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Author: Purd E. Deitz
Born: October 22, 1897, York, Pennsylvania.
Died: After 1968.
Son of Harry William and Ada Gertrude Gilbert Dietz, Purd sang as a boy in the choir at St. James Episcopal Church in York, and later in York’s St. James Episcopal Church. At college, he belonged to both the college choir and glee club. He was educated at Ursinus College, Collegeville, Pennsylvania (AB 1918, DD 1937); Central Theological Seminary, Dayton, Ohio; and the University of Edinburgh (a year of graduate study around 1940).
Ordained in 1921, Dietz married Thisbe Elizabeth Schultz that same year. He served at the Fourth Reformed Church in Dayton, Ohio, for four years, a…
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FINLANDIAIn 1899 Finnish composer Jean Sibelius (b. Hameenlina, Tavastehus, Finland, 1865; Jarvenpaa, near Helsingfors, Finland, 1957) wrote a musical score for six historical tableaux in a pageant that celebrated and supported the Finnish press against Russian oppression. In 1900 Sibelius revised the music…
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