Word: songs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Radcliffe's Drumbeats and Song production of Leonard Bernstein's Wonderful Town netted betwen $2,500 and $3,000 Nina C. Rolnick '59, chairman of the Grant-in Aid fund, announced yesterday...
Breaking from its unsuccessful tradition, Radcliffe's Drumbeats and Song last night produced a delightful version of Leonard Bernstein's Wonderful Town...
Drumbeat and Song's recovery with Wonderful Town combines the talents of the two female leads with a strong supporting cast in what is one of this season's most ebullient productions. The only regrets of last night's appreciative audience concerned the brevity of the show's run and the modesty of the cast in ignoring the repeated cries of 'encore...
Currently China's people are being exhorted by song ("Manure Sources Are Plentiful") and slogan ("Make manure by soaking and smoking") to accumulate 10 billion tons of fertilizer. But so many Chinese are tied up on other "shock programs" that despite China's 600 million-man labor force there is a shortage of manure collectors; to find hands for the task, Hopei province has been obliged to abandon eight out of twelve high-priority irrigation projects planned for this year...
...Dello Joio's 15-minute cantata performed in Kansas City was adapted from Poet John Dryden's famed A Song for St. Cecilia's Day, a poem intended, in Dello Joio's words, as "a big hymn glorifying music in the cosmic sense-the miracle of it all." Sung by the University of Kansas Choir with brass accompaniment, the work often had the rich sonority of a cathedral organ. A simple, stirring work with no sharply dissonant edges, the cantata was marked by the melodic interplay of brasses and voices and by some stunningly lush vocal...