Word: song
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Song. Set up by Premier John Diefenbaker three months ago, the Royal Commission on Publications is headed by the Ottawa Journal's president and editor, Michael Grattan O'Leary, also includes John George Johnston, a Toronto public-relations man, and Montrealer Claude Beaubien, vice president of the Aluminum Co. of Canada Ltd. The committee's assignment: to prepare, for parliamentary action, recommendations that, "while consistent with the maintenance of the freedom of the press, would contribute to the further development of a Canadian identity through a genuinely Canadian periodical press...
...belly). With the composer and his wife themselves adapting the tale, the entire effort seems to have been embarrassing and painful to Prokofiev. As he had promised, he did weave a number of tuneful folk motifs into his usual sophisticated, modernist composition, even included a vintage Red army marching song. But the composer seemed somehow unable to conceal his treasonable pessimism and basic disbelief in the opera. When his hospitalized hero grabs a nurse and gaily dances on artificial legs to prove to doctors his fitness for combat, the music is merely polite and detached, fails to milk the emotion...
Hoorah for the Red, White and Blue! (Golden). A masculine. 14-song choral salute to flag and country (The Caissons Go Rolling Along, The Halls of Montezuma) that goes off with a rousing, old-fashioned Fourth of July bang...
...Song and Play Time with Pete Seeger (Folkways). Only a tossed coin could choose between Burl Ives and Pete Seeger in folk-song appeal. Purists may find Seeger's numbers a shade more authentic or the twang of his guitar a trifle more personable...
Later on in the afternoon he waxed a bit more serious, but still made his point comfortably in introducing the theme of the International Battalion, Freiheit." "This is a song about men," he explained, "who fought against Hitler, Mussolini, and Franco a few years before it was fashionable...