Word: songfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Irela has refused to face the fact that she is about to sing her operatic swan-song. No longer can she reach her high notes without taking a second breath but the reappearance of an ancient lover reminds her of the departed days when the students of St. Petersburg unhitched her horses and dragged her carriage through the streets. It takes the competition of a Spanish singer and a paralytic stroke to bring home the crushing truth: that she must henceforth pass her days in "farewell tours" singing numbers like "Comin' Thro' The Rye." Creditable indeed...
...songs represent something of an anomaly: Dryden, the greatest of English neo-classic writers has excelled himself as a lyric poet; and further he wrote the best of them, "Alexander's Feast," at the age of sixty-six, when the fire of most songsters has long since died. Dryden's lyric gift was constant throughout his long and varied literary career. The songs are some of them in the tradition of Catullus and Robert Herrick, some in that of the popular English plain-song. They are most exquisite when most indecent, and very beautiful both when...
...composer was the founder of the present Gold Coast Orchestra at Harvard. Since leaving college, he has written several song hits, including "Body and Soul," and "I'm Yours." At present he is engaged in writing musical interpretations of poetry...
...annual concert of the Club at Milton Academy on February 17 will contain the following selections: two choruses from "Princess Ida," by Gilbert and Sullivan; Vittoria's "Ave Maria"; "J'Entends le Moulin," a French-Canadian folk song: "The Camels Are Coming"; "Salvation Belongeth To Our Lord," by Tsegesnakoff; the "Cavalier's Song," by Sanford' two choruses from "Orpheus," by Glueck; "Firefiles" and "At Father's Door," two Russian folk songs; "Secret Nock," by Brahms; and "Let Their Celestial Concerts All Unite," by Handel...
...violent episodes which supplied the spice to Bisbee's colorful career, a few stand out prominently. Early this fall, Bisbee was seized by an over-powering passion to write lyrics. Answering an add in Motion Picture Magazine, he wrote, "I have been thinking about composing a peppy, collegiate song with a racy, ha-cha-cha chorus." Almost immediately he received a reply from Henry Cohen, chief of staff, to the effect "whether you write for play of pay, you are to be encouraged because it shows a lofty thought...