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The program started off ascetically with "Six Studies in English Folksong" which the program warned us were "very melancholic," continued with a song cycle for violin and tenor called "Along the Field" to poems by A.E. Houseman, and finished off the first half with insanely Pre-Raphaelite lushness to a song cycle set to Dante Gabriel Rosetti poems called "The House of Life."
Archive 2008-02-01 sfmike 2008
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The program started off ascetically with "Six Studies in English Folksong" which the program warned us were "very melancholic," continued with a song cycle for violin and tenor called "Along the Field" to poems by A.E. Houseman, and finished off the first half with insanely Pre-Raphaelite lushness to a song cycle set to Dante Gabriel Rosetti poems called "The House of Life."
Thomas Glenn Sings Vaughan Williams sfmike 2008
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He also starred in the revue An Another Thing, and recorded a single of a song from the show entitled "Folksong".
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He also starred in the revue An Another Thing, and recorded a single of a song from the show entitled "Folksong".
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He also starred in the revue An Another Thing, and recorded a single of a song from the show entitled "Folksong".
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I didn't put those two (the Cornell Folksong Club Wendy Grossman and the tech policy writer Wendy Grossman) together for some reason.
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She wrote Voices of a People: The Story of Yiddish Folksong, a book that explores the oral tradition as a binding link between past and present and as a way to infuse our own historical and cultural moment with meaning.
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She wrote Voices of a People: The Story of Yiddish Folksong, a book that explores the oral tradition as a binding link between past and present and as a way to infuse our own historical and cultural moment with meaning.
Personal Information for Ruth Rubin Jewish Women's Archive 2010
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Her song collections A Treasury of Jewish Folksong, in Yiddish and Hebrew (New York, 1950) and Jewish Folk Songs, in Yiddish and English (New York, 1965) also included valuable discussions of the origins of the lyrics and melodies.
Ruth Rubin. 2009
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Her book Voices of a People: The Story of Yiddish Folksong (New York, 1963; republished in 2000 by University of Illinois Press) explored the historical background and ethnic meaning of the song texts, treating them as important literary materials.
Ruth Rubin. 2009
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