Word: songs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Some verses of H. S. Sanford have been set to music by Benjamin Carpenter and the song which is entitled "Will e'er my love come back to me" has just been published by Oliver Ditson...
...programme for this evening's Hofmann concert consists of Weber's Concertstuck and Liszt's arrangement of Weber's Polacca, with orchestra; and for solos, two original pieces, Mendelssohn's Spinning Song and an improvisation...
There is one circumstance which invests the present discovery with peculiar value and intere St. The document containing the signature has not passed into the domain of antiquarian curiosity; it has not been picked up for an old song, to be resold for a large sum at a literary auction; nor have we to trace its history from one person to another, as best we can, during a period of two centuries and a half, because it is to day in the same custody to which it was committed the moment the ink was dry from the pens...
...Year" is well rounded, but lacks strength and any noticeable beauty of thought. As for "Bits from the H. P. C. Play" they can hardly be excused even on the score of their being mere "padding" to fill up the number. While such versifying is very good for a song when the listeners won't hear the words in any way, it seems rather hard to expect anyone to enjoy reading them...
...Lewis' "Vacation Song" is a composition of merit and we do not think the Glee Club did as well as they might...