Word: songful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...selections will include "Song Cycle, Opus 57," by Brahms; "Song" and "Dirge in Woods," by Copland; "Two Poems of Coventry Patmore," by Milhaud, and "Prose Lyric," by Debussy...
Having concentrated mainly on modern plays, the HTG performed a noble parting gesture to the cause of new drama just before the founding members' graduation in 1953. As its swan song, the Group decided to give the premiere of The General, written by Robert H. Chapman, associate professor of English. Directed by the author, the performance was excellent. But the play was weak, and the production lost $3000 (though a New York manager picked up the tab). Nevertheless, all agreed that the HTG could take pride in its exit as well as its previous record...
Drumbeats and Song, the annual Radcliffe musical for the benefit of the Grant-in-Aid fund, was voted a loan of $1,600 to be paid back after the March production in Sanders Theater. Miss Rolnick noted that well over twice as much money as last year will be allotted to publicity for the show...
Although Dot's song trailed the field by about five days, the company is counting heavily on Entertainer Allen to give it the TV boost it needs. A production push of the kind the hula hoopsters have been engaged in can send costs soaring to five times what they usually are. To absorb that kind of expense requires a major hit (like Purple People Eater), and none of the hula songs yet recorded seem likely to go that far. "It's beginning to look," said one weary A. & R. man last week, "like everybody got carried away with...
...lining up and reciting the Seven Commandments of Matsushita. They range from "Be just, cheerful, correct and broadminded" to sharp reminders to "improve yourself through hard work" and exhortations to appreciate employee benefits, e.g., "Be grateful and repay kindness." Recitation over, employees break into a martial company song, The Song of National, that urges them: "For the building of the new Japan, unite your hearts, unite your efforts. Give your all. Let us send our products to the people of the world in an unending stream." Employees then tree off to their work benches, but the uplift does...