Word: folks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thorough knowledge of musical technique which only needs a little more polishing. Their repertoire covers the wide range from the informal Old English Round "The Peddlar" to Bach's formal choral "Sing Ye To The Lord." It is apparent that the singers are more at home in such folk-songs as the "Fum! Fum! Fum!" than in Brahms' "The Wall of Heaven"; but their ability to color and shade the simpler songs, to give these a real vitality, puts them among finished artists...
...Program I. Gloria in Excelsis Palestrina The Three Kings Romeu The Wall of Heaven O Saviour Rend (Motet) Brahms II. Fum! Fum! Fum (Catalonian Folk-song) arranged by Schindler Australian Up-Country Song Percy Grainger Now is the Month of Maying Morley Wassail Song arranged by Vaughan Williams III. Sing Ye to the Lord Bach IV. Divendres Sant Nicolau The Island Rachmaninoff Irish Tune From County Derry Percy Grainger Hymn to Raphael the Divine Bossi...
...Yale singers will open the program with four English folk songs. "Agincourt Song", "Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes", "Swansea Town", and "What Shall We Do With A Drunken Sailor". They will be followed by the Harvard Banjo Club, who will offer a football medley and the "Veritas" march...
...remaining lectures, in addition to that of the coming Thursday, will be: Thursday, December 5--"English Schools, Old and New"; and Thursday, December 12--"The Folk High Schools of Denmark and the Elsinore Conference...
Fuyon tous d'amour le jeu (Early French Folk Song) Orlando LassusIrish Tune from County Derry (British Folk Tune) Percy GraingerNow is the Month of Maying (Old English Dance) Thomas MorleyWassail Song (Early English Carol) Arranged by R. Vaughan William