Word: songfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...March, "Le Pere de la Victoire"Ganne *Overture to "Mignon" Thomas *"Spring" (For String Orchestra) Grieg *"Fosterians," Rhapsody on Melodies of Stephen Foster Baron *Prelude to "Lohengrin" Wagner *Song of India Rimsky-Korsakov *Ouverture Solennelle, "1812" Tchaikovsky Hans Wiener and Dance Group with Orchestra *"La Valse" Ravel *Roumanian Rhapsody Enesco Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square
...Portland, Oregon, of the Harvard class of 1910. The John Reed who wrote youthful poetry for the Harvard Monthly and the Advocate, who led the cheering in the Stadium, member of Hasty Pudding and Ibis of the Lampoon. The same John Reed wrote the words to the football song "Score," and created the Paterson strike pageant. The same Reed chummed with the romantic Villa in Mexico and, not much later, was under indictment in a half-score of sedition cases for defending the Russion Revolution in this country. He changed tremendously in the decade of upheaval from...
...piano in the orchestra pit. The old favorites are all presented in a very pleasing score, sung by some of the original cast and by the capable Irene Dunne, who is supported by Allan Jones. Jones has an adequate tenor voice, which does full justice to the songs he is called upon to sing. Helen Morgan's "Bill" is as appealing as ever, and Paul Robeson is given ample opportunity to show how a great song like "Old Man River" should be sung...
Handy had 55 men playing for him when in 1909 he was hired to boost a Memphis politician named Edward Hull Crump, who was running for Mayor. Handy wrote a song, played it on Memphis street corners...
With all Memphis humming his song, Crump won the election, went on to become the Democratic boss of Shelby County and sit in Congress. Three years later when Handy attempted to publish the song as Memphis Blues, he met with repeated rejections, finally sold it, rights and all, for $100. St. Louis Blues (1914) might have had a similar fate, except that this time, when no publisher was interested, Handy decided to take a gamble and put it out himself. It made him a fortune, still sells so well that it brings in royalties of some $25,000 per year...