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What men sing as they march forth to war is a continual vexation to serious musicians. In the Civil War, Stonewall Jackson's "foot cavalry" were fond of a song praising goober peas ("Goodness, how delicious, eating goober peas!"); while the inconsequential battle hymn of the South became...
...North's song, Grafted Into the Army-written by Henry C. Work-was at least as popular as the Battle Hymn of the Republic...
...battle-littered streets of Petrograd. Said the servant: "This is the revolution, Mitya." Young Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich only stared and clutched the servant's apron. But what he saw and heard he pondered in his precocious head. Once safe at home, he sat down and composed two pieces: Hymn to Liberty and Funeral March to the Victims of the Revolution. A prodigy and a prodigious event...
...Manhattan studio. For those who couldn't read notes he worked out a special harmonica notation system. He dug up 17th Century music from libraries. On walking trips through the hills of Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Arkansas, he learned tunes from fiddlers and singers, copied others from old hymn books...
...Nazis have just produced a "Na-tional Church Hymnal" which deletes all references to Jerusalem, Zion and anything else that might be considered "Jewish." It cuts the number of hymns from 500 to 284, omits entirely such favorites as Martin Luther's Communion and Easter hymns, adds many new hymns glorifying Nazi blood & soil doctrines. A new baptismal hymn, Tender Child of German Blood, runs: "We baptise thee that thou may be consecrated to the service of our people in loyalty...