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According to Carl Sandburg, it was one of Abe Lincoln's favorite songs. Nobody knows who wrote it, but its words got into print in 1848, in the Ethiopian Glee Book. About five years ago tubby troubadour Burl Ives first heard The Blue-Tail...
Last week another visitor to Kalamazoo (pop. 54,097) expressed Poet Carl Sandburg's sentiment even more succinctly. He was 16-year-old Herbert Flam, cocky Crown Prince of Tennis. After looking over the field in the National Junior Championships, he said: "I've seen better...
...Expert Carl Sandburg has uncovered no versions of Frankie's pith-&-vinegar saga, some with as many as 30 stanzas...
...year-old boy from Germany, these folksy, windy lines from Carl Sandburg's Corn Huskers looked 100% American. Five years ago, Composer Lukas Foss, a German-born boy with prodigious energy and an engaging grin, set to work putting Sandburg's verses to music. It was a labor of love for the adopted country he yearned to understand and be a part of. Last week Composer Foss proudly heard his first big cantata, The Prairie, performed in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall by four competent singers, the Westminster Choir and Artur Rodzinski's Philharmonic-Symphony...
...Lukas Foss's music is far from Sandburg's prairie: it is modern, glittering, sophisticated, plainly rooted in Europe. Critics were somewhat baffled last week by the cantata which mixed Foss champagne with Sandburg cornbread, but gently pronounced Composer Foss a promising young...