Word: songs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...else could have cried the song with the same blue, bittersweet sadness. No one else could have filled the familiar words with the same heart-heavy longing for rest and ease. So they turned on a phonograph and let Big Bill Broonzy sing Swing Low, Sweet Chariot at his own funeral...
...close of several books of the Bible, women are praised. Which books are they? Answer: Esther, Ruth, Solomon's Song...
...given birth to a son. Marco. Tempted though he was to fly home for a prompt look at his heir, Domenico decided that the show must go on. He showed up at the Sullivan show, and to no one's surprise, sang Nel Blu. Domenico already has another song written to celebrate the baby's arrival. Its title: lo (I). Says he: "It means 'What is this man coming happy in the street? Why he smile at everybody? He is happy because he is a miracle...
Anxious angels may wonder if they will get their wings clipped by Goldilocks, the Walter and Jean Kerr musical due on Broadway this fall; even Rodgers and Hammerstein may worry about their forthcoming Flower Drum Song. But there is one show in the works that simply cannot miss. Title: Moscow-Cheryomushki. Composer: Dmitry Shostakovich. Book: by Vladimir Mass and Mikhail Chervinsky, two reliable party-line pros. Opening is scheduled for December at Moscow's Operetta Theater, but insiders last week got a preview of the vehicle that is to brighten Russia's winter season...
...vigorous septuagenarian, Perse calls Seamarks "my last song." Yet he still intends to write his memoirs ("I have been trusted with many secrets which not even the Foreign Ministers knew about"), and he would like to do a book about the U.S., drawing on the notebooks he kept in travels from Maine to Arizona. Reserved, aristocratic, a grey eminence both in diplomacy and letters, St.-John Perse has always cherished what was "beyond time, not of it." His poetry reflects this quality of timelessness and universality...