Word: folks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...program will be: Choruses for Freemasons by Mozart; "Supplicationes," by Palestrina; Psaume 121, by Milhaud; "O Du Eselhafter Martin," by Mozart; "Tarantella." by Randall Thompson '20; Two Folk Songs: Liebeslieder, by Brahms; and Choruses from the "Yeoman of the Guard," by Gilbert and Sullivan...
...French followers of painting, the exhibition of U. S. oils and watercolors is designed to be an enlightenment. It may well prove to be one in several respects. From the body of U. S. folk art, which nobody even in the U. S. paid much attention to until a generation ago, there are 17 paintings. Also largely unfamiliar or forgotten in Europe are many of the choice 18th and 19th Century paintings. It is in the 20th Century section of the show, however, that Parisians will find an interest which the British Exhibition at the Louvre conspicuously lacks...
Group one on the program will consist of "shout For Joy" by Bach, "Supplications" by Palestvina, and "Chey-uses For Freemasons" by Mozart. In the second group the Glee Club will sing choruses from "the Yeoman of the Guard" by Sullivan, "Liebeslieder," and three folk songs by Brahms...
...Symphony sported the names of four U. S. composers.. To concertgoers the most familiar was that of pasty-faced Emerson Whithorne, onetime music-critic and husband of Pianist Ethel Leginska. Whithorne's new Sierra Morena, premiered by walrus-mustached Pierre Monteux, consisted of Spanish folk-idioms with impressionistic gravy. The -gravy lacked the smoothness of Ravel's, the piquancy of Manuel de Falla's, tasted a little like both...
...Whipple concluded that their enormous popularity did not constitute a serious reflection on U. S. taste. Zane Grey's tireless riders of the purple sage, lone star rangers and wanderers of the wasteland, he decided, were interesting for a curious reason: They were like the heroes of some folk tale that had never quite got written. Nobody would compare the stories of Zane Grey to Beowulf, but before Beowulf there were probably generations of crude popular storytellers, handing on the same legends, gradually refining them, until eventually a poet appeared who could organize them into a unified work. Zane...