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Some 63 years ago this small man, now stocky with his 73 years of alert living and thinking, was squatting, a puny, untutored boy, on the back stoop of his Battle Creek home. Chin cupped in hands, he was pondering on what to make of himself, and as the kaleidoscope of boyish day dreams passed across his fancy, he pictured himself standing in the open door of a schoolhouse, beckoning to enter a long file of dirty, unkempt children. This vision, he has said, "gave me the idea of my life work. I must prepare to give a chance...
...recalls several important occasions in his 50 years of piccolo playing when he has played before celebrities, and in contests of various kinds. Forty eight years ago, as a boy of 17, Bob rendered several of his tunes at the home of Benjamin Butler, at one time governor of Massachusetts, and famous lawyer. In commenting on this memorable occasion Bob was full of praise for the "poor man's lawyer" as he termed the late governor...
...program, the architectural music of Bach or Mozart is likely to appear with that of Debussy or Stravinski; the formless needs a background of form to make it so much as interesting to an intelligent enjoyer. The barn-dances, upon which you dwell, are of course merely the play-boy accompaniment of a period and have a folklorist sort of interest; they are not justly taken as typical of the movement you comment...
MUSICAL Song and dance and damsels are most divertingly combined in the following: Sunny, Louie the 14th, Big Boy, Artists and Models, The Vagabond King, The Student Prince, Rose-Marie, Tip-Toes, The Vanities, No, No, Nanette...
None the less, Wynken, Blynken and Nod and another lullaby, Little Boy Blue, were poetic masterpieces. And Eugene Field, the gaunt man who wrote them, put such a lyric fluency into whatever he wrote that he became known as "the children's laureate." He is best remembered as that today. No grown-up wishing to be popular with children allows himself to forget the words...