Word: songfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...James E. Hancock, president-general of the Society of the War of 1812, denied that the tune was difficult. Said he: "Even the mocking birds in Florida learned the song from the buglers when soldiers were encamped there en route to Cuba in the Spanish...
...world", as he terms them: "There is material in these spirituals worthy of use by our best composers. With their infinite variety of rhythm, their plaintive melodies and unusual harmonies, they can furnish inspiration for the highest music....The negro has been largely unable to express himself except in song. Perhaps that is why his music has such powerful appeal....I have termed this music noble, and I do so without any qualifications...
...their prosperity to the singer Sadko, often told their children how he had made the River Volkhov to flow, thus opening their city to the sea. The legendary Sadko appealed to famed Russian Composer Nicolas Andreievich Rimsky-Korsakov, who wrote an opera about him in which is included "The Song of India." In its proper setting, in the opera Sadko, it was heard for the first time in the U. S. last week at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House...
...merchants. Instead of praising them, his singing boasted of what he would do with their opportunities, so that they drove him into the streets. Thence he went to the shores of Lake Ilmen, sang sorrowfully until there appeared Volkhova, Princess of the Sea. Instantly she loved Sadko for his song, told him that if he cast his net into the waters he would draw forth three golden fishes which would spell wealth, happiness. Sadko rushed home, cast aside his doting wife, proceeded to the quay where he wagered the merchants his head against their wealth that he could catch...
When famed singers like Feodor Chaliapin, Amelita Galli-Curci or Beniamino Giglo give concerts in Vienna they are usually paid $2,000 or $3,000 per appearance. When Al Jolson, mammy song singer, now vacationing in Europe, was asked last week by a Viennese manager to sing there, he replied that he would-for $5,000. Vienna refused the bargain...