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...Marian Anderson, male chorus of the University of Pennsylvania Choral Society, the Philadelphia Orchestra with Eugene Ormandy conducting; Victor: 6 sides). The Rhapsodie, to gloomy verses by Goethe, nobly sung; the Lieder overdressed by orchestral accompaniment...
Critics applauded the composer for leaving pithy dialogue to be spoken instead of sung, for his generally apt orchestration and unobtrusive transitions. Like Poet Benet's verses, the music is homespun to a turn. Far less spontaneous and intense than The Cradle Will Rock (TIME June 28,1937), No. 1 operatic experiment with topical U. S. material, The Devil and Daniel Webster is well staged and occasionally rises above self-conscious Americanism...
...once sang at two command performances for King Edward VII. By old Mr. Morgan's request, Harry Burleigh sang Calvary at his funeral. Harry Burleigh is proud of all these things. But to St. George's Harry Burleigh's proudest achievement is that he has sung Faure's The Palms on every Palm Sunday for the past 45 years...
...Sung with neither smirk nor schmalz by onetime Preacher Frank Luther and a few assistants, these songs give a clearer glimpse of the old-time U. S. than many a ponderous history book. The U. S. soldier of the 1860's sang about his girl (Lorena), his mother (Who Will Care lor Mother Now?), his pesky bumps & bruises (Eating Goober Peas, A Life on the Vicksburg Bluff) as simply, sentimentally and humanly as his grandson did in the World War. Sample (North...
After a short program of Bach, Hindemith and Dvorak, sung by the club, all those present will be invited to join in singing a group of college songs...