Word: songs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sails of this action, the Moore score varies from lovelorn luffing to a spanking breeze. Its heartiest melodic moment is Daniel Webster's song...
...native of Erie, Pa., Harry Burleigh left his job as janitor when he won a four-year scholarship to Manhattan's National Conservatory of Music. Head of the Conservatory was Anton Dvorak. After supper, Dvorak would coax another Negro song out of young Burleigh's teeming repertory. Shortly afterwards appeared Dvorak's New World symphony, the first to use Negro spirituals...
...Stars and Stripes Forever," March Sousa *Overture to "William Tell" Rossini *Cradle Song Brahms (Orchestration by G. H. L. Smith) *Waltz and Bacchanale, "Faust" Gounod *"Triana" from "Iberia" Albeniz (Orchestration by E. F. Arbos) *Barcarolle from "Tales of Hoffmann" Offenbach *Suite, "Peer Gynt" Grieg Morning Mood-Anitra's Dance--In the Hall of the Troll King Women's Glee Club of the State Teachers College at Bridgewater *"On the Beautiful Blue Danube," Waltzes Strauss *"Turkey in the Straw" Guion *American Fantasy Herbert *Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square...
Notes between the notes: "Doojie-Woogie," Johnny Hodges' latest effort for Vocation, is well worth getting. It has the usual weird alto sax of the leader and some very fine rhythm riffs . . . Mildred Bailey sings a song from the Mikado, "Tit Willow," and despite shrill shricks of horror from the Savoyards, it still is an excellent job . . . Blue Note, a private recording concern of New York City, has just released its third and fourth records, a ten and twelve inch platter of the blues, with such stars as Frankie Newton and Albert Ammons taking part. While the recording wasn...
...program for the evening will include "The Lamb That Was Slain For Us" by Bach; "Martinslied" by Hindemith; "Gram," a Czechoslovakian folk song arranged by Dvorak; three madrigals by Gastoldi; "Miserere" by Allegri; a French folk song, "Sone Cornouailais"; and choruses from "Iolanthe" by Gilbert and Sullivan...