Word: songs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When she could make herself heard, Raquel Meller began her U. S. career with a simple Spanish folksong, a song which might be the distant Castilian cousin of "Old Black Joe." It was so simple, so undemonstrative, that the connoisseurs after listening intently were conservative in their applause. The lights went up and they rustled their programs to find the condensed translation of the next song. The lights went down, Meller sang; again the applause was careful, a bit puzzled. From 9:15 to 10.45 it continued?songs of love, toreadors, religion, clothes?with one long intermission in which...
...about 10:30, something happened. For the next-to-last of her baker's dozen of songs, Meller chose "Flor del Mal" (Flower of Sin). It tells, with the utter simplicity of all Meller's repertoire, the hopeless, disdainful story of a street girl. Her clothes were shoddy, ill-fitting; her hair slovenly, black about her forehead. Midway in the singing Meller moved out on a little platform almost over the heads of the first row, and lighted a cigaret. She smoked it singing and walked over to lean, dejected, against the stage wall. The song ended and she disappeared...
...worship," Dr. Ernest Bourner Allen of the Pilgrim Congregational Church in Oak Park, III., has devoted recent Sundays to "Little Journeys in Worship," has presented to his truly tolerant congregation "A Morning of Russian Anthems," "Jewish Forms and Music," "The Episcopal Forms of Worship" and "A Jewish Passover Song...
...funniest scenes of the play center on Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Craigle, played by J. M. Gates '27, and C. T. F. B. lyon '27. This pair, as the henpecked husband and the nagging wife, sling some gags that will make your hair curl, and exude one song, "Life Is No Bed Roses" that, in the words of one of the Graduates' Night audience, is "sure fire...
...character of these songs is admirably varied, selections being offered from such different composers as Gershwin and Bach. Perhaps the most interesting phase of the program is a group of four folk songs each one of which represents the local music of a different country. "The Keeper" is an old English folk song, and will head the list. Next will be sung "Men of Harlech," the well-known Welsh anthem, after which will come "The Londonderry," Irish as its name implies. The last will be chosen from among the folk songs of the Continent and is called "The Firefly...