Word: folke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...concert proper will start with the Harvard Hymn and be followed by an assortment of psalms, catches and folk songs. Miserere (Psalm 51), "Gently, Jonnny, My Jingalo." "Canto Di Caccia." "Casey Jones," and "Let The Celestial Concerts All Unite" are among the selections to be presented...
...Kiepura, star of the Manhattan revival of The Merry Widow, as a patriotic whim sings an out-of-show Polish folk song in the middle of the performance. When a visiting Polish Pestka (WAC) was moved to tears, a portly, white-haired man seated beside her spoke sympathetically: "I expect Poland to be free again." After the show he stopped the Pestka, shook her hand, urged: "Keep your chin up." Gratefully, she asked if she might know his name. "Of course. It's Hoover-Herbert Hoover...
...four lectures will be given each Wednesday night during May at 8:30 o'clock in Paine Hall. "Music in the Films" will be the subject of next Wednesday's lecture, and the other topics are as follows: May 17, "North and South American Composers"; May 24, "Jazz and Folk Song Influences"; May 31, "The Problem of Style: Shostakoviten versus Schoenberg...
...they showed up in athletic gear. The combined classes split the usually austere atmosphere with well-oiled tonsils. "It must have been quite a time," commented one of Cowie's lovelier dietitians, "to keep the boys away from our wonderful weekly fish supper." (Honest, lady, we love the finny folk...
News for the Masses. Folk-artist Posada in fact practiced a kind of picture journalism. He worked most of his life as a salaried employe of a publishing house in Mexico City. His zinc engravings were printed on cheap colored paper sheets, sold throughout the Mexican countryside. Posada-illustrated broadsides, some with printed ballads (corridos), were often vended by street singers, mainly to peons who could not read. They described news events such as: "Sensational happening! Frightful murder and true example in Saltillo, the first day of the past month (Gentlemen, the criminal has already been shot...