Word: ballade
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soon as churchgoing ears become educated enough to recognize irreligious music when they hear it, "pieces like the popular setting of The Lord's Prayer, a ballad as voluptuous as anything in Faust, will cease to be bestsellers; organists will cease to play as voluntaries pieces that would do very well as background for Hollywood erotica." Purist Gore's plea: "0 sing unto the Lord a new song...
...memory of a 32nd: Trombonist Glenn Miller, their former leader, who was killed 2½ years ago in a plane crash over the English Channel. The band still carried around Miller's custom-made trombone. Last week crowds who jammed into the huge casino heard the familiar sweet ballad style-a clear, wan clarinet leading a throaty quartet of saxophones in the melody, backed by a powerhouse of brass-that had once made Glenn Miller the No. 1 jukebox favorite...
...auto came along and the state put paved highways through the Ramapos. Soon the woods were full of artists, Boy Scouts, welfare workers, summer cottages. A mountain man couldn't sing a ballad to himself, like "If life was a thing that money could buy, The rich would live and the poor would die," without somebody pouncing on it as something wonderful that was 500 years old and came straight from England...
...remainder of the evening WHCN will present a new kind of marathon show, this one known as Ballad Orgy, which will put on display about all the folk records in Cambridge plus any live talent that happens to drop around...
...Wallace Woodworth '24 will lead the chorus through a variety of offerings, covering the whole scope of the year's Glee Club activities, which may range from sixteenth century motifs to modern pieces in the lighter vein. "Casey Jones," familiar American railroad ballad, and "Spanish Ladies," a rollicking arrangement of an English sea chantey, will highlight the latter category...