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...modern reader seldom realizes that most Elizabethan, Jacobein, and Restoration lyrics were written to be sung; and as a result, he misses much of their intrinsic charm and beauty. This volume of the songs of John Dryden, collected together for the first time, includes the original music by Purcell, Grabu, and Draghi, never before made available to the public. In it one can now study the poems as they were originally presented, as Restoration audiences heard them first...
...Slowly he smeared his face with yellow paint, donned a snakey-cued China-man's wig. For that last afternoon he had chosen to sing in Franco Leoni's L'Oracolo, a one-act opera, second rate to be sure, but one which only he had sung at the Metropolitan, one which exhibited his talent for acting and made no strenuous demands on his voice...
Long years ago he strummed a reverent guitar while hymns were sweetly sung by "The Little Flower" of Lisieux. famed Thérèse Martin who died in 1897. Later M. Chéron was six times Mayor of Lisieux in Normandy, zealously promoted the I. S. L. F. (International Society of the Little Flower). In 1925 the Society and M. Chéron knew boundless joy when Thérèse of Lisieux was officially canonized in Rome as St. Thérèse of the Infant Jesus...
...Beecher's Church in Brooklyn. The first time he heard them Preacher Beecher, as ardent an abolitionist as his sister Harriet Beecher Stowe, sat down and addressed a letter to his parishioners: "Avail yourselves of a rare opportunity to hear a style of music rapidly passing away, music . . . sung as only they can sing it who know how to keep time to a master's whip...
Sixty-one years ago in Cincinnati eleven Negroes who called themselves the "Colored Christian Singers" shambled onto the platform of the old Vine Street Congregational Church. All eleven had been slaves, eaten hominy and bacon breakfasts in rude, smoky cabins, worked all day in cottonfields, sung spirituals in the light of the moon around their cabin doors. But they sang no spirituals that night in Cincinnati. Spirituals were slave songs. Accordingly they sang orthodox hymns and temperance pieces which made less impression on the audience than the rusty, ill-fitting suits the men wore and the women's dresses...