Word: folke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first public appearance as a ballad singer, Miss Grace Albert gave an encore-drawing recital of American and English folk music yesterday afternoon before a rain-soaked but none the less enthusiastic audience in the Poetry Room of Widener Library...
...passably on the cello, studied composition at the Moscow Conservatory with Miaskovsky, who had been a pupil of Rimsky-Korsakov. When Aram graduated in 1933, his name was carved on a marble panel, an honor reserved for star pupils. Khachaturian still draws heavily on his native Armenian and Georgian folk themes and rhythms for his symphonies and concertos, and on Ravel and Stravinsky, among others, for his handling of them. The three living composers he admires most are Stravinsky, Prokofiev and Shostakovich. (Russian expatriate Stravinsky, now a U.S. citizen, has been denounced by Culture and Life as "a man without...
...Choral Society will concentrate on works of Bach and American folk songs...
...Clubs will alternate for most of the program and then get together to sing "Old Nassau," "Fair Harvard" and an American folk song. G. Wallace Woodworth '24, professor of Music, will conduct the Harvard singers, sharing the podium with Princetonian J. Merrill Knapp...
...Roots" and "Tomorrow the World," Gow will follow the general outline of the series in presenting the problems of drama in America and a resume of its development as an art from here. After Gow comes a program on concert music scheduled for November 5 and one on folk music November...