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...owes its existence to little Tom Lewis, a bespectacled Welshman who as a boy worked in the mines and had his greatest fun at the yearly eisteddfod. In the Chrysler factory Tom Lewis found eight other Welshmen who liked to sing with him. Encouraged, he corralled more workers-a millwright, a metal finisher, a carpenter, a stockman. Two hundred sang with him at the Festival last week, a bit self-conscious in their dressed-up clothes but lustily sure of the songs ("Cornfield Melodies," "Galway Piper") that Tom Lewis had taught them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: May Amateurs | 6/3/1935 | See Source »

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