These songs are a living legacy – functioning beacons of hope and history.” Spirituals in Jubilee All Them BonesBalm In GileadDeep RiverDere’s No Hidin’ Place Down HereDidn’t My Lord Deliver DanielDo Lord Remember MeEzekiel Saw the WheelGo Down, MosesGonna Ride Up in the ChariotGood...
I’ve long said that I could go the rest of my life without hearing another Beatles song. Because they’ve been played ad infinitum for 60 friggin’ years.Basta! Not even the dulcet tones of Lucinda Williams, whom I adore, could overcome the I’m-so-tired-of-hearing-Beatles-songs weari...
” another actors-defy-the-Nazis-drama, scored highly by daring to be genuinely funny. More pertinently, Joshua Sobol’s 1984 play “Ghetto” used documentary evidence and songs from the Vilna ghetto to tell an almost identical but more powerful tale....
Story of One of the Most Popular Songs of the Day—Miss Foster “Didn’t Intend to Write a War Song” —Its Faith and Pride in Our Men Is the Note That Touched the Public Heart, She Believes See the original page, read the story 7 DECEMBER 1918 Page 3 RACHMANINOFF CHAMPIONS MUSIC OF...
While “show tunes” may call to mind retro kick-lines or sappy love songs, musical theater is not a thing of the past. For decades, audiences have flocked to Broadway theaters, high school auditoriums, black box spaces, and everywhere in between to experience the magic of live ...
(Elijah Kelley) actually became a little unlikeable to me, as a character, for the first time ever. Queen Latifah as the Wiz was a great casting idea, but fell a little short: it felt like the songs she had to sing were a little below her usual register, and she didn’t get to ...
“The Remains of the Day”, perhaps because it doesn’t ruin one’s recollections of the book or the film. Adding the songs in the way that Alex Loveless has done help the story along mainly in a through-composed way that explains both the thoughts and emotions of the characters involved...
Fabulous Thunderbirds, and Bruce and Charlie Robins. The venue features live, original music seven days a week. There wasn’t much dancing going on during the evening I was there, but I enjoyed Tuesday Night Song Swap, where Adam Carroll, Brian Keane, and Owen Temple shared their songs and...
"Soup Song"--from working man's songs during the Depression era. The lyrics go: 1. I'm spending my nights in the flop house. I spending my days on the street. I'm looking for work but I find none. I wish I had something to eat. Soup, soup, they gave me a bowl of soup,...
Dickey Betts,who partnered with Duane Allman to create the unforgettable two-lead-guitar sound ofThe Allman Brothers Band, diedApril 18that age 80. Following Allman’s premature death in 1971, Betts became the group’s de facto leader, contributing country-tinged vocals and classic songs like “...