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...addition to the speakers, there will be both decorations and music. The VFW anthem which has just been completed, will be sung to the tune of the Vagabond Song...
...Glee Club's offering at the concerts will be Bach's monumental "St. Matthew's Passion," a work which is so long that it is always split into two parts, the first of which is sung before dinner. Refreshed, the Club will then return to complete the second two hour section of Bach's magnum opus...
...serious discussion: "Are fairies real?" 'Tis a pity little ones doubt so young. Of course fairies are real. Real as Peter Rabbit and Easter bunnies; real as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck; real as Robinson Crusoe and unfound treasures; real as princesses and bold Knights; real as songs never sung and poems never written; real as Cinderella and kind thoughts; real as the dreams of children--and who will doubt that these are real...
...Excelsior served as a handout in 1877. The original Spotless Town jingles were submitted to Morgan's in 1899 by a Cornell undergraduate named Eraser, later a partner in the advertising agency of Blackman & Co. Given away by the million in grocery stores, these and later lyrics were sung by vaudeville troupes, dramatized for church and school entertainments, clinched Morgan's thesis on "How to Become Great" in the company's Witchcraft magazine in 1904: "Diligence, Perseverance, and Genius May Be of Some Help, but it is Ingenious Advertising that Tells in the Long...
...other side holds that listeners get more from the music if they are not straining to catch every word that is sung. Most translations are inept, a handicap to real enjoyment. In the first act of Madame Butterfly it is obvious to any onlooker that Pinkerton is making love to Cho-Cho-San. Curving melody flows from the orchestra while he sings, "Just like a little squirrel are all her pretty movements." To many Tristan would seem foolish delivering a literal translation of his part in the exalted love duet. The music would be reaching its grandest climax while...