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...hungry '20s. The artfully threadbare orchestration gives them a kind of tawdry elegance, as of faded Viennese waltzes with indecisive endings. Among the best: Pirate Jenny, appealingly rasped by Composer Weill's widow, Lotte Lenya,* dreaming of an escape from drudgery by joining a pirate crew; the Ballad of Dependency, in which Comedienne Charlotte Rae derides Macheath's virility...
...plans to do more. On the fifth level lies what is perhaps the library's greatest showpiece: the Woodberry Poetry Room. Here, surrounded by the supreme effort of Lamont's interior decorators, is the library's fast-growing collection of records and tapes--covering quite completely the fields of ballad and verse, with a good number of dramatic readings thrown in. The tape collection, as yet uncatalogued, includes a number of lectures and readings given at the University in the past few years, and is increasing in size from day to day. McNiff hopes to draw more attention...
...Round Rock.Texas (pop. 1,400) would probably never have had a jail if Sam Bass, the train robber, had not come to town on July 19, 1878 to hold up the Williamson County Bank. "Sam Bass," in the words of a mournful cowboy ballad, "was born in Indiana, it was his native home, and at the age of seventeen he first began to roam; he come way out to Texas a cowboy fur to be, and a kinder-hearted feller you'd seldom ever see." Kind-hearted or not, Bass was laid for by the citizens of Round Rock...
...nightclub belt: a theoretical physicist who turns out tunes on the side. Tom Lehrer, tall, lean, 25, strode purposefully to the piano, peered into the crowd through horn-rimmed glasses, and launched into what Variety called "a comedy of terrors." He would, he said, sing an "ancient Irish ballad, written a few years ago." He turned to the keys, drummed out a melancholy accompaniment, and in a sardonic voice began to sing. Sample lyric...
While there are many chances for group singing and novelty numbers, "Ad Man Out" gives little opportunity for any of its performers to test their voices in songs that require a broad range. In the one real ballad, "As Long As You're in Love," Allison displays a fine natural tenor. The other voices, though not outstanding are more than good enough to put across lyrics which can stand by themselves...