Word: songed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stores are gaping and shattered; at the Cathedral of St. Stephen, Nazi artillery and flames have left the foreparts of the choir and the high altar exposed to the sky. But its 500-year-old spire still rises above Vienna in slender majesty. Viennese, this spring, revived an old song: "Dear old spire of St. Stephen's, you will pull through this...
John Dewey's new book is a collection of his writings for the past twelve years, plus a new chapter summing them up. Scientific living is still his theme song, as it was in the 1900s...
When war came, he joined the Air Corps, played in Winged Victory, then toured the Pacific with the "Winged Pigeons," an eleven-man entertainment unit ("we played close to a million men and were never fired on once"). He also wrote a G.I. song hit, Why Do They Call a Private, Private? and most of the material for the 27 impressions and seven character studies that make up his present repertory...
Borrowing from your own, or some other nation's, storehouse of folk music is an old composer's trick. Dvorak and Puccini used U.S. tunes. Tchaikovsky not only reworked Russia's own Song of the Volga Boatmen but borrowed a bar or two from Italian music. Ravel, Chabrier and Rimsky-Korsakov took from the Spanish; Aaron Copland from the Mexicans. Last week the U.S.S.R. and the U.S. decided to work each other's musical gold mines officially...
...five he will take with him: He's Gone Away, an old North Carolina love song; Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair, an Elizabethan ballad still sung in the Southern mountains; the square dancers' Old Joe Clark; the spiritual Joshua Fit de Battle of Jericho; the cowboys' Old Chisholm Trail...