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...program for the Milton concert is as follows: Chorale and Finale from "Die Meistersinger," by Wagner; "Jesu Dulcis Memoria," by Vittoria; "My Bonny Lass," by Morley; "Brennan on the Moor," an English folksong with D. P. McAllister '38 as soloist; "Le Miracle de St. Nicholas," a French chorale, with Courtland Canby '36 and John H. Eric '37 as soloists; "Spanish Ladies," an English folksong, with John L. Bishop '37 as soloist; three love songs from Opus 65 by Brahms: "Nightingale, Thy Sweetest Song"; "A Tremor's in the Branches"; "From Yon Hills," a chorus from "Iolanthe" by Sir Arthur Sullivan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MILTON CONCERT FIRST ON GLEE CLUB SCHEDULE | 2/12/1935 | See Source »

...mountaineers, many of them in shirtsleeves, played accordions, dulcimers, banjos, guitars. They sang, as they had heard their parents and grandparents sing, about Sourwood Mountain, turnip greens. old coon dogs, Napoleon Bonaparte. Because many an expert believes that these are the rarest of U. S. folksongs, cameramen were present to film the proceedings for the Library of Congress. Feature of the afternoon was supposed to be an Elizabethan wedding celebration in which Marion Kerby, Chicago ballad expert, soloed. But outsiders were more interested in Jilson Setters, the 75-year-old fiddler whom Miss Thomas took to Lon don a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Traipsin' Woman | 6/18/1934 | See Source »

Last week the Circuit Court reversed the District Court, decided that George was not the author of the folksong that ranks close behind "Casey Jones." Judge Davis quoted the Dalhart version which Victor attributes to two other Virginians, Charles Noell and Henry Whitter who took Noell's poem, modified it a bit and sang it around on street corners and in plank taverns to a guitar and harmonica accompaniment. Dalhart made "The Old 97" go this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Week's Cargo | 1/15/1934 | See Source »

...whole story, not simply the dialog, is told in hillbilly tongue; the cumulative effect is to make The Woods Colt a prose folksong. Just before the shot that ends his story Clint takes a last look at the woods where his parents got him: "They're mighty purty right this minute, they shore are. The leaves is all red an' yaller, an' they're a-movin' gentle-like, back an' forth, back an' forth, jest enough to let you know they're there. This is the fall o' the year, with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ozarks | 10/9/1933 | See Source »

...Guildford and Norwich and 2,700 English & Irish bell ringers. Chicagoans inside & outside the chapel last week heard Carilloneur Lefévere, imported from Manhattan's Rockefeller-built Riverside Baptist Church, play "Now Thank We All Our God," a spot of counterpoint by Handel, "Annie Laurie," a Welsh folksong arid an ancient hymn from the Low Countries, home of the carillon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bells of Chicago | 12/5/1932 | See Source »

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