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...Real Ride. The one thing everybody knows about Paul Revere is his ride. But Biographer Forbes can only nod affectionately towards Longfellow's ballad. The Paul Revere who roused the Middlesex village and farms was no hotheaded youth, but a stocky family man of 40. Neither did he gallop in wild anapest down the road to Lexington. The lanterns that were hung in Christ's Church steeple ("one if by land, two if by sea") were not hung for Paul Revere. He had helped put them there. His ride was a cool, businesslike night's work...
Heroic highlight of this year's singin' gatherin' was the Ballad of Sergeant York, celebrating the deeds of Tennessee's World War I hero. It was composed by the late Jilson Setters, bristle-bearded fiddler who once sang mountain songs for the King and Queen of England. Sample stanzas...
...Ballad Singers was Elie Siegmeister, a dark, merry, 33-year-old Brooklyn composer (May Day for orchestra, We Want the World for chorus, Hip Hip Hooray for NRA, an operetta). Elie Siegmeister talks with a touch of Brooklynese, teaches composition and piano for a living, bicycles to Coney Island for exercise. When he gets interested, he gets interested. When he got interested in balladry eleven years ago, he pored over thousands of songs in the Library of Congress, picked up many a ditty by word of mouth. He now knows 800. He trained his Ballad Singers-six professionals-to sing...
...Ballad Singers' repertory goes back to the Pilgrims, and comes as up-to-date as Bataan. While the troupe's bus rolled through New York State, Siegmeister wrote a Ballad of Douglas MacArthur, which he sandwiched into his programs...
...year ago Victor published a Ballad Singers album. Next week a newcomer among phonograph companies, Bost Records, is putting out another Siegmeister album: Songs of Early America. Some of the songs: The Saint's Delight, A Virgin Unspotted, The Devil and the Farmer's Wife, Soldier, Won't You Marry...