Word: songs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sheets telling how "the Dean of the American Stage is working day and night, transforming his theatre into a veritable Hades," how "Belasco's version of Ferenc Molnar's Mima costs $300,000 to present," and lastly how this "lavish production will be Belasco's swan song." So a typical Belasco audience, in limousines, came to see Lenore Ulric in a play which contained devils, scenes of passionate affection and a huge machine for producing evil on the earth...
...beautiful letters was only a record of "what the Well Dressed Man will--write") and considering also that the Advocate's offices immediately adjoin my own tenement and that nightly the uproar occasioned by their service of the muse (consisting mostly of sounds of breaking glass and a song about a certain William, a nautical man) ascend to interrupt my musings upon the good, the beautiful and the true, considering, as I say, these prejudical circumstances, it might be expected that I should lay down on the Christmas number of this edifying periodical a barrage of overripe metaphorical greengroceries...
Christmas-time has always been the time for singing. The Yule festivities have changed from country to country and from century to century, but song has always had a part in them. Whether it is unconscious echo of the song of the angels over Bethlehem, or because music is the highest expression of the happiness that is the heart of the Christmas season, no one can tell. It is enough that men sing who do not sing at any other time...
...program is as follows: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men How Sweet, How Fresh Shoot, False Love Three Italian Folk Songs Dimmi, O Bella Tn Mi Vuoi Williams Paxton Morley Cantu Di Caccia Glee Club Piano Selections Shuman Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring J. S. Bach Chorus of "The Camel Drivers" Cesar Franck O. Jesus Tender Shepherd Arr. by Brahurs The Galway Piper Irish Folk Song Chorus from "The Gondoliers" Sullivan
...evening program is much the same, but with the addition of numbers by Vitali, Carissimi, Morley, and a German folk song arrangement by Brahms...