Word: songs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Apparently the University has forgotten. Dean von Stade, at any rate, seems certainly to have forgotten one evening in 1935 when, as the CRIMSON reported, "with Rudy Vallee and his 38-piece ensemble striking the key note in a triumphal rendering of the 'Stein Song', the annual Freshman Smoker took place..." Among the other featured performers on the programs, it seems, were "Ann Graham, platinum girl," "Al Bernie, 14-year-old boy marvel," and an officer of that year's freshman class by the name of F. Skiddy von Stade...
...Festival depended on the entire Boston area. The pro- ducers even placed one ad in the New York Times because, as Hunt explains, "Many people around here don't read the Boston papers." The response was overwhelming, proving decisively that "people don't necessarily want to see Desert Song in the summer," he feels...
...program began with a song cycle for baritone and piano by Thomas Beveridge, sung by the composer, with Frederic Rzewski accompanying. The four songs, based upon a German text, treat each of the seasons in turn: Fall (prayer), Winter (song of the inner soul), Spring (creation), and Summer (music of the spheres). Beveridge writes in a modal style. His lyrical melodies, though expressive, are seldom very distinctive. The pieces contain an abundance of material out of proportion to their length, for the music attempts to follow every change of the text without being sufficiently integrated. The form of the songs...
...York, Monod thinks it is even worse back home in Paris. And he also has found, not without benefit to his cause, that it is possible to "sell anything to Americans"; so he has remained here and. over six years, has "sold" some piano and song recitals on his own, mostly at colleges and universities...
...almost invariably killed, or branded. And to heap indignity upon extinction, they are not even allowed the social graces of the Cangaceiros, who are tricked out in the fanciest rigs since Desiree (Napoleonic pampa hats and costume, bejeweled cartridge belts) and who have a neat back-in-the-saddle song which, fortunately, they sing quite...