Word: folksongs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the concert last week, William Primrose said: "There isn't anything missing in this concerto. It has everything-excitement, pathos, deep feeling and in places an almost folksong quality." Added Hungarian-born Conductor Dorati, who introduced Bartok's opera Bluebeard's Castle in Dallas last year: "I think of this work as a wonderful and beautiful white diamond. It is just as hard, just as crisp and just as white. I think it is an explanation of the whole man who was Bela Bartok...
...Swiss Cradle Song, written by an Australian. Then a Maori woman who liked the tune made up some words to go with it, sang it at a Maori festival. The natives picked it up; so did white New Zealanders who mistakenly thought it an old Maori folksong...
...find it hard even to make a living. I personally am very grateful." Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., 28-year-old historian (The Age of Jackson), won a Guggenheim Fellowship to write a "political-intellectual history" of the New Deal. Other Guggenheimers: Novelist Carson McCullers (The Member of the Wedding); Folksong-bagger Alan Lomax; Painter Eugene Berman...
...subject for musical comedy, the frail, dreamy character of the real Edvard Grieg was more musical than comic. But Song of Norway's librettists depict the gentle, gnomish composer as a heroic genius whose fidelity to Norwegian folksong and his Norwegian wife is threatened by the wiles of an Italian countess named Louisa Giovanni. She represents the cosmopolitan musical culture of sophisticated Europe. Grieg, though tempted, sticks to Norway, and composes his greatest work, the Piano Concerto in A Minor. So ingratiating are the familiar, lyrical Grieg melodies in which this flimsy plot is dressed that last week three...
...Joes '43 "Glorious Apollo" Webbe Written for the Glee Club, London, 1790 Two Bacchanales From "Belshazzar" Handel From "La Belle Helene" Offenbach Four Love Songs "Das Herz tut mir aufspringen" Hassler "Madglein im Walde" Arranged by Dvorak "Bird in Air" Brahms "From you hills" Brahms "Prayer of Thanksgiving" Netherlands Folksong...