Word: folke
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last week the walls of Manhattan's famed Carnegie Hall rang to the strong strains of Welsh folk-music. Most of the performing Cymry were born in Wales, now live in the U. S. The solemn, intense, long-skulled choristers of Cleveland's Cambrian Male Choir sang ancient Celtic hymns. New York's Welsh Women's Chorus, in scarlet capes and topper-like hats, proved that a language that looks shy on vowels need not sound unmusical...
...cornet and Fred Longshaw on a portable organ. Fletcher Henderson, who played the piano for her Weeping Willow Blues, with Joe Smith on the cornet, calls this the greatest blues record ever made. Careless Love is W. C. Handy's arrangement of what is almost a U. S. folk song. Trombone Cholly, with the late Trombonist Charlie Green playing among Bessie Smith's "Blue Boys," is a classic for all connoisseurs of the "sliphorn." For Backwater Blues, James P. Johnson, teacher of "Fats" Waller, furnishes an able piano accompaniment. Only three of the twelve sides in the Bessie...
...country folk...
...program follows: Programme Choruses for Freemasons Mozart Soloist: J. L. Morrisson '38 Student Songs of the XVII Century, from "Studentenschmauss," (1626) Schein Bacchanale, from "La Belle Helene" Offenbach Canon: O du eselhafter Martin Mozart Men of Hariech Welsh Folk Song Harvard Tarantella Randall Thompson (Composed for and dedicated to the Yale Glee Club, 1937) Orpheus With His Lute Parker Bailey (poem by William Shakespeare) Hopei Schupei Czechish Folk Song The Testament Heinrich Marschner (student song of Heidelberg) Yale INTERMISSION Liebeslieder Brahms Choruses from The Yeomen of the Guard Sullivan Soloist: D. P. MacAllester '38 Football Songs Harvard Brave Mother Yale...
...never more so than in Dr. Syn. In the dual roles of an 18th century pirate and the kindly vicar of Dymchurch-under-the-wall, 69-year-old Actor Arliss takes a well-deserved vacation from high matters, enjoys a revel in unmonocled duplicity. To the simple folk of Dymchurchhe is an example in godliness; to his pirate crew, an iron leader; to His Majesty's revenuers, a headache- all of which added together make a picture to appeal to those who in an earlier era adored Robert Louis Stevenson...