Word: songful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Program I. Gloria in Excelsis Palestrina The Three Kings Romeu The Wall of Heaven O Saviour Rend (Motet) Brahms II. Fum! Fum! Fum (Catalonian Folk-song) arranged by Schindler Australian Up-Country Song Percy Grainger Now is the Month of Maying Morley Wassail Song arranged by Vaughan Williams III. Sing Ye to the Lord Bach IV. Divendres Sant Nicolau The Island Rachmaninoff Irish Tune From County Derry Percy Grainger Hymn to Raphael the Divine Bossi...
...conductor, knows how to manage his singers, and to bring out the range and power of their voices. And the choir was unfailing responsive to his demands upon it. As a last suggestion: if there were some more definite way of establishing among the singers the pitch of each song--none was apparent to the audience--such unfortunate excursions off the key as occurred in the "Irish Tune from County Derry" might be avoided...
...with President Kalinin who had rushed to pay respects. Meanwhile a troop of "Revolutionary Entertainers" had skipped cavorting onto the stage. Only one number seemed to please Stalin. He is an Asiatic from the Soviet Republic of Georgia, adjoining Armenia. When a singer named Zagorskaya sang a Georgian love song, The Man of Steel applauded vigorously, unbent, began to chat animatedly with Peasant-President Kalinin...
...pianist. When she was 12, her father brought home his friend John Neal, to hear her play. So impressed was John Neal that upon his death in 1923 he left her $1,000,000 in Reynolds Tobacco stock. She sewed in her chinchilla coat a bar of the song she had played for John Neal, Liszt's Liebestraum...
...Hungarian violinist who played symphonies for royal families and his son who played jazz. Elements of mother love, fatherly pride, wealth that can buy finery but not happiness, fail to depress Jazz King Lewis. He excitedly and excitingly blows his clarinet and saxophone, juggles his high hat, croons odd songs in a hoarse voice. Best song: "I'm the Medicine Man for the Blues...