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...March, "semper Fidelis"Sousa *"Unfinished" Symphony in B minor, First movement Schubert Allegro moderato *Spring Song Mendelssohn *Academic festival Overture Brahms *Ballet Suite from "Aida" Verdi *Largo Handel *Ouverture Solennelle, "1812" Tchaikovsky *"Voices of Spring," Waltzes Strauss *"Night and Day" Porter *"Up the Street," March Mose *Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square...
...Harlow's mind has been the effort and improvement of several "dark horse" Yardlings. Many of these men are playing in new positions and seem to have benefitted from the change. Among the men who have shown up well are Bill Coleman, Holie Wood. Ed Daniels, Ben Wood. Mose Hallett, Dauk Curtis, Gus Soule, Peter Thompson, and Pinkey Winslow...
...good-natured, thoughtful Negro, Mose had wandered into Mississippi from Louisiana, landed at last on the Rutherford plantation. There he lived contentedly, preaching and farming, until his marriage to a bad Negro woman from town lost him the respect of his neighbors, earned him the enmity of Birney, the plantation overseer. Only because Old Rutherford hated his degenerate sons and his pompous overseer could Mose remain on the plantation after he had driven Birney away from his cabin. But even Rutherford's protection could not save him when Birney sent another Negro to pick a fight with him, then...
With attention concentrated on the fearful intrigue steadily tightening around Mose, readers may be slow in recognizing that Author Rylee has unobtrusively built him up as a strong character, a human being extraordinary in his selflessness, his patience and simple eloquence, his deep inner contentment with the seasonal simplicities of farm life. "De Lord done been trampled on befo. . ." he sermonizes. "An hit ain't never ruffle de Lord none. Dey done nail de Lord up an poke a knife in he side and done laid de crown o' thawns on he haid, an hit didn...
Southerners may wonder that so amiable and intelligent a Negro as Mose should blunder into such devilish complications, or provoke such vicious enemies, but they are not likely to cavil over Author Rylee's understanding of the peculiar problems of Southern life. Indeed, Author Rylee finds the central motive for Mary's persistent effort to free Mose, for Rutherford's brief acceptance of his social responsibility, in their profound love of the South and their hatred of those who would dishonor it. Passionately Mary denounces the decent people of Clarksville for their acquiescence to such crimes...