Word: balladeer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...World Turned Upside Down" was played by the bands of the allied armies when Cornwall is surrendered at Yorktown. Thomas Paine, who composed the ballad "Liberty Tree" was also the author of "Common Sense" and "The Rights of Man". "The Battle of the Kegs", written by Francis Hopkinson, signer of the Declaration of Independence, provided a hilarious interlude for the distressing winter at Valley Forge...
...Author, Howard Phelps Putnam, 37, Yaleman, was brought up on a farm in Harvard, near Boston. Like his hero Bill, he has wandered. He first became known to literary critics for his "Ballad of a Strange Thing," which appeared in the American Caravan in 1927. After the publication of Trine in 1927 Epicist Putnam went West, lived in Santa Fe, became closely associated with New Mexico's connoisseur Senator Bronson Cutting. He now lives in Sandy Springs, Md., is interested in senatorial politics, is engaged in composing some of the major narrative portions of his poem...
...vocal numbers. After these the University singers will render three English folksongs, "Gentle Johnny," "The Foggy Dew", and "Spanish Ladies", "Der Gang Gang zum Liebschen", by Brahms, and Choruses from Gilbert and Sullivan's "Mikado". Following another group of songs by Miss Vreeland, the Club will sing "Border Ballad" by William and excerpts from Faure's "Requiem...
...Odyssean poem." he ventured, "seems to be the work of one man, highly literate and a great poet." Contrary-minded professors fear that the works of "Homer" are an ancient hash, comprising the efforts of several great poets and ballad singers, not all of them literate...
...pleases the client is a radio success, Alice Joy is made. She sings over one of the biggest hook-ups in a series which will cost Prince Albert approximately $1,000,000. Her songs, like Minstrel Downey's, are of the mellow, persuasive sort. An occasional old-fashioned ballad supposedly represents the real Alice Joy. a simple, ruddy-cheeked, home-loving girl who adores flowers and ivy-covered churches...