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When Richard Dyer-Bennet sang at Cabot Hall last week, he wore a tuxedo. He had no raucous accent, no sack of coonskin tales, and his shoes and his guitar were clean. While Dyer-Bennet was less colorful than the night-club hand, he was more effective because he was a musician with folk-song only as part of his repertoire...
Poet Robert Frost will also come to Radcliffe for a speech on Wednesday, April 12, in the Cabot Hall living room. Dean Small said she also hoped to bring Richard Dyer-Bennet to Radcliffe in May for a program of Ballads...
...sale last week in limited editions. A new company called Concert Hall Society, Inc. announced that it would turn out only 2,000 copies of its albums. For $105, Concert Hall promised twelve albums of previously unrecorded music by Henry Purcell, Beethoven (Scottish Songs, sung by Balladeer Richard Dyer-Bennet), Brahms, Stravinsky, Béla Bartók and others...
...Richard Dyer-Bennet: Love Songs (Disc, 6 sides). Wistful love, Elizabethan style. Guitarist Dyer-Bennet's six songs include Westryn Wind and Blow the Candles Out ("Roll me in your arms, love"). Performance: excellent...
Next came folk singers Josh (One Meat Ball) White, Burl (Blue Tail Fly) Ives and Woody (Ballads from the Dust Bowl) Guthrie, and jazz purists like Pianist Mary Lou Williams and Saxophonist Coleman Hawkins, and guitar-strumming Balladeer Richard Dyer-Bennet, singing Elizabethan love lyrics. His best sellers: Burl Ives, and an album of American country dances...