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Sweden's greatest song writer was Carl Michael Bellman (1740-95). To Swedes Bellman's ballads are as familiar as Stephen Foster's are in the U. S. Year ago Hendrik Willem van Loon, literary journeyman, heard some, resolved to investigate the "Anacreon of the North," the "Last of the Troubadours." Last year van Loon and Grace Castagnetta, U. S. pianist spent five months in Sweden, acquainting themselves with Bellman's background and with the Swedish language which, in his songs, is almost untranslatably idiomatic. This week they published the result: 20 songs, with piano accompaniment...
Wednesday Evening, June 7 *Triumphal March from "Aida"Verdi *Overture to "Anacreon" Chernbini *Minuet (for String Orchestra) Bolzoni *"Madam Butterfly," Fantasia Puccini "Manhattan" Colla Midday--Night Shadows--Playtime (Conducted by the Composer) *Air, "Coleste Aida," from "Aida" Verdi Soloist: DARIO MAIANI, Tenor "Italia," Rhapsody Casella *Malaguena Lecuona *Perpetuum Mobile Paganini Played by the combined string sections *Spanish Dance de Falla *Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square...
Arturo Toscanini (Sat. 3:30 p.m., NBC-Blue) conducts at the first International Music Festival at Villa Triebschen, Lake Lucerne, in Maria Luigi Cherubini's Anacreon Overture, Johannes Brahms's Third Symphony, Felix Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony, Richard Wagner's Die Meistersinger Prelude...
...Anacreon in Heav'n, where he sat in full
Sirs: ... In Texas that tune is not "Working on the Railroad," except in the sense that "America" is ''God Save the King" and "The Star Spangled Banner" is "Anacreon in Heaven." It is "The Eyes of Texas." There was a president of the University of Texas [William L. Prather-ED.], a generation ago, whose pet admonition to the undergraduates was, "Remember, the eyes of Texas are upon you." A collegian [John Lang Sinclair- ED. J to express irreverent student sentiment toward the repetitious phrase, wrote certain words to a popular air, and loudly a group of young...