Word: songfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Language and Literature: Homer, Herodotus, Thucydides, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Lucian, the Old Testament, Horace, Ovid, Livy, Virgil, the New Testament, Quintilian, Dante, Volsunga Saga, the Song of Roland, Chaucer, Cervantes, Shakespeare, Milton, Rabelais, Corneille, Racine, Molière, Erasmus., Montaigne, Montesquieu, Grotius...
Whether or not she knew it, when Snow White sang wistfully. "Some Day My Prince Will Come" she was just warbling a revised version if a robust old Yale song called "The Old Eli March" according to a suit filed recently in Federal Court by Thornton W. Allen Company, its publishers...
...complaint alleged that parts of the music were lifted unchanged from the Yale song, composed by Wadsworth Doster, Yale song, composed by Wadsworth Doster, Yale '09, The final stanza of this New Haven Marseillaise reads: "Here's to old Eli, Cheers to old Eli, Years through to old Eli. And for Yale, Yale, Yale, for Yale...
What makes "Alexander's Ragtime Band" an outstanding and in places a profound production is the music. Mr. Berlin's succession of song hits reflect America's changing taste and changing tempo. They are presented here in chronological order, and the history of "jazz" is traced from its noisy pre-war origins, down to the sophisticated swing of today. Happiness, pathos, sentimentality, escapism, the emotions that characterized the years are all there, woven into a curious unity by a composer who has always written for the rank and file. It is pleasant to record that since the picture was first...
...Philharmonic, the Queen's Hall), London's three crack choirs (BBC's Choral Society, the Royal Choral Society, the Philharmonic Choir), 16 of England's best concert and opera singers, Sir Henry's great & good friend, Sergei Rachmaninoff. Ralph Vaughan Williams composed a special song for the occasion called Serenade to Music. Sixty-nine-year-old Sir Henry planned to turn over the proceeds from his anniversary party to an endowment of hospital beds for orchestral players...