Word: harps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...HARP THAT ONCE-Howard Mumford Jones-Holt...
...until Moore had settled in England, some time after, that he wrote his Irish Melodies, the series of poems which, set to music by Sir John Stevenson and containing such songs as Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms, Oh, Breathe Not His Name.* The Harp That Once Through Tara's Halls, comprise the work for which he is chiefly remembered. Though the Melodies are filled with romantic, hazy references to the woes of Erin, in practical fact the fires of revolutionary ardor in the poet himself had burned very dim. A favorite with fashionable London...
Dennis Stoll, U. S.-hating young British composer, received permission from Queen Elizabeth to dedicate to Princess Margaret Rose a suite for strings and harp. The four movements are entitled: To Her Hands in Prayer, To Her Feet in Dance, To Her Heart in Beauty, To Her Infinite Variety...
...starts to play Rachmaninoff's Prelude. When he hits a bass note, the piano begins to misfire. When he plays allegro, the top flies off. When he becomes angry, all the keys begin to fly around his ears. Pleased, Harpo removes the strings, uses them for a magnificent harp solo...
Negro Composer William Grant Still's dull, pretentious Ebon Chronicle followed, then Van Phillips' saucy, syncopated fugue called Thank You, Mr. Bach and a harp solo of the St. Louis Blues by World's Hottest Harpist Casper Reardon. Biggest hit of the day was All Points West by Rodgers & Hart. Here, against a tragic throbbing of strings and weird wind effects, Baritone Raymond Middleton Jr. called trains, recited the cynical, sentimental, sniggering thoughts of a train announcer, was unexpectedly shot by a stray bullet...