Word: songfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Collegians of the nation have a lot to do with making a popular song popular as any songwriter or bandleader will tell you, but behind it all is the promotion and publicity given to it--as any music publisher will tell...
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...suddenly developed a tremendous respect for such romantic 19th-Century composers as Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov (both previously considered horrible examples of bourgeois sentimentality), got themselves a new approved list of less modernistic composers. First to shine among the new group was young Ivan Dzerzhinsky, whose melodious, folk-song-inspired opera And Quiet Flows the Don was contrasted favorably with that "muddle of sound, raucous cacophony and lascivious naturalism," Lady Macbeth. Most talented of the new group was shy, sandy-haired, 24-year-old Tykon Krennikov, whose deep, contemplative First Symphony was hailed by critics at its Manhattan premi...
...week Professor C. Vann Woodward analyzed these two protesting movements in a long (518 pages), meaty biography. Toombs's story was simpler and more heroic; Watson's was incredibly confused. For 30 years he was a hero to hard pressed Georgia dirt farmers; The Thomas E. Watson Song is still sung in the Georgia back country. Debs admired Watson, Bryan feared...
Material from the actual script of the show having been banned because of its "political nature" the broadcast will consist of several specially prepared skits as well as the first public rendition of the hit songs. Tunes to be played are "Livin' the Life" by Alan J. Lerner '40, "Look Before You Leap" by Stanley Miller '38, and "I'm Sorry but We'll Have to Say Goodby" and "Night Song" by Benjamin Welles...