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...been sentenced to life imprisonment in Texas. At John Lomax' request Governor James V. Allred granted Baker a furlough to tour as a minstrel, visit penitentiaries in Mississippi, Florida, South Carolina, Virginia, sing his songs so that other convicts will understand what Lomax wants for his folk-song files in the Library of Congress...
Judges in the final contest, which 15,000 New Yorkers went to hear and see, were Dr. Spaeth, Alfred Emanuel Smith and Luther Corwin Steward, a Washington folk-song collector. Al Smith may have felt a sympathy with the Blessed Sacrament Lyceum Quartet of Queens which arrived in red, purple, green and yellow striped bathing suits, sang I've Been Working on the Railroad and Mandy Lee. But he and his colleagues unanimously liked best the Bay City Four (a teacher, a cashier, a clerk, a statistician) from Brooklyn. These young singers slicked their hair over their foreheads...
Died. Jacob Koppel Sandier, 74, composer of Eili, Eili, famed Jewish lament (often thought to be an old folk-song), oldtime choirmaster and musician in East Side Manhattan theatres; in Brooklyn, N. Y. Composed in 1896 for a Yiddish play, the song attained great popularity, but Mr. Sandier did not copyright it until 1919, never received more than a tithe of his rightful royalties...
...Program I. Gloria in Excelsis Palestrina The Three Kings Romeu The Wall of Heaven O Saviour Rend (Motet) Brahms II. Fum! Fum! Fum (Catalonian Folk-song) arranged by Schindler Australian Up-Country Song Percy Grainger Now is the Month of Maying Morley Wassail Song arranged by Vaughan Williams III. Sing Ye to the Lord Bach IV. Divendres Sant Nicolau The Island Rachmaninoff Irish Tune From County Derry Percy Grainger Hymn to Raphael the Divine Bossi...
...English type of music, no English school because the composers don't all run on one track. We have a number of very good writers, but they all represent different opinions. There is no unity, no real English school and that is largely because we have no typical folk-song. Yet the people are musical; in London alone we have 4000 choral societies," he remarked...