Word: songful
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...trying to make fun of the Advocate. Franklin S. Owen's "Sunset's Cradle Song," with an idea, and a little art, is a lone curd in an ocean of whey...
...organ, assisted by Miss Elsa Alves, soprano, will render the following program: Chorale in A minor, Franck Prayer, Ropartz Professor Davison. "Come, Sweet Death," Bach Alleluja, Mozart Elsa Alves. Canon, Schumann Bourree, Handel Andante (Sixth Symphony), Widor Professor Davison. "For a Dream's Sake," A. W. Kramer Hindoo Slumber Song, Harriet Ware Japanese Death Song, Earl Cranston Sharp Pierott, Dagmar de Rubner Elsa Alves. Pastorale, Dubois Grand Choeur, Guilmant Professor Davison...
Equally well selected and equally various are the subjects. One finds Rupert Brooke's "The Dead" and "The Soldier." Cammaert's "Song of the Belgians," and Bourdillon's "The Call." One poem seems, for the moment, a bit out of place in the Collection--Miss Burr's "Holy Russia," a glorification of the new (now wavering) democracy...
...Spirit, come (Veni, Sancte Spiritus). 9. Nunc Dimittis. Choral Prelude, J. S. Bach. 10. The Lord's Prayer. Choral Prelude, Samuel Scheidt, 1587-1659. 11. Sanctus. 12. From heaven above to earth 1 come. Choral Prelude, Pachelbel, 1653-1706, 13. To Shepherds as they watched by night (original folk-song melody). 14. A mighty fortress is our God. Choral Fantasia, J. S. Bach...
There is enough philosophy of common sense in that old student song to make it worth repetition: Gaudeamus igitur iuvenes dum sumus...