Word: ballading
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...play with integrated songs and music). The ancient Greeks had a name for it, too-but Broadway is still trying to find out how to do it. Oklahoma! was a step in the right direction. Last week Experimental Theatre came closer yet. Composer Jerome Moross and Lyricist John Latouche (Ballad for Americans) had cooked up three song-&-dance plays called Ballet Ballads for Broadway's connoisseurs and critics to sample. The critics found the dance-music-drama experiments "no end diverting and pretty . . . both rare and welcome...
...their five children, aged one to 13 and ranging in talent from piano and trumpet through the cello. The nearest piano was an old upright in tiny Whiteside Church some miles away on a dusty country road. Gerschefski went there on foot each morning to work on his ballad, repay ing the parson on Sundays for the use of the piano by playing for the congregation...
...afternoon, while Gerschefski was working, a sudden summer thunderstorm came up and lightning struck the church's furnace, filling the structure with sulphur fumes. Gerschefski is not certain but what some of the lightning and sulphur remained in his composition. By summer's end the ballad was finished...
Although the music is Gerschefski's the lyrics are taken verbatim from TIME'S story in National Affairs, which was writen by Robert Hagy. The ballad's production became a Spartanburg communal project. It is arranged in four parts for orchestra, women's chorus and baritone solo. The baritone was a local coal and sand man; the orchestra and chorus were made up of college music students, housewives and Spartanburg businessmen. They rehearsed for weeks, not only for the ballad but also for the rest of the 35-year-old festival's program...
...that his ballad has had a hearing, Gerschefski is carrying another TIME clipping around in his pocket. It is a story called Man Overboard (TIME, March 1) and is concerned with the ship's carpenter who fell off the Grace Liner Santa Clara one bright day in the Caribbean and was miraculously recovered by his ship, which had discovered his absence and put about for him. Gerschefski doesn't know whether it will make a ballad like Half Moon Mountain, but he is strongly inclined...