Word: songs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Henry's last line paraphrases the title of a hit song at the time...
Bone-Deep Showmanship. Sometimes reaching for a phrase with his hands, sometimes swaying or relaxed or snapping rigid, Belafonte husked his way through the folk songs of half a dozen countries, e.g., work songs from the U.S. and Caribbean, an old English love song, an Israeli march, a partisan song from France. Sometimes he sang with the orchestra and a twelve-man chorus, sometimes to the accompaniment only of Millard Thomas' guitar. Always he displayed a bone-deep sense of showmanship. At one moment he would have his audience roaring with him, as in Matilda ("Everyone sing the chorus...
...Ives was represented by his strangely polytonal "Sixty - seventh Psalm;" Randall Thompson '20, Rosen Profesor of Music, by "Alleluia," his best piece; Irving Fine '37, by "Have You Seen the White Lily Grow?"; Carl McKinley '17, by a portion of his dramatic legend The Kid, which incorporated American cowboy song material and is scored for piano and percussion; and Mabel Daniels by her rousing "Psalm of Praise" with piano, three trumpets and timpani, composed last year for the 75th anniversary of Radcliffe. Several of the composers were present to comment on their music...
...everlasting glory of the Dewey decimal system" in no way assisted the L.C. in its search for the song about the lobster. The Library of Congress uses its own system. MARJORIE W. SCHAAP Hollis...
...station-wagon load of mail every day," says Wright, "a lot of it from people who want to know the name of the song played at 3:12 yesterday afternoon." Yet when the station asked whether listeners wanted numbers identified on the air, 15,000 wrote in to scotch the notion. The music is also popular with merchants. "I asked a store clerk the other day where they got their nice music," says Wright, "and he said, 'Why, that's your station.' " WPAT's only problem is a product of its success: so many advertisers...