Word: singin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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William Walker, called "Singin' Billy," was an itinerant singing master who made the rounds of hundreds of singing schools in the Carolinas, Georgia and Tennessee...
...singing as: "All affectation should be banished, for it is disgusting in the performance of sacred music, and contrary to that solemnity which should accompany an exercise so near akin to that which will through all eternity engage the attention of those who walk in climes of bliss." Said "Singin' Billy": "I would rather have A.S.H. after my name than P-r-e-s in front...
Lest they disappear entirely, the WPA Federal Writers' Project last week got out facsimile edition of "Singin' Billy's" song book- just in time for this year's one-day Singing. Armed with fine new copies Southern Harmony, the singers once filled the Court House, yielding to 40 oldsters the honored place in front of rail. To the time-beating of a quavery old leader, everyone joined in the traditional opening number: Brethren, we met to worship, and adore the Lord...
...Whose latest book (THE SINGIN' FIDDLER OF LOST HOPE HOLLOW-Button, $2.50), a biography of her colleague, Fiddler Setters, was published last fortnight...
...Netzorg his The Bhalahu in Detroit. WPA musicians will take part this spring in a series of Manhattan concerts showing the history of U. S. music, in a Virginia State Music Festival, in a New Jersey Beethoven Cycle, in a May festival in St. Paul and Minneapolis, in a "Singin' Gatherin' " in the Kentucky hills...