Word: songs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...program for these services will be as follows: Organ Prelude: a Prelude in G major Bach b Pastoral Symphony from The Messiah Handel Choral: "O my Deir Hert" Bach Carol: "Christmas Song" Holst Carol: "When He was born" Neapolitan Melody Carol: "The First Noel" Traditional Carol: "Bring a Torah Jeanette, Isabella" French Melody Carol: "Christ Is Born of Maiden Fair" Gauntlett Congregational Hymn: "Adeste Fideles" Reading Carol: "Le Miracle de St. Nicolas" Lorraine Melody Carol: "Les Anges dans Nes Campagnes" Old French Melody Chorus: "How Beautiful are the Feet" from The Messiah Handel Organ Postlude: Halleujah Chorus, from The Messiah...
...less interesting than in some that have preceded. Or it may be obscured by a frequently infelicitous translation which fortunately is covered up to some extent, by the rich heavy, menotenous reading of the mass of the lines: this general tonality perhaps with the exception of the plain song--offstage--is the most effective element in the production...
...Venetian Love Song...
...Shubert Song of the Flame--8.20 o'clock. From Moscow to Paris in three acts. Not a very thrilling ride...
Vachel Lindsay is a poet without art; he is an inspired poet without art; he has inspiration without taste. Not tasteless is the inspiration that has Vachel Lindsay, but I mean that his inspiration, the song on his lips, is not restrained by dictates of taste. Not restrained at all is his inspiration, not by question of taste at all, not by question of art at all, not by question of what-is-absurd-and-what-is-not-absurd at all. For absurd often is his inspiration, not dictated, no, nor emendated, not yet always ill-fated, for children...