Word: ballads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...covered about 3000 miles during the tour and ended up with a lot of enthusiasm at Babylon, Long Island, September 11. When things were going rather discouragingly in the middle of the summer on account of the weather, J. L. Shuke, formerly of "47" Workshop, composed a ballad which we all added to and modified during the tour. It was sung during our wanderings on the highway and was really quite inspiring. Set to the tune of Columbia, Gem of the Ocean', it goes as follows...
...works by six composers of six different countries will be played: De Falla's marionette opera, El Retablo de Maese Pedro, Sibelius' Tapiola, Casella's Scarlatina, Honegger's Phaedre, Ernst Hallfter's Spanish Suite, a symphony by Austin George Antheil, Milhaud's Ballad for Piano and Orchestra. Soloists will be Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Efrem Zimbalist, Alfred Cortot, Albert Spalding, Paul Kochanski, Rudolf Laubenthal, Dusolina Giannini, Elsa Alsen, Walter Gieseking, John Charles Thomas, Pablo Casals, Josef Szigeti, Alfredo Casella, Darius Milhaud, Lewis Richards, Georges Barrere, Mischa Mischakov...
Professor Elton will talk about Macpherson and his first champion, Bishop Perey of ballad fame, in Harvard 6 at 9 o'clock this morning, which is reason enough for me to get up early...
...music. In the U. S., the human voice is more than this-it is the foundation of a great and prosperous trade. Behind the famous opera stars and song recitalists (the Rothschilds, the Astorbilts of their profession) there is a vast soviet of vocal students, church sopranos, ballad singers, cabaret songsters, 50,000 professional singers, male and female, and 250,000 assorted aspirants. Until recently the vocal industry was without a trade journal, but a fortnight ago the first issue of Singing, The Voice Magazine (Alfred Human,* Editor) appeared on the newsstands, was eagerly bought and discussed by the practitioners...
...Program follows: Weber Overture to "Euryanthe" Debussy "Prelude a 1' apresmidi d'un Faun." Dukas "L' Apprenti Sorcier" Tchaikovsky Symphony No. six in B minor Scheizo, After a Ballad by Goethe