Word: songfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Story of San Michele, a current "best seller," (TIME, Nov. 24) Dr. Axel Munthe describes with righteous indignation the practice in Italy some years ago of putting out the eyes of song birds, which were then used as decoys for the capture of other birds...
...offstage crockery crash which annually opens the Gridiron Club's dinner was explained this time as: "That's the American people vindicating Mr. Hoover at the polls." General fun-making included a song: "Oh, the moon's behind a cloud along the Wabash, for the Democrats are making all the hay; in the sycamores the G. O. P. is hiding, on the banks of the Wabash hell's to pay." President Hoover, present as No. 1 guest as usual, as usual addressed his news-gathering hosts, as usual eased his feelings in reply to their horse...
...evening will be H. M. Abel '30, Max well Arkusch '31, A. F. Bixby '31, Harold Schmidt '32, and F. M. Watkins '30. The program will be as follows: Jerusalem Sir C. H. H. Parry Inimiei Autem C. Lassus Spring Returns Marenzio Turn Ye to Me Scottish Folk Song Marching Brahms Pinafore A. Sullivan (Intermission) Gondoliers A. Sullivan Adoramus To G. P. Palestrina Salamalaikum P. Cornelius April is in My Mistress' Face T. Merley Hundred Pipers Scottish Folk Song Jesu Joy Bach Coronation Scene M. P. Moussorgeky
...music is modern: a waltz theme winds through it all. There is a jazz scene in the second act where saxophones, two pianos and a banjo are used. Unlike Traviata there are no set arias, duos or trios. The characters do not express themselves in formal, stilted song. More in the manner of Pelleas et Melisande, they talk back and forth naturally in the intimate, emotionalized musical speech for which Mary Garden has a particular genius...
Beethoven's Adelaide by Baritone Heinrich Schlusnus (Brunswick, $1.50)-A foremost lieder singer displays his fine phrasing, his immaculate diction. Sing Something Simple and Happy Feet (Victor)-The Revelers again get the effects of a full-piece band. Body and Soul and With a Song in My Heart by Jack Hylton and his orchestra (Victor, $1.25)-A famed British jazzman embroiders neat concert versions of two deserving songs. Dance Records: You're Lucky to Me and Memories of You (Okeh)-For those who like hot jazz with husky singing, husky trumpets. The band is Louis Armstrong...