Word: songful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...evening is essentially a family album of George M. Cohan's music. This may be the only musical at which the audience comes into the theater humming the songs. They hold up remarkably well, even though they celebrate the memory of a simple, ardent and unskeptical U.S. that no longer exists. No one now can summon up the unblemished patriotic fervor of You're a Grand Old Flag, Yankee Doodle Dandy and Over There. Few men now can adorn a woman in the romantic gauze and adoring awe of a song like Mary. Every addicted New Yorker...
...Sermon & Song. In the pursuit of "relevancy," Negro churches in the North have been returning to the soulful spirit of the past in worship-and becoming more militant in political concern. Many congregations that had tried to imitate the sobriety of their white counterparts are again beginning to emphasize zeal and fervor in both sermon and song. And Negro pastors-although still a voice of reason in the ghetto-are getting tougher. One of Detroit's most militant black power leaders now is the Rev. Albert B. Cleage Jr., who calls his Central United Church of Christ "the shrine...
...Negro churches began in the south as meetings in the plantation fields, where slaves bewailed their torment in song and preaching. Although barred from joining white churches, Negroes were visited by white evangelists, who instilled in them the fervor and faith of oldtime religion.* The Negro accepted the doctrines but brought to the spirit of worship an intensity arising from repression. Hymns reflected both the African origin of the Negro and the agony of his existence. Sermons emphasized the vision of beatitude in the promised land; the congregation-condemned to submission and silence elsewhere-was free here to give public...
Wednesday night Miss Wilsen presented a recital for soprano remarkable for its originality. Instead of the usual chronological sequence of song groups by Schubert, Schumann, Faure, Wolf, Debussy, and so on, her program was divided between Cantata No. 51 of J.S. Bach ("Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen"), setting by various composers of Goethe's "Rastlose Liebe" and Paul Verlaine's "Clair de lune," along with the cycle On This Island by Benjamin Britten to poetry of W. H. Auden...
...groups of comparative settings were interesting for historical and compositional reasons. Besides the staples Schubert, Faure and Debussy, they gave hearing to such out of the way composers as C. F. Zelter, J. F. Reichardt, Robert Franz and Josef Szulc. The art song is probably one of the most difficult musical media to perform well. Miss Wilsen's effort was noble, but in a sense she was trying too hard. Her tone was often forced and she had trouble with breath control...