Word: songfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...occasion, Negro Poet Langston Hughes (The Weary Blues, Fine Clothes to the Jew) wrote a "workers' song" entitled " One more 'S' in the U. S. A." Excerpt...
...most poignant picture of adolescent girlhood since Maedchen in Uniform, British Cinemactress Victoria Hopper gives a tender, sensitive, haunting performance. Dodd is Brian Aherne, the British actor who played Robert Browning to Katharine Cornell's Elizabeth Barrett on the stage. Undistinguished opposite Marlene Dietrich in The Song of Songs, he exhibits in this film vast improvement...
...Glee Club and the Choral Society will give together "O Fons Bandusiae," a Horatian ode set to music by Randall Thompson '20, "John Brown's Song," by Delancy, the "Gesang der Parzen," from Opus 89 by Brahms, Beethoven's "Elegischer Gesang," from Opus 118, and "Nunist das Heil," from Bach's Cantata No. 50. The Glee Club alone will render "Two Choruses for Men's Voices," from Mozart's "Cantatas for the Freemasons," while Loefiller's "By the Waters of Babylon," will be sung by the Choral Society...
...Domnhall the Seanascal endeared himself to the Dublin masses by refusing to send King George for Christmas the traditional pastry of "four and twenty woodcocks baked in a pie,'' for generations the annual gift of Irish viceroys. Dublin instantly rang with a new version of the old song...
With a view of getting 5,000 full francs' worth of song, the Academy stipulated that the winning hymn must last from twelve to 15 minutes and be scored for four to eight mixed voices and a full orchestra. This remarkable paean will be sung in June at the Grand Festival of Bordeaux before no less a connoisseur than President Albert Lebrun...