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...perpetrated the music of The Prisoner's Song. Some years ago, when it was heard on every radio program, I felt like inflicting physical violence upon all who tortured me with it. When I was 40 years younger than I am now, the same tune was sung to the following words...
From concerts by the Boston Symphony under Dr. Koussevitzky to those by the Works Project Administration's Orchestra, and from Bach's St. Matthew Passion as sung by the Glee Club to "Little Buttercup" as sung by the same chorus, Harvard offers a host of opportunities in the field of music. Not only does the University benefit from the artistic life in its own community but it also profits immeasurably from the numerous contacts with musical activities in Boston...
...Lowell will call the meeting to order, and will introduce several distinguished guests as speakers, including President Franklin D. Roosevelt, '04. There will be four musical items on the programme, which will begin with the 72nd Psalm (always sung at Commencement), and end with "Fair Harvard...
...Senator Steiwer went a passing mark for his cannonade but talk of nominating him for Vice President was heard no more. A memorial to him remained, however, in the song sung to the tune of Three Blind Mice with new verses contributed daily by eager Republican poets. Examples...
...days at Cleveland, bands at the Republican National Convention played Oh! Susanna 1,800 times by official count. Into a class with The Sidewalks of New York and California, Here I Come passed the old banjo ballad written by Stephen Foster nearly 100 years ago and first sung into U. S. tradition by the gold-rushing Forty-Niners...