Word: appalachian
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...vast arable U.S. earth and the vaster sky over it, one man might stand as an epitome of the task and the hopes which the hungry world has placed upon some six million U.S. farmers, the great mass of whom, like him, live between the Rocky and the Appalachian Mountains. He is Gustav Theodore Kuester (rhymes with Easter...
This week the Library of Congress, a new entry in the record market, was selling, as fast as they could be processed, five unbreakable vinylite albums ($6 and $7 each) of Lomax-collected blues, "hollers," Appalachian ballads and sacred songs. As in the first six albums, released by the Library in February 1943, the voices had a native vitality that few nightclub singers could match, though some of the records had the noisy roughness of performances made far from recording studios...
...sufficient. Saturday night's performance of the "Eroica," the Overture Number Three to Leonora, and Copland's suite for ballet, Appalachian Spring, showed both the prime virtues and the great defects of the performances at Symphony Hall. Aside from the magnificent discipline and precision of the entire group, especially the strings, Koussevitzky's faithful adherence to the production of new music is the outstanding advantage of Boston. But there is an element of fatigue in Dr. Koussevitzky's approach to the great traditional works of the symphonic repertoire; he has done them a number of times...
Though she sings 20 ballads an evening, she seldom repeats one in a night of performances. Besides the southern Appalachian songs which she learned at singing gatherings in North Carolina, she sings Old English, Irish and Scottish ballads which Susie digs out of the public-library music room. She comes from a ballad-singing family (papa is acting overseas with a camp show), and Susie learned to pluck her harp and zither at home. Her mother is an executive of the American Theater Wing...
Last week she found herself virtually a popular success. She brought to Manhattan her Appalachian Spring, a pleasant, good-humored ballet with no hidden meaning at all. It was danced on a stark black-draped stage relieved only by the skeletal framework of a house. What was happening in this newest Graham dance-drama (to Aaron Copland's alternately gay and poignant Pulitzer prize score) was comprehensible even to the bored businessman: a bride (Graham) and her groom (Erick Hawkins) built their house in the clearing of a Pennsylvania forest; they had a baby; they entertained a band...