Word: folk-songs
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...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...
This isn't news, but there are several things that should be said about Aaron Copland's lecture, "Jazz and Folk-Song Influences" on modern American music which he gave several weeks ago. In dealing with the development of jazz, Mr. Copland made one assertion which rubbed our fur the wrong way--a statement which seems so basic and misleading as to call for a rebuttal...
...greatest U. S. composer. His cheering section insists that he is. Of all U. S. composers, Roy Harris is the one who does the most brooding and the heaviest word-slinging about what he writes. Last week Cleveland heard the first complete performance of his Folk-Song Symphony for orchestra and chorus, which he wrote "to bring about a cultural cooperation and understanding between the highschool, college and community cho ruses of our cities and their symphony orchestras [which] are frequently too remote socially from their community." Composer Harris wrote his symphony last winter, had part of it performed...
...Folk-Song Symphony made good listening, moved Critic Herbert Elwell of the Plain Dealer to write: "Forty-five minutes swept by like a second and left one listener with the excited consciousness of having heard something like the American continent rising up and saying hello. This music is nothing...
...Purcell catches, for example, are neat, sparkling little pieces written to rollicking texts, which require a certain amount of editing for relatively prudish modern audiences. Lawton's arrangement of Casey Jones is a remarkably clever composition, and The Old Maid's Song, a Kentucky mountain folk-song, has a text and a lilting melody which ensure its success in spite of a rather unimaginative setting...