precept, "No man liveth unto himself;" makes us sense the rare pleasure of contributing to the ldDl6 Ol gTedb IudSt6IS anu LU6 WlueT appreciation of genius. It gives each of us that fine sense known as self pro- jection, the art of putting oneself into the soul of the great, of seeing the thing with his eyes, hearing it with his ears, feeling it with lis heart and of interpreting it after him through the medium of melody. No one can feel. ingly sing the "Hallelujah Chorus" without having, as Handel had, deeper sense of the worshiptulness of God. And, finally, this massive chorus, with its still more massive audience attentive and atrent, irresisti- bly, suggests to us all the mystical festivals of the future, revealed by the seer of Patmos:
 "And I heard the voice Tof hampers harping with their harps; and they sung as it were new song; and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand and thousands of thousands "