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sounds, like the final t's and p's. It's hard to describe on paper, but you can listen for it in any group of Waring singers. It's as individual as Fred's signature on a letter. To watch him work with a class can be an inspiring thing. He might not like me to tell this incident, but it points up what I mean. A new, young minister who was preaching at a nearby church last summer, came to watch the classes one weekday. Fred was coaching "The Holy City," explaining to the class how the words should be divided into tone syllables to bring out their full beauty and rhythm. Somewhere along the way he seemed to feel they were losing the meaning of the words and were getting lost in technique. no you realize what these words are meant to convey?" he asked suddenly. "Do you yourselves understand their real meaning? Remember, the man who wrote this had seen this Holy City, this wonderful place, and he was filled with the beauty of it. Can you express that to others in your singing?" And he went on to show them how. The class that day was unusually responsive, and the singing became a really beautiful thing, so that all of us were greatly affected by it. When the session was over, and the minister was introduced to Fred, he expressed what I guess we were all thinking. "Thank you, Mr. Waring," he said, "for a wonderful sermon." Many of the Pennsylvanians' recordings are made during the summer at Shawnee, in the old town hall which houses the fire department and a children's playschool, started by Fred. Children who visit the Inn with their parents, and youngsters belonging to members of the group who stay at Shawnee for the summer, are a very lucky lot. They have supervised play hours in a well-equipped room, complete with its own kitchen for hot lunches, and they have an outdoor playground and wading and swimming pools. Fred is a wonderful story-teller, and his laugh is so hearty that it makes you feel good to hear it. He loves to sing, is partial to certain hymns, and will love a song because it has one beautiful phrase in it that appeals to him. He always likes a few of the new songs as they come out, thinks "You'll Never Walk Alone" is one of the most deeply moving things he has ever heard. I guess everyone knows that he wrote the GE theme song, with the notes G and E repeated, and that he's the composer of "I Hear Music," another of our themes. Last year he did a song for the 4H Clubs, called "A Place in the Sun." He's tremendously interested in 4H and the Boy Scouts. His respect for the Scouts goes back to his admiration for his scoutmaster in Tyrone, when he was in the drum and bugle corps, and his love for music was encouraged. That encouragement, of course, was an extension of the fine musical atmosphere that Mother and Father Waring had created for the children at home. Fred, in turn, has passed all that along to us. 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