Word: folke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...waltz which he had long aspired to do in the Strauss genre was muddled and thin. The singing on the stage seemed to have little relation to the rambling accompaniment in the pit. Things improved with the beginning of the dream music, much of which was based on French folk songs. The orchestration took on a lovely, flowing sheen. Interludes in the manner of Pelleas et Melisande linked the scenes. Theatrically effective was the music for the scene in which Peter met his childhood hero, old Major Duquesnoir who did not recognize him; also in the killing of Colonel Ibbetson...
Green Grow the Lilacs is a folk-play whose elements are a good deal more folk than play. Because Playwright Lynn Riggs (Roadside) is a poet rather than a dramatist, his pithy piece is chock full of fine, salty dialog, but the dramatic structure is very slim...
Steuart Wilson English tenor, and former member of the English Singers will give a vocal recital at the John Knowles Paine Concert Hall, in the Music Building, tonight at 8.15 o'clock Mr. Wilson, who is an authority on the interpretation of Bach and of Folk Music has been asked to sing by the faculty of the Division of Music, and will be accompanied by Dalies Frantz...
...program will include two compositions by Bach, one by Handel, and a number of old English folk songs. He will also sing a group of ballads of the British Isles and of Kentucky...
...failure at it or despair of it entertained by his best predecessors and colleagues. Statesman George Bancroft (1800-91) surely meant to round out his ten-volume History of the United States, the first volume of which was issued in 1834, but his subsequent activities as President Folk's Secretary of the Navy, and as Minister to England and to Germany, prevented him from getting further than 1782. A great historian must also be a literary craftsman. Literature as well as history was created by Francis Parkman and Henry Adams, but neither of them re corded more than...