Word: welshed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...back as records go the Welsh have been a singing people, rating a good voice next to royal blood, competing valiantly in song festivals, regarding music and poetry as national sports. Roman Poseidonius of Apamea noted in the second Century B.C., that the inhabitants of Wales "have poets whom they call bards, who sing songs of eulogy and of satire, accompanying themselves on instruments very like the lyre." Even hard-headed Julius Caesar, with his general's ear for music, mentioned in his Gallic War that the Druidic warriors "learn by heart a great number of verses." Scholars have...
Last week the walls of Manhattan's famed Carnegie Hall rang to the strong strains of Welsh folk-music. Most of the performing Cymry were born in Wales, now live in the U. S. The solemn, intense, long-skulled choristers of Cleveland's Cambrian Male Choir sang ancient Celtic hymns. New York's Welsh Women's Chorus, in scarlet capes and topper-like hats, proved that a language that looks shy on vowels need not sound unmusical...
...predominantly Welsh audience followed feverishly, with pouncing applause...
...program follows: Programme Choruses for Freemasons Mozart Soloist: J. L. Morrisson '38 Student Songs of the XVII Century, from "Studentenschmauss," (1626) Schein Bacchanale, from "La Belle Helene" Offenbach Canon: O du eselhafter Martin Mozart Men of Hariech Welsh Folk Song Harvard Tarantella Randall Thompson (Composed for and dedicated to the Yale Glee Club, 1937) Orpheus With His Lute Parker Bailey (poem by William Shakespeare) Hopei Schupei Czechish Folk Song The Testament Heinrich Marschner (student song of Heidelberg) Yale INTERMISSION Liebeslieder Brahms Choruses from The Yeomen of the Guard Sullivan Soloist: D. P. MacAllester '38 Football Songs Harvard Brave Mother Yale...
...juries "to exhibit a cross section of the growing public sentiment against liquor." Philadelphia's 20 juries represented not only the usual teachers, parents, businessmen, high-school students, ministers, mothers but a jury of twelve "redeemed men" from the city's Whosoever Mission. The chief justice (Judge Welsh) read them a charge which urged them to consider whether Alcohol is guilty of various capital crimes committed by people under its influence, of causing poverty, insanity and bodily disability. The juries could, if they wished, make use of "canned" verdicts written by Dr. Russell and condemning alcohol to death...