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...Poetry Corner: Ballad for Americans; God's Trombones...
...mournful, melodious song, The Ballad of the German Soldier's Bride, has been haunting BBC's short-wave listeners in Germany. The words are by Bavarian Bert Brecht, the music by Polish Mischa Spoliansky. It is sung by two voices. English translation...
Players' Club artistes entertained Sir Max with nostalgic Victorian music-hall ballads. Hit of the evening was The Ballad of Sam Hall, which ends: "An' I'll see you all in 'ell, an' I 'opes you frizzle well-damn your eyes...
Last week London publishers' sales of printed music had risen 40 to 60% above the pre-war normal. A sentimental, serious ballad, I'll Walk Beside You, has sold 750,000 copies-more than twice the biggest popular-song sale. The only slump has been in the songs and dance tunes peddled by Charing Cross Road (London's Tin Pan Alley). Phonograph companies, doing a 60% above normal business, cannot cope with the increased demand for classical disks. Most spectacular rise of all-400%-has been in the sales of miniature scores (pocket-size reductions of symphonic...
This big Prom season is also a testimony to the labors of grey-bearded Conductor Sir Henry Wood, 73. Sir Henry, a born Londoner who drops his haitches, is a British Walter Damrosch. He started the Proms as glorified ballad concerts, raised them gradually during 48 years to a symphonic level, is credited with doing as much as any man could to make Britons music-minded. Said the London Times last fortnight by way of tribute: "He met wars with dogged persistence, changes of taste with a willing compliance. . . . We set our watches by his arrival on the rostrum...