A piece about this event opens with amorphous ostinati from a Distant Choir of muted horn, chimes, harp, piano, strings, as Te Deum is intoned in unison.
A piece about this event opens with amorphous ostinati from a Distant Choir of muted horn, chimes, harp, piano, strings, as Te Deum is intoned in unison. Frank Bridge's Lament for Catherine, aged 9 was inspired by this event. Workmen reacting to this event whistled a hymn played on barrel organ at a Third Ave El station, according to Charles Ives. "Sweet By and By" emerges from chaos in his piece about this event in Orchestral Set No.Â 2, From Hanover Square North. Jess Sechrist's song "remembering" this event opens "America once more is in (*) battle array." Two weeks after this event, Charles McCarron and Nat Vincent wrote a song that begins "The nation is sad as can be / A message has come over the sea." Songs after this event reveal neutral America's shift away from pacifism. For 10 points, name this 1915 event in which a German U-boat destroyed a British ocean liner.
A piece about this event opens with amorphous ostinati from a Distant Choir of muted horn, chimes, harp, piano, strings, as Te Deum is intoned in unison.
sinking of the RMS Lusitania [accept equivalents; prompt on World War I; do not accept "US entry into World War I"]