Word: folke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...program will be: Harvard Hymn, by Paine; Student Songs of the Seventeenth Century, by Schein; Supplicationes, Palestrina; Psaume 121, by Milhaud; Gently Johnny, English Folk Song; Tarantella, by Randall Thompson; Men of Harlech, Welsh Folk Song; Libeslieder, by Brahms; Canon; O Du Eselhafter Martin, by Mozart; Choruses from the Yeoman of the Guard, Sullivan...
...FRENCH FOLK SONGS FOR CHILDREN (Sung by Louis Chartier with accompaniment; Decca). Album of three records, 13 songs. Musical charm plus educative value...
...Chekhov's best play, The Sea Gull ranks well below his incomparable Cherry Orchard, his moving Three Sisters. The people it treats of are fibreless, end-stopped artistic folk. Self-pitying, middle-aged Actress Irina (Lynn Fontanne) shrugs, screams, clutches tight the second-rate novelist, Trigorin (Alfred Lunt). Irina's son Constantine (Richard Whorf) writes advanced plays, loves the ingenuous, stage-struck Nina (Uta Hagen), who in turn idolizes Trigorin. Nina is the sea gull- the fluttering bird whom Trigorin ruins out of thoughtless pleasure, condemning her to the life of a third-rate actress, driving Constantine...
...suddenly developed a tremendous respect for such romantic 19th-Century composers as Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov (both previously considered horrible examples of bourgeois sentimentality), got themselves a new approved list of less modernistic composers. First to shine among the new group was young Ivan Dzerzhinsky, whose melodious, folk-song-inspired opera And Quiet Flows the Don was contrasted favorably with that "muddle of sound, raucous cacophony and lascivious naturalism," Lady Macbeth. Most talented of the new group was shy, sandy-haired, 24-year-old Tykon Krennikov, whose deep, contemplative First Symphony was hailed by critics at its Manhattan premi...
...lived in a small town in up-state New York, close to the Canadian border. Small though the town is, the area which must be covered by a doctor is vast and wild. His patients range from Indians and French-Canadians, to small farmers and village folk, and his duties from major operations to treating contagious illnesses...