Word: ballads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Believing in music as a soothing method of beginning his vacation, the Vagabond will drag his weary body to Symphony Hall, in Boston, tonight, to hear another program, presented by Serge Koussevitzky and his Boston Symphony Orchestra. Here he may hear two scores by American composers. Chadwick's Ballad. "Tam o'Shanter", and Sessions Symphony in E minor. The closing part of the program will comprise Strauss tone poem, "Death and Transfiguration", and the Dance of Salome from the opera, "Salome...
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...troubadours. "Little naked and impudent songs," he has called his work. Perhaps "greatest living jongleur" would define him better, since he relies so upon borrowed accents, fantastic metres, the dress of other days. Once, at least, has this jongleur been more than little or impudent. He wrote "The Ballad of the Goodly Fere," an account of the Crucifixion by Simon Zelotes, hard-bitten mariner. The Goodly Fere bids his captors let his comrades go, "Or I'll see ye damned" says...
...present do not mingle gracefully. The present is too red-blooded. And so we see a dismal parody of Kipling, a delectable burlesque of Oscar Wilde, and a really amusing, if somewhat overdone, page of history with undergraduate notations, push a bit of Chaucer and a rather dull ballad of a questionable source, from the center of the stage. Now Lampy does not snore so loudly. He knows the present best. But Pity of Pities! The clock ticking backwards leads his mind down into chaotic, confused imaginings. We find Diogenes in a humorous vein. Descartes would die all over again...
Newspaper headlines, ferryboat rides, a visit to her photographer's studio, the radio craze, furnish young Miss Crane with themes for her quaint, circumloquacious cadenzas. She puts pinions on tortoises and sapphires in the eyes of moles. She writes a "Ballad of Valley Forge," and a fine ballad it is, to the tune of "The Eagles They Fly High in Mobile, in Mobile" (or "Drink Her Down"). And sometimes she contemplates the purely inane, just for fun- The ritual and the microtome...