Word: minstrell
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...Supreme Court wishes to black its face and have a minstrel, that is their business, but I deeply resent their blackening mine...
Orff: Carmina Burana (Bavarian Radio Orchestra, chorus and soloists conducted by Eugen Jochum; Decca). In 1937 German Composer Carl Orff turned 25 medieval minstrel poems into a cantata about wine, women and springtime. The style is reminiscent of early Stravinsky, with its thudding rhythms, large masses of sound and uncomplicated message...
Fifty a Minute. According to the autobiography, Richards-Hamilton had "a tremendous memory. He learned the Lay of the Last Minstrel by heart before he was twelve." He could also recite huge chunks of Shakespeare, Goethe, Dante and Keats, could play the "immortal game" of chess in his head, learned to write at the rate of 50 words a minute. Not even his arrest in Austria as an enemy alien during World War I could keep him from his typewriter. "Military fatheads," declared Richards-Hamilton, "might come and go, but Billy Bunter went on forever...
...been quietly building a reputation as a specialist in folk and children's songs. He and his Dutch wife Miranda accompany themselves-playing a guitar, tom-toms and an occasional native instrument, he chanting in English and Afrikaans, she piping a shy descant. But in the past year Minstrel Marais has turned popular songsmith. His songs of the veld, such as Sugarbush, Ay-round the Corner and the fast-rising Ma Says, Pa Says, have been recorded by such big-league songbirds as Jo Stafford and Doris...
...only natural; the first half of his life was taken up with occupations that shunned the sun: waif on the Lower East Side, warbling ballads in saloons for small coins; singing waiter in a Bowery joint; song-plugger in the cabarets after theater hours; man-about-Times Square and minstrel who preferred writing his lays in the hours when solitude was easier to find...