Word: songful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chairman Harold McMillan Bixby of the St. Louis Chamber of Commerce knows how irked Charles Augustus Lindbergh becomes when he hears the song, "Lucky Lindy," by Abel Zaer. Last week, Mr. Bixby told that at a Lindbergh party in Manhattan, he and others sang "Lucky Lindy" at Col. Lindbergh on purpose. Col. Lindbergh made no comment. Next day, flying Mr. Bixby and another of the singers back to St. Louis, the Lindbergh plane dived, climbed, dived, climbed, dived, all morning. Mr. Bixby is a good air sailor but the other singer, Harry Knight, became "a rich green" with airsickness. Then...
...music in the South was formal and surrounded with cold, music in the North was warm and humble, made gay by the climbing spring. At the Chateau Frontenac, in Quebec, was held the second annual Canadian Folk Song and Handicraft Festival...
...listen last week while 27 bands comprising 2,000 high schoolers successively blared Finlandia, a stirring tone-poem of famed Finn Jean Sibelius. Although the genius of Sibelius has brought him a permanent subsidy from the Finnish government, he did not compose the national anthem: Maame Laulu ("The Song of our Country"), opus of Funns Bacius (composer) and Runeberg (poet...
...Wilhelmi Fantasia, "Aida" Verdi Ballet of the Hours from "Gloconda" Ponchielli The Lost Chord Sullivan (Trumpet solo: Georges Mager) Mississippi Suite Grofe a. Father of Waters b. Huckleberry Finn c. Old Creole Days d. Mardi Gras Selection, "Good News" De Sylva Waltz, "Jolly Fellows" Vollstedt American Patrol Meacham Stein Song...
...dozen years ago Joseph P. Kennedy, Boston Irish boy just turning his 20's loved to hear Sweet Adeline. The song was the favorite of Boston's recent (1906-07, 1910-14) Mayor, John Francis Fitzgerald. Mr. Fitzgerald would sing it in the front parlor of his folksy white home in Dorchester, Boston suburb. Young Kennedy, outside on the porch hammock would give ear and, with him, Rose Fitzgerald. Or while her father's heart pined for "Adeline," they would stroll into Franklin Park, past the monkey house toward the quiet place of the bear pits. Rose...