| 单词 | folk song |
| 例句 | Hans Scholl found himself in trouble when his leaders heard him playing a favorite Russian folk song on his guitar. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z “It’s an old folk song. Charlie didn’t have enough money to get off the T.” Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z The English Dancing Master, John Playford’s compendium of catchy regional folk songs and dances, was the most successful musical publication of Oliver Cromwell’s Commonwealth. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z And not for the last time in musical history, ‘art music’, the music of the wealthy, educated and privileged, was to be saved from itself by popular, or folk song, traditions. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Stella slipped into her own seat, next to the upright piano that Mrs. Grayson plinked out hymns and folk songs and ballads on. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Though she had never sung professionally, she had had the talent to—I learned she could sing folk songs, ghazals, even raga, which was usually a man’s domain. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z As the rise of recording pushed aside traditional music, some musicians made a point of recording traditional folk songs, so they would not be lost altogether. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Nearby, a group around the piano were singing folk songs with more volume than melody. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z It played “The River Shannon” and New York’s own folk song, “The Sidewalks of New York.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z This is an example of F Major Pentatonic in the folk song “Great Big House.” Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Walking home, the noisy women shook their old heads and sang a folk song that made them laugh uproariously: Marry a rooster, follow a rooster. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z She had stopped throughout the rural South to teach Negroes folk songs she had learned at the Library of Congress. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z As a guest of the Scandinavian peoples, she made it a point to learn their folk songs in the original languages. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z She sings French folk songs in a screechy falsetto, harbors a weakness for sherry, and regularly falls asleep standing up. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z In addition to pre-composed children’s songs or folk songs, children create their own make-believe dialog and songs while playing with each other, or their toys and dolls, or just while daydreaming. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Once I heard her humming a pretty melody in her room, some Korean folk song, but as I walked toward her doorway to hear it better she stopped immediately, and I never heard it again. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe by the end of the day, we’d all be singing folk songs and playing Frisbee. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z But no matter what they sang, always they finished off with one of Brooklyn’s own folk songs: “Mother Machree,” “When Irish Eyes Are Smiling,” “Let Me Call You Sweetheart,” or “The Band Played On.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “We’re going to sing a few folk songs,” he said, picking his banjo. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z This is an example of Aeolian mode in the American folk song “Aeolian Lullaby.” Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z She saw her mother curled beside her in a hut, singing folk songs under her breath, and she saw the way Mama’s eyes had rolled back in her head. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The Kodály Song Web contains hundreds of American and other folk songs from around the world, as well as musical information on every song to help teachers learn and teach them. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z His songs were meant to sound like up-market folk songs: immediately memorable, lyrically easily understandable and relatively predictable in shape. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z He collected dozens of folk songs from his native Hungary and used them in his method. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Later, as we sat around the bonfire singing folk songs and roasting marshmallows, I thought: This is what regular kids do. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z He was also a tireless collector and annotator of East European folk song, and is in fact one of the chief architects of a whole branch of music study known as ethnomusicology. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z This is an example of D Minor Pentatonic in the folk song “The Canoe Song.” Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Grieving in their dugout that night, someone started to sing a folk song. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The next selection from the radio was a group of Italian folk songs. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Then she raised her hands and waved them grandly, and we began a medley of American folk songs—which are supposed to make your heart swell patriotically. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z The tune, somehow, is immediately wrenching, its measures plead in near arpeggios, and like any good folk song it makes the voice of its singer sound lost, or forlorn, incomplete. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The crowd clapped along with the singers, laughed at the comedians, and sang folk songs and songs of the movement. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Many Western children's songs, folk songs, and pop songs are in this category. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z He plays mostly folk songs and the others hum with him. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z From commercial music—pop and rock to jazz, from folk songs to national songs, religious and holiday songs, and multicultural music—children hear the rhythms, melodies, and harmonies that make up their musical environment. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Someone’s playing a guitar on the steps of Low Library, a folk song, but nobody’s listening. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z After the folk songs came a group of operatic arias. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Usually nobody remembers who originally wrote it, or who changed it, and there may be more than one version of any particular folk song. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z I turn up the music—a moody folk song I don’t recognize. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z Nearby, a group around the piano were singing folk songs with more volume than melody. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The excitement spreads and the air explodes with Hebrew and Yiddish folk songs. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z These days, guitarists who want to play a well-known pop or folk song can do so simply by reading a chart with the names of the chords. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z For hours and hours he sang these folk songs he had picked up over there; really significant songs that proved my theory that music should basically be an instrument of social protest and expression. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Some girl started singing a famous old folk song called “This Land Is Your Land.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The song “A Ram Sam Sam,” for example, is a traditional Moroccan folk song that contains many simple repeating patterns. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z This is an example of Dorian mode in “Scarborough Fair,” an English folk song. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Downstairs at the reception following the ceremony, Mommy perked up even more as the klezmer musicians played traditional Jewish folk songs. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z But Price did not only quote folk songs. Welcoming a Black Female Composer Into the Canon. Finally. 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z “Well, all the songs that I’ve heard in my life was folk songs. I’ve never heard horses sing none of them yet!” Meet the Next Generation of Black Folk Singers 2023-11-14T05:00:00Z There are new songs that echo folk songs, and traditional songs reworked to sound contemporary, and they succeed thanks to the quality of her writing. Bella Hardy: Battleplan – review 2013-04-18T20:20:01Z Last year’s “Make My Head Sing” is her first album without Auerbach at the helm, and it’s a collection of rueful, understated folk songs. Your week in Seattle music: Meghan Trainor, Hozier and more 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z Of course he did, he was seeking English folk songs from the descendants of the people of these islands. Response: This great folk song collector was not a controlling manipulator 2011-04-01T07:00:02Z The score, which draws on Russian folk songs and liturgical chants, is written for four pianos — an oddity — and a hefty percussion section, in addition to a large chorus and four vocal soloists. Why Is Bronislava Nijinska Still Waiting in the Wings? 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z Rooted in the folk songs of Appalachia, the playlist of the original Carter family grew and was spread in those early years by the powerful signal of a Mexican radio station. Review: Generations of Music by the Carter Family, Documented 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z Reading audiobooks has a lot in common with singing folk songs - you need to remember not to over-dramatise because you then risk drawing attention to yourself rather than the story. On my radar: Jon Boden's cultural highlights 2013-07-27T23:05:00Z A mustachioed British gent introduces “Sleeping Beauty and the Pea” with the traditional Scottish folk song “My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean,” complete with rousing audience participation. 2 holiday shows that revel in silly business| Theater reviews 2012-12-20T22:01:24Z Periodically he gathers with a group of friends to play British folk songs, and it is clear that he still views himself as a man in the cultural vanguard. | 'Down Terrace': Trying to Sniff Out a Rat Hiding in a Toxic World 2010-10-14T23:21:00Z They went on to perform included music by Wagner, Gershwin and Dvorak as well as a Korean folk song. The stars whose gigs courted controversy 2013-07-01T11:12:52Z Sound artists use everything from sine wave generators to lectures, wildlife recordings, public space, bell ringing, electromagnetic fields – even the odd folk song. Sound art is here to stay 2010-05-07T12:27:00Z Giovanni, who sang Italian folk songs to his children — “My father inspired my love for music,” Mr. Bennett wrote in his autobiography — died when Anthony was 10. Tony Bennett, Champion of the Great American Songbook, Is Dead at 96 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z I started playing it again because it's a great song – it's also entered the realms of being a great folk song. Paul Weller and Bruce Foxton on Town Called Malice 2012-11-12T17:33:06Z Watson, a singer of bluegrass, country, blues and gospel music, is famous for his flatpicking style on the guitar and his interpretations of folk songs from bygone eras. Folk artist Doc Watson's responsive after surgery: agent 2012-05-25T22:38:33Z A section recalling American folk songs, all pentatonic melody and bare string drones in perfect fifths, referred to the public castigation of Mapplethorpe’s work by then-Sen. Review | In three parts, an artistic reexamination of Robert Mapplethorpe 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z Presented by the Cherry Orchard Festival, this is not Tchaikovsky’s opera, though some of his music is here, and Shostakovich’s, too, as well as folk songs both Russian and French. ‘Eugene Onegin,’ a Blended Version, at City Center 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z Hakka Chinese folk songs, operatic arias, a Mahler symphony and the recorded sounds of natural thunder provide the soundtrack. Taiwan's Cloud Gate Dance Theatre heads to L.A. with force of nature 'Rice' 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z Though it feels deeply American—it is so heavy with the energy of teen-agers, hot rods, and wide suburban boulevards—“Misirlou” is in fact an eastern Mediterranean folk song. Dick Dale, the Inventor of Surf Rock, Was a Lebanese-American Kid from Boston 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z If further proof were needed, Mr. Scholl provided it on Saturday evening, performing art songs and folk songs from 17th-century Britain in the intimate Board of Officers Room of the Park Avenue Armory. Review: Despite Battling a Cold, Andreas Scholl Delivers a Dynamic Performance 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z In transitioning from the before times — native languages and folk song — into the lingua franca of English and musical modernism, this onstage society seems to have gained little. Review: A Composer Creates Her Masterpiece With ‘Innocence’ 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z In concept this opera is a tapestry of American song, with evocations of ballads, jazzy Broadway numbers, folk songs, art songs and ditties. Music Review: Collegiate Choral, With Jane Fonda, in a Concert Version 2010-03-23T22:18:00Z A rousing encore of a traditional Taiwanese folk song brought the concert to a fine conclusion. Taipei Symphony makes Strathmore debut with pride and passion 2019-11-16T05:00:00Z There is nothing patronising about his "use" of folk songs, because they are so clearly born of love. Prom 25: Northern Sinfonia/Kathryn Tickell Band/BBC Singers ? review 2011-08-03T13:25:42Z “We do special music, chamber operas, theater pieces, folk songs and everything else that can serve to expand the whole range of vocal music.” Gregg Smith, Choral Leader Who Elevated Standards, Dies at 84 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z In the years after his father’s death, the younger Mr. Bernardi would listen to “An Evening With Herschel Bernardi,” an album of live performances of folk songs and stories. Michael C. Bernardi Channels His Father for a Day as Tevye in ‘Fiddler’ 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z Berg drew upon 12-tone techniques here, though the first movement deftly folds in musical evocations of a young woman’s youth in Vienna, with bits of waltzes and folk songs. Review: Michael Tilson Thomas, a Podium Hero, Returns 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z And so was born the first revival of English folk song and Sharp's career as a magpie gatherer of such material. Folk music: the times they are a-changin' 2010-05-22T23:05:00Z Like many great folk songs, Green Bushes expresses neither joy nor sadness, but something far more immanent. Prom 25: Northern Sinfonia/Kathryn Tickell Band/BBC Singers ? review 2011-08-03T13:25:42Z She grew up at the store too, working the aisles and cash register after school, and by age 16 she'd begun performing her own folk songs at local clubs. Ben Harper and his mom roam the store that was a childhood home 2014-06-28T04:00:00Z It doesn't cost a cent, Wiseman says, to fill your life with music: Sing folk songs around a campfire. Easy, economical ways to help kids embrace music 2011-06-25T03:01:04Z Music is a leavening ingredient here, with actors on trombone, guitar and accordion accompanying others who break into folk songs. A well-played, compact ‘King Lear’ at Folger Theatre But a couple of old, rustic Norwegian folk songs, sung in an enchanting a cappella, captured a more impish side of Ms. Krog’s personality. Review: Karin Krog, a Norwegian Star, Plays at Joe’s Pub 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z There, using cellphones as flashlights, they resumed their singing, filling the cold, cramped space with folk songs and carols until the sirens faded. Scarred by War, a Ukrainian Children’s Choir Finds Hope in Music 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z Friday, hear ancient Russian folk songs and get a free tango lesson. Dance, song from around globe at Crossroads 2011-11-02T23:29:06Z At the end of the day it’s Pan-American folk song, even with its high refinements of collective improvisation and even when small orchestras are involved. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-08-29T21:53:00Z Erraught also excelled in a set of folk song arrangements by Herbert Hughes, a contemporary of Britten’s, with a winning stage presence and a velvet pianissimo tone. Audience can’t help but show its appreciation for Irish song and opera 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z Best was his ingenious, succinct way of combining the visual and aural to show the roots of “Hoe-Down,” from Copland’s “Rodeo,” in a Scottish folk song. Music Review: New York Philharmonic’s Young People’s Concert 2013-05-26T21:47:04Z Its delicate folk songs, rendered mostly on acoustic guitar, are striated with loneliness. 6 Things to Do at Home This Weekend 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z “If it was never new and it never gets old, then it’s a folk song,” says Llewyn Davis, brandishing his guitar during a set at the Gaslight. Movie Review: ‘Inside Llewyn Davis,’ Directed by Joel and Ethan Coen 2013-12-05T13:00:01Z So, when I started to write songs for the first time, they were based on those folk songs, but with an important twist. Cornershop on their new album, six years in the making 2011-02-17T21:30:00Z They will release an album of traditional tunes and folk songs next month. Singing Cornish fishermen sign major-label deal 2010-03-18T18:11:00Z Sometimes, though, those silences are filled with the irresistibly plaintive tones of down-home folk songs and performed with increasing assurance as the show proceeds. Review: Songs Say What a Family Can’t in ‘Sundown, Yellow Moon’ 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z These horrors aren’t imagined; Mr. Sellars assembled the libretto from historical texts, including journals, poems and folk song lyrics of the time. Review: John Adams’s Newest Opera Returns to the Gold Mines 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z He plays a fast sanshin and guitar, and his reggae-inflected, electrified versions of old folk songs are infectious and unusually accessible to a Western ear. T Magazine: Island Records 2012-11-16T18:00:23Z The cello quartet sometimes produces an unsteady drone, sometimes spare counterpoint, sometimes strands of folk song. A Festival Adds to Opera’s Soaring Body Count 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z Woody Guthrie wrote what is one of the most recognizable American folk songs in 1940. Bob Dylan’s New York: A Playlist 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z The piece synthesizes searing episodes of modernist music with evocations of Hungarian folk song, Bulgarian dance, hints of Renaissance polyphony — you name it. Review: Ligeti Forward Celebrates a Master Modern Composer 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z In between them, the Young People’s Chorus sang folk songs and spirituals. Review: A Youthful Experiment Kicks Off Mostly Mozart 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z Rather than relying on dialogue, Fukunaga allows emotion to shine through musical performances — a school anthem, folk songs, drunken karaoke. ‘Ainu Mosir’ Review: A Crisis of Cultural Identity 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z But first comes a night singing a selection of international folk songs for their parents. Strings attached 2010-10-02T23:03:00Z Ms. Meath’s voice is natural, chipper and conversational, with melodies as direct as pop and folk songs. Sylvan Esso Keeps Electronic Pop Human 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z Her grandfather was a Mexican bandleader, and her father had serenaded her mother with Mexican folk songs in a beautiful baritone. Linda Ronstadt Has Found Another Voice 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z She excelled at her music studies, mastering Afghan folk songs as well as classical works. Far From Kabul, Building a New Life, With Music and Hope 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z He taught himself to play guitar and piano, listened to old blues, folk songs, Johnny Cash and Frank Sinatra, and wrote a lot of poetry as a steppingstone to songs. Joe Henry and the Art of Disappearing Into a Song 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z The collaboration produced an album of Bare's favorite folk songs, including works by Bob Dylan, Lead Belly and Woody Guthrie. Bobby Bare returns to RCA Studio B for new album 2012-11-20T20:32:08Z Be warned — there are a surprising number of folk songs. What You Should Watch This Weekend: ‘The Night Of’ and ‘The Circus’ 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z They sing their little hearts out and rock to the beat – even a backbeat sung in harmony – of traditional folk songs from across the world. Strings attached 2010-10-02T23:03:00Z Onstage at the Hollywood Palladium following the premiere, Johannes led the Foo Fighters through a growling folk song called “A Trick With No Sleeve.” Heartbreak leads Alain Johannes to 'Fragments and Wholes' 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z Periodically the movie stops in its tracks for brief serenades by a putative Greek chorus: a dapper white male quartet singing American folk songs and spirituals. | ?Happy, Happy': ?Happy, Happy,? Directed by Anne Sewitsky ? Review 2011-09-15T22:54:43Z His current set is a mix of originals, American blues and folk songs, interspersed with Led Zeppelin hits. Robert Plant Announces Brooklyn Show 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z The result was a kind of steampunk departure from the music of its forebears, riffing on both early minimalism and folk song in an intense and complex wash of twanging sound. Review | Folk songs, refracted: Soprano and percussion revisit Americana 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z It is made up of a “constellation” of installations, featuring recordings of the artist singing overlapping versions of 16th-century folk songs, or madrigals, at different spots around the financial district. Special Report: An Artist Whose Work 'Sounds Like Stars' 2010-10-13T13:00:00Z They find astonishing rhythmic freedom within the confines of their admirable discipline, a lilt to their phrasing that surely stems from the folk songs they so eagerly arrange and perform together. The Danish String Quartet’s ‘Prism’ Is Essential Listening 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z Mr. Waits was seeking to write, he said, “dwell-in songs,” a phrase used by a woman he learned about in a collection of folk songs from Alabama. Arts & Leisure: Tom Waits?s New Album, ?Bad as Me? 2011-10-20T11:01:09Z The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center enlisted the pianist Jeremy Denk to preside over two concerts this season, each built around works that draw on Eastern European folk songs and popular dance rhythms. Music Review: Dvorak?s Folk Music You Can Dance To 2011-03-16T21:53:56Z Several of her pieces, including “Green Point” and “One Girl’s Story,” are built around melodies that vaguely evoke British and American folk songs, and a hint of Debussy wafted briefly through “Takeda,” a lullaby. Music Review: Going Out on a Limb With a Koto and an Oud 2010-12-23T20:57:25Z I followed “Star” with “Boil Them Cabbage Down,” a classic folk song, and “Home on the Range,” a campfire staple. Travel: Mountain View, Ark., Folk Music Capital of the World FIDDLIN’ AROUND: The author of this nearly 200-year-old folk song is unknown, but it first gained popularity as a staple of minstrel performers. Top 10 Tunes You Think You Know (But Really Don?t) 2011-11-16T10:00:23Z He dangled the wonderfully surprising harmonic twists of the 25th variation like tempting bait and arrived at the 30th variation, a lighthearted folk song, with a deserved note of triumph. Sam Post’s confident — yet equally sensitive — take on Bach’s ‘Goldberg’ 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z On the piano-backed folk song “Mary,” Lenker recalls a friendship in lyrics that seem almost old-fashioned and yet also abstract in the manner of Gertrude Stein. The Ordinary Brilliance of Big Thief 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z In high school, she picked up guitar and began writing folk songs with outré harmonies, mimicking Joni Mitchell. A MacArthur for the Composer Julia Wolfe 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z She’d been in touch with the show’s vocal arranger, Liam Robinson, while he was in South Korea, she said, and he sent her a voice memo of an Irish folk song for a singalong. ‘1, 2, 3 … Exhale Together’: Broadway Families, Reunited at Last 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z There is nothing more boring than a classical enthusiast, and much the same goes for similar bores in folk song and dance and jazz, birdwatching, golf etc. Letters: Age, intelligence and musical taste 2012-07-17T20:00:05Z On the other end of the spectrum is Catie Turner, 17, a genuine eccentric who auditioned with searing original comic folk songs about feminism and suggests a possible Frankie Cosmos enthusiast. The New ‘American Idol’: Youth Gone Wild and an Understanding Dad 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z “And surely for me part of the reason that I could sing folk songs was because of Ronnie Gilbert. “ Ronnie Gilbert, Folk Singer for the Weavers, Dies at 88 2015-06-06T04:00:00Z Calling it “radical Jewish music,” he uses the composition series to explore Hebrew scripture and Jewish folk song, as well as the free jazz styles that have long informed his approach. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z She started performing folk songs in her teens. From Lucinda Williams, a Memoir as Flinty as Her Songs 2023-04-22T04:00:00Z But in Grieg’s vigorous Third Violin Sonata, pervasive allusions to Norwegian folk song and dance were short on crispness and distinctive character. Sitkovetsky, Qian show their talent and enthusiasm at Phillips 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z Or when he turned Bowie's Let's Dance from a folk song into the classic 1980s chart-topper. Nile Rodgers: It's About Time 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z In an essay he wrote for The New York Times in 1935, he wrote that to keep the work musically unified, he had decided to write “my own spirituals and folk songs.” The Complex History and Uneasy Present of ‘Porgy and Bess’ 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z More folk song than bel canto, they set zany poems by Matthew Zapruder, including a jealous ode to Canada in the style of a barroom drunk. NYFOS Next Features a New Work by Juantio Becenti 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z Thus, an empty room with a folk song playing in it is not likely to be dismissed as kitsch – it may be fairly banal, but it is not vulgar, ostentatious, garish. Kitsch art: love it or loathe it? 2013-01-28T14:42:13Z He toured the world, performing and collecting folk songs, in 1963, and returned to serenade civil rights advocates, who had made a rallying song of his “We Shall Overcome.” Pete Seeger, Songwriter and Champion of Folk Music, Dies at 94 2014-01-28T06:32:10Z A single tune might sprawl out to 20 minutes of elastic thrashing by his band; the agenda seemed to be hypnotic discovery, even within the parameters of a supposed folk song. Review: Ryley Walker Is Unsettled in a Chicago Way on ‘Golden Sings’ 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z Her melodies reach back to the hearty simplicity of folk songs; she uses the modes of Arabic classical music, but at times her improvisations also hint at raga, Japanese music and Tibetan overtone singing. Music Review: Ghalia Benali at French Institute Alliance Française 2013-05-16T21:42:33Z As in nursery rhyme or folk song, such a question is answered with a series of conditions: "When the kisses core hollow/ and the mattress sags sallow," etc. Poem of the week: Fruition by Rhian Edwards 2012-06-18T11:24:52Z In 1928 the American collegians embarked on their first European tour, bowling over audiences with folk songs and spirituals collected and arranged by the director they called Barty. It?s Yale Glee Club?s Year To Look Back, and Ahead 2011-04-07T21:17:25Z The Newcastle area was once the medieval kingdom of Northumbria, and the region has stubbornly held on to its identity, its folk songs and its sometimes impenetrable dialect: Geordie. Sting Frees Himself With the Writing of ‘The Last Ship’ 2013-09-12T12:00:01Z And, in truth, it was hard for the orchestra to compete with the splendid singing of some unusual folk songs by the chorus, led by Francisco J. Núñez, its artistic director. Review: A Youthful Experiment Kicks Off Mostly Mozart 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z “I’m taking the kind of darkness and the macabre aspect of old folk songs and pushing the envelope a bit,” he said. ?Wildwood,? a Book by the Decemberists? Colin Meloy 2011-10-11T17:28:57Z Oh Good Ale is a traditional English folk song swearing allegiance to beer above all else, performed by the Copper family of Rottingdean. Readers recommend: songs about beer - results 2012-07-12T11:37:11Z Then they launch into a heartfelt version of Iris DeMent’s contemporary folk song “When My Morning Comes Around.” Garrison Keillor reflects at the Hollywood Bowl, rehearsing for final show: 'I just want it to be good' 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z But he returned alone, to sing an unaccompanied Russian folk song, “The Sweet Night.” Review: Dmitri Hvorostovsky Sings of Life, Love and Sadness at Carnegie Hall 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z Modal melodies and intricate guitar-picking linked him to folk songs and blues. New Music: The Dude Sings 2011-08-15T22:07:21Z In the early 20th century, Bartók visited Hungary’s remote villages, collecting folk songs sung by peasants whose lives had not yet been touched by railroads or electricity. Taking Philip Glass to a place he need not go 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z “In my head I wish I was a rapper, but really I just write folk songs,” she said. The Secret to Yebba’s Debut Album? A Big Voice and Lots of Time. 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z Here, she joins Mr. Goldberg, a virtuoso American pianist with a knack for well-greased propulsion, in a performance of Latin American folk songs and anthems of resistance. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in NYC This Weekend 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z As songs become folk songs, and folk songs become anthems, their edge is often dulled by revision and repetition. “Deutschland über Alles” and “America First,” in Song 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z Or we just take a brief riff, an inspiration from a moment in a Mexican folk song, and we let that blossom into a song that feels more contemporary. A Word With: David Wax and Suz Slezak: David Wax and Suz Slezak on Their Music’s Mexican Influence 2012-09-04T22:13:59Z There is a whole cultural heritage that was lost because the Nazis largely misappropriated it—old folk songs from the nineteenth and eighteenth centuries, for instance, that we were never taught at school. The Bracing Honesty of “Belonging,” a Graphic Memoir About German Identity 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z For his latest album Americana - on which he reunites with his old band Crazy Horse - he has tackled old American folk songs. AUDIO: Neil Young: Depth, darkness and despair 2012-06-08T06:51:24Z “It was like making a new song from a folk song,” she said. How to Summon the Comic (!) Spirit of Martha Graham 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z Sang nothing but these folk songs, and they gave me the code for everything that's fair game. Grammys 2015: Excerpts from Bob Dylan's MusiCares acceptance speech 2015-02-07T05:00:00Z The program identified the droning melodies as ancient folk songs of the Persian Gulf, but after listening for a minute, Molly Jane declared “it’s psytrance!” In Kazakhstan, a World Expo Is All About Energy (and Dancing) 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z The first single, described as an acoustic folk song, Let Me Go will be released next month. Gary Barlow unveils new solo album 2013-10-04T11:46:37Z Haas's development of the authentic Czech sound, rooted in folk song, reached a peak of creative output in the ghetto, before he was transported to and murdered in Auschwitz. Terez?n: music from a Nazi ghetto 2010-06-12T23:05:00Z The vocalist Song Zuying, a Chinese superstar who sings popular arrangements of Chinese folk songs, performed three of them: “Little Back-Basket,” “Soaring Song of Miaoling” and “Flying Song of the Earth.” Music Review: New York Philharmonic Celebrates Lunar New Year 2014-02-02T22:29:54Z SUN Local dance groups perform Lithuanian, Estonian and Latvian folk songs in traditional costumes, 2 p.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2013-04-18T21:20:55Z Her family would attend fandangos, jam sessions central to son jarocho, or they’d gather around the table and sing traditional Mexican or Venezuelan folk songs. Silvana Estrada Arrives With a Devastating Album About Heartbreak 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z The duo created a genuine dialog between instruments, evoking mountain streams, folk song and the ebb and flow between poignancy and the acerbic so characteristic of Janacek. Review | Piano-violin duo brings mature eloquence to Phillips Collection 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z During a climactic scene, the matriarch, Mamá Imelda, sings a folk song called “La Llorona,” a reference to the traditional ghost story of a bereaved mother who kidnaps children to replace the ones she lost. In ‘Coco,’ Death Is the Point 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z "Our World in Song" finds Chinese pipa player Wu Man, Hawaiian ukulele player and slack key guitarist Daniel Ho and Cuban percussionist Luis Conte offering their multi-culti versions of folk songs from around the globe. Holiday music gifts: Leave the best for last-minute 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z In the finale, Hebrew, Arabic and Greek versions of the same folk song are performed separately and then overlaid as Mr. Savall’s way of showing the unifying power of music. Music Review: Jordi Savall?s ?Jerusalem? at Rose Theater 2010-05-04T21:05:00Z As a two-year-old, he mimicked jingles on television and sang Ukrainian folk songs. On a Stage 5,000 Miles Away, He Sings for His Family in Ukraine 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z Mr. Coyne, as usual, played the ringleader, with a side interest in distressed folk song. Music Review: A Team of Introvert and Extrovert 2011-07-29T21:45:29Z There are no puppets, folk songs or happy endings. Review: ‘Five Easy Pieces,’ an Unnerving Alliance of Children and Art 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z Combining pieces from his collaborative opera under the same title, Albarn blends those compositions with dark, personal folk songs, primarily composed of vocals and a classical guitar. Damon Albarn's Dr Dee: The Blur Frontman Takes a Moody Detour 2012-05-11T10:45:16Z When we got the Byrds going, I was into putting a Beatles beat, a 4/4 rock beat, to different folk songs. The Byrds' Roger McGuinn on His Special Bond With Pete Seeger 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z One of the first recordings he made, years later, for Radio Afghanistan was of a Pashto folk song he had heard as a child, which his mother helped him understand. An Old Master’s Song for the Nation That Broke His Heart 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z Most of her works, set to eclectic selections of classical and world music, folk songs, popular ballads and dance music, essentially offer a series of vignettes. Review: ‘Viktor’ Is Vintage Pina Bausch, Complete With Gravedigger 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z Born in Granada to modest means — his father is a retired police officer — Mr. Heras-Casado first showed interest in music when listening to the children’s and folk songs his mother sang to him. Pablo Heras-Casado, With Orchestra of St. Luke’s 2012-08-03T18:26:47Z They often resemble folk songs from the 1970s, sometimes set to reggae rhythms, sometimes decorated with little R&B guitar flourishes. For Cass McCombs, the truth is blowing in the apocalyptic breeze 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z He also consulted with the wife of Japan's ambassador to Italy, who knew of true stories very similar to Butterfly's and introduced him to Japanese folk songs from which he borrowed. Opera preview: 'Madama Butterfly' at Seattle Opera 2012-04-25T20:40:08Z The next third, straddling the intermission, offered Russian folk songs. Music Review: Moscow Sretensky Monastery Choir at Carnegie Hall 2012-10-17T22:12:44Z In every instance, the songs are real folk songs – with well-established pedigrees – only then given a big band makeover. Bellowhead: Broadside - exclusive album stream 2012-10-09T11:54:54Z After a rendition of “Old MacDonald” and the Australian folk song “Give Me a Home Among the Gum Trees,” we resort to the perennial dance classic — the Macarena. A scenic spin through the hills of southwestern China 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z I thought about my curly dark hair and Jewish nose and envisioned the entire Disney company, including CEO Bob Iger, ushering me out the door with a broom while singing Yiddish folk songs. I am not a Disney princess 2013-05-28T00:00:00Z When the group was touring with Anthony Newley in 1959, Mr. Doonican stepped forward at a party and, guitar in hand, sang some Irish folk songs and told a few stories. Val Doonican, Irish Singer and TV Host, Dies at 88 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z “The Muir,” set to ’s arrangement of nine Scottish and Irish folk songs, consists of little vignettes of love and death. Dance Review: Journeying From Head to Toe, With a Layover at the Heart 2011-03-18T22:21:21Z "I'm taking the kind of darkness and the macabre aspect of old folk songs and pushing the envelope a bit," he said. A dark lyricist turns to tales for children 2011-10-13T18:19:41Z Today, the area is a tangled-yet-inviting grab bag of grand squares, schoolyards, Art Nouveau storefronts, musty junk shops, classy antique shops, and street musicians strumming Catalan folk songs. Tourist-crowded Barcelona is vibrant and spirited 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z Wu’s solo pipa folk song arrangement “Kui: Song of Kazakhstan” trod a very different path, exploiting the pipa’s hoarse blend of mandolin and banjo timbres to create a kind of Asian-inflected, Slavic bluegrass. What true crossover sounds like, East-meets-West edition 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z As a young girl she was enchanted by the joyful poetry of folk songs, a repository of traditional lore and fairytales. Esma Redzepova 2010-08-17T13:00:00Z As the guy with the guitar began singing American rock songs and Swedish folk songs, the whole place came to life. Waffles, Gentle Slopes and Cloudberries Everywhere: Skiing in Sälen, Sweden 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z DM Stith’s rendition of Gabriel Kahane’s folk-mod ballad “Hard Circus Road” was delightful, as was Ms. Shaw’s own performance — this time as a singer — of her setting of three folk songs with string quartet accompaniment. The Shift Festival: A Reincarnation, With Cherry Blossoms 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z The Things I Say” begins like a modal folk song. Review: Joanna Newsom’s ‘Divers’ Shares Thoughts of Life and Death 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z That directly inspired the 1959 Broadway show, which replaced the Austrian folk songs of the film with Rodgers and Hammerstein numbers. The best English-language remakes – ranked! 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z Woody Guthrie saved paperwork documenting his peripatetic life, from utility bills for New York apartments to fliers protesting shanty demolitions in Seattle and lyrics for folk songs performed at a Los Angeles radio station. Antiques: Saving Scrapbooks From the Scrapheap 2011-08-04T21:59:48Z But soon he and young listeners learn that those chords are key to many folk songs, as well as to great works by Beethoven, Brahms, Copland and other composers. Spare Times for Children, for Jan. 25-31 2013-01-24T22:45:09Z On a stone bridge spanning the Gilão River, which splits the town in two and flows into the Atlantic, a three-piece band of guitar, accordion and tambourine played spirited folk songs. The Other Algarve 2013-07-19T16:35:02Z Ostensibly, it’s about a washed-up businessman who unearths his dead son’s lyrics and starts playing haunted folk songs at an open-mic session. William H Macy: ‘I’m scared and horny like a 14-year-old-boy’ 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z A segment of folk songs arranged by members of the choir included “Shenandoah,” a nod to America, segueing into “Waltzing Matilda,” a genuflection to Australia. Music Review: Australian Voices Focuses on Music From Home 2013-06-27T20:13:38Z The music roamed hither and yon, and back again — from fiddlers to folk songs of the Appalachians to ethnic songs of the big cities. Oscar Brand, Folk Singer Whose Radio Show Twanged for Decades, Dies at 96 2016-10-01T04:00:00Z Shawn Jaeger, in “Letters Made With Gold,” memorably reset the lyrics of three folk songs to spare, enigmatic melodies that leapt and oozed unpredictably. Music Review: A Star Brings Singers and Composers Together 2011-04-18T21:33:29Z They are a kind of folk song where direct poetry and accessible music eagerly meet. Carols for Christmas 2010-12-18T00:07:31Z Accompanied by only his guitar, Matthews crooned the folk song "Rye Whiskey" and played Young classics "My My, Hey Hey" and "The Needle and the Damage Done." Neil Young honored at Grammy event 2014-01-22T13:58:31Z The whole thing had a loose, communal spirit about it, too, reminiscent of the coffeehouses in which Mitchell got her start performing folk songs in the mid-1960s. Joni Mitchell Reclaims Her Voice at Newport 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z Like many folk revivalists, Belafonte dug into the folk song archives at the Library of Congress, and he chose songs with full awareness of their historical implications and heritage. Work, Love, Dignity and Play: 10 Key Harry Belafonte Songs 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z "Liege and Lief", with its mixture of ancient folk songs and Fairport originals played with the guitars and drums of a rock band literally electrified the British folk music scene. Fathers of folk-rock mark 45 years with family bash 2012-08-15T12:37:54Z If truth be told, the folk songs carried the day. Vienna Boys Choir brought down the house with a program of folk songs — and drums The music suggests a wistful folk song, cushioned by plaintive harmonies and restless lines in the instruments. Review: A Whispered Opera Requests Your Close-Up Attention 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z It’s a combination of three popular songs, German folk songs. Lang Lang, Piano Thunderer, Greets Bach’s Austere ‘Goldbergs’ 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z The concert includes folk songs collected and saved by the Armenian priest and musicologist known as Father Gomidas. Soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian hopes to give voice to her Armenian ancestors 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z Is she basically a singer of the a cappella, sean-nos Irish folk song in expanded form? Music Review: Sinead O?Connor at the Highline Ballroom 2012-02-26T21:35:23Z “This Land Is Your Land” is the most storied folk song in American history. From Woody to Lead Belly, the master of Smithsonian Folkways 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z The Full English, a project sponsored by the English Folk Dance and Song Society, is a digital archive of early 20th Century folk song collections. Full English win Folk awards double 2014-02-20T01:34:53Z Will Oldham — who performs folk songs as Bonnie “Prince” Billy — is a good example of how that works. Lady Gaga’s ‘Joanne’: Where the freaks have no game 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z Her voice, which had a raspy, jazz-inspired tone that she harnessed to interpret traditional and modern folk songs, sounded perfectly imperfect, filled with Billie Holiday swing, Bessie Smith body and Marlboro Man grit. 'Remembering Mountains' a remarkable tribute to Karen Dalton 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z That's what folk music is and this is a folk song. Darius Rucker rides 'Wagon Wheel' to top of charts 2013-05-23T13:15:25Z Some airs are small dramas; others more like folk songs. William Christie, with small Les Arts Florissants group, works magic 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z His recent solo record, “Upside Down Mountain,” is a sophisticated, earnest folk song cycle. Pop and Rock Listings for Dec. 5-Dec. 11 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z Named after the Serbian general, Mladic sounds like a traditional folk song played by the devil. Godspeed You! Black Emperor – review 2012-11-05T19:08:58Z This retrospective brings together his polychromatic paintings of Native Americans, intimate drawings commenting on the country’s violent history, and original poetry, folk songs and letters to emphasize the full breadth of his singularly hybrid vision. 38 Art Exhibitions to View in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z To cope with the trauma of war, she takes walks in a park in Warsaw, where a Ukrainian guitarist plays folk songs at sunset. An Orchestra Supports Ukraine, and Reunites a Couple Parted by War 2022-08-14T04:00:00Z These, he explained, were based on Ethiopian folk songs, but the European development techniques were so firmly in place that it was often hard to hear the East African elements. Girma Yifrashewa’s blend of European piano and Ethiopian music 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z As she says, "It sounded so fresh. Almost like a folk song that wasn't a folk song." Janis Ian opens up about the backlash to "Society's Child" 2022-01-29T05:00:00Z In “Jardí Tancat,” done to Catalan folk songs, three men and three women play peasants being earnest, honest and suffering while experiencing a few of life’s fleeting joys. Dance Review: At Miami City Ballet, Edward Villella’s Tenets Live On 2014-01-13T22:49:55Z His love of folk song and his natural lyricism produced song settings of wistful poignancy, especially the Ludlow Town poems of AE Housman. EJ Moeran: Complete Solo Songs 2010-05-22T23:05:00Z In his view, bringing elements of rock into the concert-music world extended a tradition of composers borrowing from vernacular styles, like folk songs. Scott Johnson, Playfully Inventive Composer, Is Dead at 70 2023-03-26T04:00:00Z Some of the original folk songs have dramatic, violent texts. Alexei Ratmansky’s Elective Affinity, Musically Speaking 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z A traditional folk song recorded at the Gaslight, the one Village coffeehouse Mr. Dylan seemed to prefer over the others. Bob Dylan’s New York: A Playlist 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z He began recording albums of folk songs for the Elektra label in 1955, shortly after he arrived in the United States, singing in Yiddish, Hebrew, German, Russian, medieval Spanish, Zulu and English, among other languages. Theodore Bikel, Master of Versatility in Songs, Roles and Activism, Dies at 91 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z A rootsy folk song by Mr. Sater and his “Spring Awakening” collaborator Duncan Sheik adds to the poetic spell of this evocative, if somewhat opaque, vignette. | Marathon 2011: Series B: Women Rule a Marathon of New One-Act Plays 2011-06-15T21:57:05Z And in 1948 she co-starred with Gene Krupa in the movie “Glamour Girl,” playing a backwoods girl who sings folk songs and is brought to the big city to perform. Susan Reed, a Fleeting Star in a Folk Music Revival, Is Dead at 84 2010-05-02T00:44:00Z It's an unlikely recipe for success for Sheeran, who slowly built a devoted fan base in this country with plaintive, modestly scaled folk songs like "The A Team." Ed Sheeran: Pop stardom's thoughtful misfit 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z They both do justice to performing the movie's array of folk songs, most of which are either pre-1930s standards or originals written by Mann, the film's composer, Nick Hans, or both. 'Jackie & Ryan' a strong duet of searching musical souls 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z Forty-five members of the Vakhtangov State Academic Theater of Russia bring their adaptation, studded with folk songs, to City Center as part of the Cherry Orchard Festival. Theater Listings for May 23-29 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z Houston sang Brazilian folk songs by candlelight in Paris. Review | Glamour, gossip, sex, scandal: Man Ray’s portraits captured Paris between the wars 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z Their pedal-powered odyssey from Hastings to Hackney is by turns tragi-comic and quietly radical, lit up by folk songs and locals' stories. This week's new exhibitions 2012-06-22T23:06:30Z He traveled through Europe in 1950, learning folk songs in various languages, then served in the Air Force during the Korean War. Will Holt, folk singer who wrote ’60s hit ‘Lemon Tree,’ dies at 86 2015-06-06T04:00:00Z As Grouper, Liz Harris records her magnetic folk songs in a way that makes them sound like they’re coming through a thin wall or a thick fog. Perspective | Best music of 2021: Playboi Carti, Grouper, Turnstile, Yasmin Williams and more 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z Even as Susanna’s story sags the film has little delights, including “Darling,” a mash-up of a Bollywood number and a Russian folk song. | '7 Khoon Maaf': A Black Widow Tale 2011-02-19T00:14:13Z Brazilian choro music is an important part of her repertoire, as are Afro-Cuban music, New Orleans beats and Israeli folk songs. Portland Jazz Festival highlights African-American and Jewish collaborations 2011-02-10T00:35:06Z Mr. Chávez wove the tunes of folk songs like “La Cucaracha” through a modernist idiom in a work for solo piano, and altered a traditional song chromatically in his Sonatina for Violin and Piano. Review: Bard Festival Salutes Carlos Chávez 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z This piece has the hallmarks of López Bellido’s style, such as rich orchestration and maximal gesture, along with homages to the folk songs and rhythms of the Black Peruvian music that the title hints at. Review: The Rising Star of Conducting Arrives in New York 2022-12-11T05:00:00Z For Mr. Crenshaw, who recorded “More Pretty Girls Than One,” the session was not his only encounter with antique technology: in the 1990s, he recorded a folk song on a wax cylinder. ArtsBeat: New Recordings Made the Old-Fashioned Way 2014-02-05T19:42:19Z They released an album of eclectic folk songs for children, “One Elephant, Deux Éléphants,” in 1978, and began touring with a show that often encouraged singalongs and other forms of audience participation. Lois Lilienstein, of the Children’s Trio Sharon, Lois & Bram, Dies at 78 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z The second movement seems to evoke a harmonically piercing, elusive folk song. Music Review: A Beethoven Warm-Up and a Liszt Workout 2010-11-21T22:53:00Z “Mountjoy” — a folk song punctuated with digital explosions — imagines life inside the Irish prison of the same name, evokes its history and elegantly implies all kinds of things about the barbarity of incarceration. Morrissey Releases ‘World Peace Is None of Your Business’ 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z Ms. Masters played the York work and Edward Flower’s elaborate duet arrangement of an English folk song with the guitarist Scott Tennant. Music Review: Obscure Works With Famous Allusions 2011-07-08T21:07:05Z The music quickly shifts between tenderness, longing, frustration and thwarted desire, undergirded by the earthiness of a Czech folk song. Momenta String Quartet shines in demanding program at National Gallery 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z The closest thing to a running theme was the impermanence of romantic love, contemplated in “Autumn Leaves,” and in the traditional folk song “The Water is Wide,” where love “fades away like the summer dew.” Review: In Tribute to Eva Cassidy, Rebekah Lowin Gives New Personality to Standards 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z "It’s kind of a folk song now, if there's any definition of what a real folk song is," he said. Don McLean of 'American Pie' fame tells Fox News Digital, 'I did the right thing with my life' 2022-01-29T05:00:00Z “We had a book of folk songs that we sang every week when I was at school in the sixties,” he said. Billy Bragg’s Railroad Songs 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z And when she foregrounds her guitar playing, it can sparkle like celestial folk song or growl like charred prog rock. Review | As the world burns, Julia Reidy is making music you can see 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z For example, the lead is constantly on the verge of blowing his cover due to his nervous tic of revealing state secrets in folk songs. 8 brilliant shows you haven’t streamed yet, but will this long weekend 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z When rehearsing folk songs, she envisions “destroyed homes with no roofs, collapsed walls, everything burned down — and people standing around who have nowhere to spend the winter.” Scarred by War, a Ukrainian Children’s Choir Finds Hope in Music 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z The fresh-faced 22-year-old from humble roots in a refugee camp endeared millions of voting television viewers with his Palestinian patriotic anthems and folk songs. Palestinian 'Arab Idol' victory unleashes rare outburst of joy 2013-06-22T23:28:17Z The melancholic quality of Ferrier’s singing penetrates her performances of a wide range of repertory, including the English folk songs she often performed. Kathleen Ferrier and Her Centennial CD 2012-07-08T02:54:24Z Hudes says it's more of a love story, and will push the envelope even more by having a musician onstage playing Puerto Rican folk songs. A playwright on the rise: Quiara Alegria Hudes 2013-01-11T16:17:19Z The 1941 collection consists of popular folk songs, opera arias and selections from film soundtracks, arranged by Shostakovich to facilitate performance for soldiers on the battlefront. Music Review: ?Wall to Wall Behind the Wall? at Symphony Space 2010-05-16T21:58:00Z Today, I’ve been listening to Pete Seeger and Arlo Guthrie, a beloved album of my childhood, and to the folk songs of Seeger’s that I sang as a kid. Election Day in the East Village: Singing Helps 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z The opener was “Poor Howard,” a stylized remake of a Leadbelly tune; the final encore was an Appalachian folk song, “Little Maggie,” in a furious, swirling arrangement. Robert Plant With Led Zeppelin Hits and More 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z But emotion pervades only the work in the final pas de deux, set to a dark folk song and oddly disconnected from the rest of the piece. Dance Review: New York City Ballet With a Dose of the Underworld 2014-05-02T23:04:16Z In “Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues,” the melody of a workers’ folk song is gradually engulfed by music as ruthlessly propulsive as an industrial engine. The Composer Frederic Rzewski: In His Notes, Protest and Politics 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z He is, indeed, an adept classical musician, but he also writes pop songs, folk songs and rock songs. Gabriel Kahane's moving love letter to L.A., 'The Ambassador' 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z Manuel de Falla’s colorful arrangements of seven Spanish folk songs. Review: Lisette Oropesa Scales Down Her Voice but Not Her Presence 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z Both of these pieces deconstructed traditional folk songs. Review | Folk songs, refracted: Soprano and percussion revisit Americana 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z He traveled to the republic of Georgia to record polyphonic folk songs and to Fez, Morocco, in search of Sufi music. David Lewiston, Who Recorded Indigenous Music Far and Wide, Dies at 88 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z A ‘Murder Ballad’ Playlist I learned to play guitar at summer camp by singing traditional folk songs around a campfire. ArtsBeat: A 'Murder Ballad' Playlist 2012-11-21T16:07:30Z It blends text from an unpublished story Butler wrote as a teenager with an African American folk song and electromagnetic sounds from the Earth’s atmosphere. What to see in L.A. galleries: An ode to a black sci-fi trailblazer and Lari Pittman 'Mood Books' 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z Chapin opened the tribute by singing “Midnight Special,” a folk song recorded by Seeger and others. Seeger honored at 1st folk festival since he died 2014-06-21T04:00:00Z A simple idea that shook the world of twentieth-century music—a revolutionary idea that sounded like a folk song, lilting with the loving congeniality of a parent singing to a child. Seeing Ornette Coleman 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z Church hymns, folk songs and the patriotic jingles of military and marching bands filled the streets. How Minneapolis made Prince 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z In the second, the winsome solo lines flutter over elegiac oboe, guttural brass and dreamy, tuned percussion; a tender passage for piccolo and piano conjures an Irish folk song. Music Review: A New Scottish Concerto, Dressed Up and Dreamy 2011-03-03T21:49:11Z Her low-register voice encompassed both mezzo-soprano and alto, and at this stage she was able to exploit her versatility in a wide range of genres including Mozartian opera, Handelian oratorio, lieder and Yiddish folk songs. Vera R?zsa obituary 2010-11-22T18:20:00Z It was Dylan’s third appearance — at the previous two he’d appeared as a bright young folksinger on the scene, a writer of folk songs of social conscience . Bob Dylan’s legendary defiance: “They had to crank it up to drown out the boos” when he went electric 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z Short and cheerful, it had hints of a carousel organ, while the folk song "Gentille Alouette" made its appearance in various guises. British flag flies high at Seattle Symphony 2011-11-18T18:22:03Z Somewhere between the hypnosis of New Age, the grounded wisdom of folk songs and the chancy interplay of jazz improvisation, you’ll find the Aguas Trio. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z Its righteously upbeat tone is distilled in three folk songs by Pete Seeger. Music Review: Maureen McGovern at Birdland - Review 2011-11-09T23:26:51Z Holst's boisterous Somerset Rhapsody revealed the wellsprings of an entire school of composition in the generous resources of English folk song. BBCCO/Hazlewood – review 2013-02-26T18:16:33Z Wells took her stage name from an old folk song, Sweet Kitty Wells. Country singer Wells dies at 92 2012-07-17T08:26:59Z She sang old standards, and contemporary folk songs, and the Beatles, and Sondheim, and a medley based on the music of “Marat/Sade.” Judy Collins Has a Time Machine 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z His indie rock and folk songs take on subjects dangerously prone to caricature — aspiring death-metal rockers, masked wrestlers, spiritual seekers — yet he renders them in nuanced and empathetic ways. Mountain Goats founder John Darnielle returns with a second powerful novel 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z She took her stage name from an old folk song, “Sweet Kitty Wells.” First Female Country Superstar Kitty Wells Dies 2012-07-16T22:20:25Z Her melodies drew from a range of sources, including Mexican folk songs and the music of French chanteuses like Édith Piaf, to whom her highly emotional delivery often drew comparisons. 2010-01-08T06:17:00Z You get the sense that Holcomb thought playing folk songs was something of a goof. The Discovery of Roscoe Holcomb and the “High Lonesome Sound” 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z Other "intangible" treasures picked this year include the "Fest-Noz," the traditional dance from Brittany, France, and "Arirang," the Korean national folk song. 'Frevo' Carnival tradition tagged world treasure 2012-12-07T15:51:08Z Eating it is like hearing a folk song after years of jangly pop. Thai Cuisine With an Added Touch of Whimsy 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z Using texts from an anthology of Iberian folk songs and poems translated into German, he created miniatures that are exquisitely charged with sensuality, longing and fin-de-siècle angst. Music Review: Angelika Kirchschlager and Ian Bostridge at Lincoln Center 2013-02-05T22:13:38Z The most wrenching performance is of “O Death,” a folk song from the twenties made famous by the Coen brothers’ film “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” Diamanda Galás, Lounge Singer in a World on Fire 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z She took her stage name from an old folk song, "Sweet Kitty Wells." 1st female country superstar Kitty Wells dies 2012-07-16T20:32:24Z The mood is mostly dark, though the hero also reminisces about happier times, especially in “The Linden Tree”, which subsequently became a much-loved folk song. Wintry passions 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z Youths laugh at the camera and a group of men sing a folk song on an empty road. New world disorder at Artes Mundi 2010-03-22T22:30:00Z As a singer he tackled everything from Broadway show tunes to folk songs to spirituals and parts of the classical repertoire. Singer Robeson's granddaughter recalls fight against racism 2014-05-07T01:23:34Z In between movements of Mozart’s “Haffner” Symphony, conducted by Mr. Langrée, the inspiring Young People’s Chorus of New York City sang folk songs and spirituals. Encouraging Signs of Freshness at the Mostly Mozart Festival 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z As for Odetta, there's the voice itself, which found a home in jazz, blues, spirituals, prison songs and show tunes as well as folk songs and was used as a weapon for change. Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's 'Odetta' honors singer, activist 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z It’s another ideally intimate space, and the quartet will play selections from “Wood Works,” a new Dacapo recording of Danish folk song arrangements. Opera & Classical Music Listings for Nov. 7-13 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z Hugo named the series after the popular folk song about an injured cockroach whose lyrics are often rewritten in Mexico as political satire. ‘I’m Finished When I Start Looking at the World in a Different Way’ 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z Mr. Canellakis’s dark and sinewy tone and fiery virtuosity added depth to two Bulgarian folk songs he skillfully arranged for cello and piano. Music Review: ‘Look and Listen,’ at the Pratt Manhattan Gallery 2013-05-20T20:43:17Z It was written as a modern folk song because that event was crying out not for the Clash treatment, nor the Paul Weller treatment, but for the ballad treatment. Never mind the birdlore: the new face of folk music 2013-01-27T16:59:01Z In scattered musical interludes he performs convincing and anguished folk songs which, unusually, are given the space to play out from start to finish. Cannes 2013 round-up, week 2: Gosling for breakfast, skinflicks for lunch 2013-05-25T10:59:01Z Born Donovan Leitch, he blended poetry into folk songs and scored a string of hits in the 1960s with "Sunshine Superman," "Mellow Yellow" and "Hurdy Gurdy Man." Britain's Donovan inducted to Rock Hall of Fame 2012-04-15T01:11:10Z She sang two songs, one an old Southern folk song her father taught her, the other a Sophie Tucker ode to gambling. | At Town Hall, A Chance to Shamelessly Worship the Indomitable Carol Channing 2014-01-21T19:01:48Z In Göteborg, for example, she performed eight numbers that included the Chinese folk song "Jasmine Flower" and the contemporary French hit "Parlez-moi d'Amour." After Hollywood thwarted Anna May Wong, the actress took matters into her own hands 2022-04-02T04:00:00Z I liked the mass in Latin, much better than the "folk song" period. The Costume Institute Takes On Catholicism 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z To research Japanese music, he attended a touring Kabuki show in Milan and asked the wife of the Japanese ambassador to Italy to sing him Japanese folk songs. Saying Yes to Puccini, but No to His Stereotypes 2022-07-02T04:00:00Z There was also a funky version of another Chinese folk song, “Girls from Daban City.” Stephen Cheng Recorded a Cult Classic in Jamaica. Then What Happened? 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z On a video call, M. M. Keeravani, the song’s composer, compared the sound to the traditional beats of folk songs celebrated in villages. ‘Naatu Naatu’ From ‘RRR’ Is a Worldwide Hit, but It Draws on Very Local Traditions 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z The sombre, modal piece wove together recollections of Yiddish lullabies, Chassidic chants and a plaintive Polish folk song imploring the white stork – a symbol of good fortune – not to fly south for the winter. Hall?/Mark Elder/Andrew Gourlay ? review 2010-12-05T22:01:00Z She became a collector of folk songs and an authority on their origin, performance practice and regional variants. Jean Ritchie, Who Revived Appalachian Folk Songs, Dies at 92 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z He benefited from the music world — especially when he sang folk songs — and it widened his fan base. Perspective | Harry Belafonte’s biggest hit? The song of freedom. 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z “I played a Bosnian folk song three weeks ago, which kind of shocked pretty much everyone.” Next Stop: Belgrade Music Scene: Pop, Folk, Electronica and Politics 2010-06-10T18:37:00Z The first half of the program included “Hymns From the Western Coast” for saxophone and choir by the Estonian composer Tonu Korvits, set to Swedish translations of Estonian folk songs. Review: Hints of Eternity at Trinity Wall Street 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z When the music broke into a wistful melody, like some Moravian folk song, in this context and setting it sounded like a consoling hymn drifting from the church sanctuary. Review: Searching for a Path Out of a Musical Labyrinth 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z Since “Cruel Sister,” Ms. Wolfe has looked to other folk songs for inspiration. Post-Minimalism and Folk Ballads Fuel a Composer 2011-02-01T22:00:25Z The 89-year-old Watson is a singer of bluegrass, country, blues and gospel who is famous for his flatpicking style on the guitar and his interpretations of folk songs from bygone eras. Singer Doc Watson in critical condition, hospital says 2012-05-25T04:01:16Z Q: You knew so many old folk songs as a teenager. Q&A with Joan Baez: Even Taylor Swift thinks she’s cool 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z “The Silk Road” is more like music in its harmonies: Davis pulls from folk songs, French ballads, nursery rhymes; from Hindu gods and Greek ones; from Chinese and Western astronomy. A Cosmic Being Dies in Yoga Class. Then Things Get Really Weird. 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z And the composer’s liberal quotation from Scottish folk songs guaranteed that the violin lines would sing. | New York Philharmonic: New York Philharmonic Unleashes Operatics Hidden in Brahms 2010-04-10T00:10:00Z They sing music from the worlds of opera, operetta, Broadway musicals and Danish, Swedish and Icelandic folk songs, often in lighthearted, humorous fashion. The Week Ahead: 'Please Give,' Jewel, Nordic Singers are arts highlights 2010-06-16T23:32:00Z The style emerged in the 1970s, when some of Turkey’s biggest pop stars took old folk songs and updated them with modern instruments, he said. One of Turkey’s Hottest Rock Bands Has an Unlikely Source 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z "House" is a traditional folk song with roots going back to early 20th century Appalachia, and maybe even earlier. 25 of the most covered songs in music history 2021-09-04T04:00:00Z Her father, a brakeman for the Tennessee Central Railroad, played guitar and sang folk songs after the fashion of Jimmie Rodgers. Kitty Wells, Country Singer, Dies at 92 2012-07-16T21:02:25Z The cellist Abel Selaocoe, introducing an album of pieces by Bach and South African and Tanzanian folk songs, describes how hymnal music from England and the Netherlands mixed with African culture. Apple’s New App Aims to Make Classical Music More Accessible 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z He knows classical, traditional Iranian music, Koran reciting, folk songs and modern stuff. “When this concert happened where we had concrete threats, I faced the same dilemma as his musicians”: Till Schauder, director of “When God Sleeps,” talks about Iranian rapper Shahin Najafi 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z This spring, the organization unveiled the Global Jukebox, a free, interactive web portal with recordings of more than 6,000 folk songs from around the world that Lomax recorded or acquired. The Unfinished Work of Alan Lomax’s Global Jukebox 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z Serious Soviet music brought together Tchaikovsky’s lugubrious Romanticism, Pioneer marches, a little Beethoven, folk song strains, tunelets. Choir in Plane Crash Projects Russian Pride and Soft Power 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z In the early ‘60s, I went on anti-nuclear marches, and people would sing an adaptation of folk songs like “Down by the Riverside”: “I’m gonna lay down my hydrogen bomb down by the riverside.” Richard Thompson: Innovation in, nostalgia out 2013-03-10T23:57:00Z This is where I’d take the deep dive into Dylan’s world of folk songs, alluring Shakespearean characters, twisted Biblical imagery, and the urgency of the Civil Rights movement. How I wrote a song with Bob Dylan: A 57-year collaboration about my home state of Wisconsin 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z Michael Dorman plays a young intelligence officer with deadly skills and bad luck who deals with his angst by writing and performing hilariously sincere and morbid folk songs. Reviews: Amazon Pilots Include a Revolt and the Supernatural 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z He learned British folk songs and sang them in an amiable tenor, and he was drawn to ragtime and the blues, particularly the fingerpicking complexity of early rural blues. John Renbourn, Eclectic Guitarist Who Founded the Pentangle, Dies at 70 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z It’s in every folk song, gospel song, the sound of the banjo and the sound of the guitar. Wynton Marsalis Finds Solace in the Optimism of the Blues 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z The Berio works were based on folk songs, though the composer, then a student, folded the tunes into milky modern harmonic textures. Music Review: Julia Bullock Gives New York Recital Debut at Merkin Concert Hall 2014-03-12T20:33:31Z Sometimes, these are acoustic folk songs, no more, no less. New Music: New Albums by Sabina Sciubba and New Bums 2014-02-17T22:37:49Z Ms. Carter, jazz’s leading mainstream violinist, plays with a thick, warm-molasses tone; she’s equally indebted to classical technique and folk song. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z Gradually he incorporated influences from classical music, jazz and traditional Celtic and British folk songs. Bert Jansch, Influential Guitarist, Is Dead at 67 2011-10-06T03:47:15Z Joplin sang it unaccompanied, and although Boden paradoxically adds a mournful concertina, he's happy to classify it as a folk song. Jon Boden's big singalong 2010-07-28T21:15:00Z One manager turned out to be a former sculptor; another recalled the tradition of men singing chants and folk songs while swinging their picks. Evelyn Glennie's stone xylophone 2010-08-18T21:00:00Z In the last piece, the violin seemed to be playing some scratchy-toned, ancient folk song atop cosmic piano chords. Music Review: Augustin Hadelich and Charles Owen at Frick Collection 2013-12-09T21:56:59Z “WHOEVER wishes to collect from the mouth of the people should hurry; folk songs are disappearing one after another.” Humanity’s heartbeat 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z The pieces on this rewarding recording range from folk songs suffused with Finnish character to enigmatic works with sometimes dark lyrics. Classical Playlist: Sibelius, Dvorak and Zorn 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z As we entered the chapel, recordings of Hurston singing and talking about folk songs played. A New Iteration of Reggie Wilson’s ‘Moses(es)’ 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z St. James Sunday Concerts Annual holiday concert features classical favorites, spirituals, folk songs and more. The week ahead in L.A. classical music, Dec. 3-10: Angel City Chorale, Pacific Opera Project and more 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z “If it was never new, and it never gets old, then it’s a folk song,” Llewyn Davis says, brandishing his guitar during a set at the Gaslight. Movie Review: ‘Inside Llewyn Davis,’ Directed by Joel and Ethan Coen 2013-12-05T13:00:01Z The staging, by contrast, directed by Marianne Elliott and Tom Morris, is humble and human, with ancient folk songs and the exquisite, handcrafted puppets created by the South African theater company Handspring. ‘War Horse’ Closes in Britain, but Its Influence Gallops On 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z His own music, then and later, became a new form of highly informed folk song: deceptively simple melodies for small groups with an intuitive, collective language, and a strategy for playing without preconceived chord sequences. Ornette Coleman, Jazz Innovator, Dies at 85 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Crosby applied his soothing baritone to love songs, folk songs, Irish songs, Hawaiian songs, country songs — he sang almost everything and revealed almost nothing. How Bing Crosby Changed the Course of Pop Music 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z For Ms. Fischer’s final project for her master’s degree at The Hague University in the Netherlands, she created a culinary concert, during which she cooked and served food while singing folk songs. Nora Fischer Bursts the Classical Music Bubble 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z Even so, some purists were sniffy about the film, disliking the use of Leon Rosselson's folk songs on the soundtrack, and any shots unconnected with the scene. Tony Palmer's Wigan Casino film comes to DVD 2010-04-15T21:35:00Z It includes the folk song “Another Man Done Gone” and ethereal and cacophonous passages from Olivier Messiaen’s “Quartet for the End of Time,” written and first performed in a World War II prisoner-of-war camp. Running Live Dance Drills at the Armory 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z Born in Ethiopia, Ms. Jernberg wove a keening Ethiopian folk song into her own assemblage of virtuosic vocal tricks: yelps, croaks and hums evocative of birds and of early Meredith Monk. Review: Resonant Bodies Festival Blends Freedom With Radiance 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z The company members will sing Czech folk songs between the acts of this 70-minute show, closing this weekend. Spare Times for Children for Aug. 17-23 2012-08-16T22:24:08Z Since 2003, when he made “Trouble No More,” a collection of old blues and folk songs, he has been a grizzled codger taking the long view, pondering mortality and the meaning of life. Critics? Choice: New CDs: Albums by Brian Wilson, John Mellencamp, Trace Adkins 2010-08-15T23:05:00Z The Ukrainian national anthem was sung at the Metropolitan Opera; a Ukrainian folk song cold-opened “Saturday Night Live.” The Role of Art in a Time of War 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z He then crooned a romantic Italian song and finally intoned an a cappella Russian folk song. Siberia's bleak, beautiful baritone sweeps across L.A. Opera 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z “And the only times he would play would be to play this piece,” Ma noted, “which is from his native Catalonia, a folk song that he thought symbolized freedom.” Yo-Yo Ma Makes His Encore a Call for Peace, With a Nod to Casals 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z Scheuer recalls his father asking once in a folk song, in a tender moment that turned abruptly sour. The one-man musical 'The Lion' leaps to the L.A. stage with songs of regret and hope 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z It starts as a simple folk song that builds and deepens into driving rock song, teetering on madness. New Tears for Fears songs ‘plumb the depths of our souls’ 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z Songwriter Colin Hay has called any reference to Sinclair's folk song "inadvertent, naive, unconscious". Appeal over Men At work 'rip-off' 2010-02-25T12:59:00Z When, for example, the dronelike theme of “Spring Rounds” is first heard, it sounds like some grim, ancient Russian folk song. Radical Music: Sometimes Shocking, Sometimes Subtle 2012-09-18T17:43:03Z Denná's first memories are musical ones of her parents singing Iranian folk songs to her. 15-year-old college student eyes opera career 2012-05-31T00:17:04Z Inevitably, the Netherlands song also got ditched, as it always is, despite the country fielding a yodelled folk song performed by a fire-loving former talent show contestant in a gigantic native American headdress. Eurovision 2012: who shone brightest in the second semi-final? 2012-05-25T10:37:13Z A banjo player, singer and political activist, Seeger wrote his own songs but also revived and adapted traditional folk songs and verses and popularized them: songs like “If I Had a Hammer,” ”Turn! Seeger tribute at Newport honors traditional folk 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z After World War II, folk songs reached the Top 10, albeit with sanitized lyrics and pop arrangements. Review: ‘Folk City’ at the Museum of the City of New York 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z We often try to gauge the integrity of a folk song based on how confessional its lyrics are, or maybe by how intimately those lyrics are being sung. Hiss Golden Messenger’s radiant rhythms 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z Monday to Friday, as predictable and uncomplicated as a folk song. So ends another summer scramble to keep kids busy 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z And Dessner’s “Murder Ballads,” which concluded the program, engagingly revisited early folk songs. Strong group, light music: Eighth Blackbird at the Kennedy Center 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z “SHOSHOLOZA” IS a popular Zimbabwean folk song once sung by migrant laborers who traveled by steam train to work in South Africa’s mines. South Africa aims to live the dream of equality for all 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z When I first began to sing, most of the better-known people who were singing folk songs had those sort of Kentucky mountain sopranos. Ronnie Gilbert, Folk Singer for the Weavers, Dies at 88 2015-06-06T04:00:00Z Based on an Italian folk song, its action takes place in the 21st century. Music: Europe's Operatic Summer 2011-07-01T12:30:07Z Without benefit of a hit record, the song nonetheless seeped into the American consciousness, like a true folk song, by word-of-mouth, via campfires, schoolrooms and singalongs. Woody Guthrie at 100: These songs belong to you and me 2012-07-10T19:46:05Z Even at the climax, when the actors talk of the sackings and privations they have endured, they sing a folk song. Minsk 2011: A Reply to Kathy Acker – review 2012-06-17T17:04:01Z But about 20 minutes in, while practicing a jaunty Zulu folk song, the 14 members were clapping along and swaying side-to-side. At In-Person Choir Rehearsals, a Balance Between Joyful and Careful 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z She sang William Walton’s cycle “A Song for the Lord Mayor’s Table” with energy and the folk song arrangements with easy freedom: “She Moved Through the Fair,” an Irish tune, was a cappella and astonishing. Music Review: The Soprano Lucy Crowe Gives Her New York Recital Debut 2014-04-10T23:14:25Z But throughout his career, he has innovated new roles — and a new sense of potential — for the voice in jazz, classical music, American folk song and much of the space in between. N.E.A. Jazz Masters Include Roscoe Mitchell and Dorthaan Kirk 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z There's another where her quest takes her to a hootenanny in a dimly lit sitting room in which six expressionless musicians accompany a middle-aged woman singing a bluegrass folk song. Winter's Bone 2010-09-18T23:05:00Z “Song One,” Kate Barker-Froyland’s anemic first feature, offers a wispy meditation on the healing properties of a pretty folk song — especially when sung by a shaggy-haired troubadour with bedroom eyes and a sensitive soul. Anne Hathaway Falls for a Crooner in ‘Song One’ 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z Sandburg was an early multimedia star, lecturing all over the country, singing folk songs on college campuses and writing columns for newspapers. Penelope Niven, who wrote about 20th-century cultural figures, dies at 75 She developed her songwriting voice along the way, releasing several cassettes of haunting folk songs, which were later compiled into her 2014 debut, “Rooms With Walls and Windows.” How Julie Byrne’s Astral Folk Music Took Flight 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z The lineup included effective arrangements of the traditional folk song “Barbara Allen” and Vivaldi’s Double Violin Concerto in A minor. Music Review: Genres and Styles Without Borders, in a Brooklyn Series 2011-05-10T20:59:29Z It was sung sweetly, as though it was a folk song about a river, or a forest blossom. Arundhati Roy | Gandhi, but with guns | Part Two 2010-03-27T09:00:00Z The overture, which runs about 15 minutes, is unabashedly patriotic, featuring Russian folk songs and a volley of cannon fire set to the former Russian national anthem, “God Save the Czar.” Amid Ukraine War, Orchestras Rethink ‘1812 Overture,’ a July 4 Rite 2022-07-03T04:00:00Z Left alone to ponder her fate, Cinderella sings a wistful aria, music that suggests an old folk song, and allows herself a moment to dream. Review: ‘Cinderella’ Adds Stardust to the Met Opera’s Holiday 2021-12-19T05:00:00Z The vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth realized these different musical styles — Baroque madrigal, Appalachian folk song, Manhattan Transfer-style close harmony, buzzing rock anthem — with ease through amplification. Review | In three parts, an artistic reexamination of Robert Mapplethorpe 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z “Song of Silver Geese,” her coming album, consists of an original nine-part suite drawing on East Asian and Melanesian folk song, and the writings of two of her mentors. 10 Things to Do in NYC Now 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z Mr. Amidon, who sets lyrics from traditional songs to his own alluring music, noted that folk songs often meshed dark lyrics with happy melodies. Music Review: Nico Muhly Previews His ‘Two Boys’ at Le Poisson Rouge 2013-05-15T20:05:23Z There are a couple of songs loosely based on these Mexican folk songs, but it’s removed in a certain sense, driven by electric guitar, for instance. A Word With: David Wax and Suz Slezak: David Wax and Suz Slezak on Their Music’s Mexican Influence 2012-09-04T22:13:59Z The only company I had was fleeting: speedy Korean kayakers singing folk songs; at least that’s what the lilting melodies sounded like. In Laos, a Haven for Tubing Offers More Peace, Less Partying 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z Armed with a 12-string guitar and banjo, she sang bold and brokenhearted renditions of blues, pop and traditional folk songs she’d learned as a child, transporting them to an untidy and irreplicable emotional plane. The many mysteries of folk singer Karen Dalton, revealed 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z Back in the town centre, I heard a voice singing the folk song Lowlands. The Glasgow International impact zone 2010-04-19T20:30:00Z That’s what folk music is and this is a folk song. Darius Rucker rides ‘Wagon Wheel’ to top of charts 2013-05-24T19:43:37Z It had folk songs about longing and soul music about feelings. Talking to My Fiancé About My New Girlfriend 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z The Vienna Boys Choir presents “Christmas in Vienna,” a program of Austrian folk songs and holiday-themed favorites. More Ways for Making Merry 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z Soon he was inviting me to parties, where we sang folk songs and drank vodka. Modern Love: Breaking Free From the Nesting Doll 2013-08-01T20:02:45Z In the pummeling “Augurs of Spring” section, when the music calms down briefly and a horn plays what seems a folk song, Bernstein gets the orchestra to ease up wonderfully. In Praise of Bernstein as Conductor: Movement That Mesmerized 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z The words he sings are in Mandarin: the lyrics for “Always Together” were adapted from “Girl from Ali Shan,” a folk song that originated in Taiwan, thousands of miles from Jamaica. Stephen Cheng Recorded a Cult Classic in Jamaica. Then What Happened? 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z Clementine’s first name offers an allusion to a death in its echo of "Oh My Darling, Clementine," a parody of a folk song about the loss of a lover. The simple question that inspired "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" 2018-09-23T04:00:00Z She played a beautifully soft-spoken encore: Manuel De Falla’s setting of “Nana,” a Spanish folk song. Review: Concertgebouw Orchestra Shows Off Its Legacy at Carnegie 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z So Ms. Wolfe inventively juxtaposes a plaintive Yiddish folk song with a lively Italian tarantella-like piece. Review: With Protest and Fire, an Oratorio Mourns a Tragedy 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z But in 1980s Wales, as English-owned holiday cottages were razed and English signposts defaced, the prevailing soundtrack of harps, choirs and traditional folk songs just wasn't enough for a new generation of militants. Label of love: Ankst 2010-05-06T10:34:00Z In the 60s, her voice was prim and weirdly stilted, as if she was struggling to read the lyrics of the folk songs and Donovan covers she sang from an illegible cue-card. Marianne Faithfull: Broken English (Deluxe Edition) – review 2013-01-31T15:30:01Z The mass performance with dancing and gymnastics is named after a Korean folk song. NKoreans perform mass 'Arirang' with new Kim odes 2012-08-01T18:16:14Z Unafraid to upset his critics and surprise his fans, Scholl has recorded albums of folk songs and pop tunes in addition to the dozens of recordings of baroque and early music that made his name. Andreas Scholl and Philippe Jaroussky: pushing the envelope for countertenors 2010-12-06T21:31:00Z A repertoire evolved and the instrument, which is held on the lap as it is played, was used to accompany dance, folk songs and poetry. In Mongolia, the Horse-Headed Fiddle Rides Again 2010-08-25T13:53:00Z Of course constancy still suits Mr. Groban best, which is why “She Moved Through the Fair,” the matrimonial Irish folk song, works so handily here. New Albums by My Bloody Valentine, Josh Groban and Tim McGraw 2013-02-04T23:42:25Z The singers’ folk song repertoire sounds at times like Gregorian chant. Cloud Gate Dance Theatre performs in Seattle March 6-8 2014-02-26T20:26:38Z Part two was pure fun: clever close-harmony arrangements of Gilbert and Sullivan by former King's singer Bob Chilcott, and a group of folk songs reinvented by members past and present. The Rake's Progress; BBC Prom 35; Three Choirs festival 2010-08-14T23:05:00Z In Bates’s case, that means beatboxing, sampling and other electronic ephemera; with Ives, it was hymns, marches and folk songs, but refracted and deconstructed. NSO showcases Kennedy Center’s composer in residence, older American gems 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z For the melody and some of the lyrics, Mr. Dylan borrowed from an early 20th-century folk song called “Down on Penny’s Farm.” Bob Dylan’s New York: A Playlist 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z SAT Lithuanian, Estonian and Latvian folk songs by performers in traditional costumes, 2 p.m. Community calendar 2012-05-16T23:11:04Z For a recital at Alice Tully Hall with the sensitive pianist Julius Drake, he ties a set of folk songs to a program of Beethoven, Schubert, Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff. The New Season of Classical Music: A ‘Fake News’ Opera and Sound Quilts 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z Vaughan Williams's earliest masterpieces, showing the vital impact of English folk song, were just a few years away, but there's no trace of that influence here. Vaughan Williams premiere ? review 2011-03-07T22:15:00Z "This is an old English folk song," he barked. Hail, Hail, Rock'n'roll 2011-03-03T22:31:01Z But only now, with autumn winds blowing in, are their warming folk songs nearing completion. Fleet Foxes finish recording second album 2010-09-17T10:10:00Z Two instrumental interpretations of Afghan folk songs were followed by the well-known Afghan tune, "Kataghani." Concert of Afghan traditional music at UW beautiful, mesmerizing 2012-04-25T20:12:05Z The group’s repertory consists of folk songs, spirituals and a few of Mr. Lloyd’s best-known compositions. Jazz Listings for Jan. 29-Feb. 4 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z Parts of “Cesar Chavez” are as rousing as an old folk song, with chants of “¡Huelga!” and “¡Sí, se puede!” ringing through the theater. Movie Review: Hero Worship Abounds in ‘Cesar Chavez’ 2014-03-27T22:07:35Z Much of her early repertoire was markedly British, drawn from the English classical canon and rounded out by traditional folk songs. "Prima donna in pigtails": how Julie Andrews the child star embodied the hopes of post-war Britain 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z "Most mainstream pop is about love, but folk songs don't tend to do that," she adds. Never mind the birdlore: the new face of folk music 2013-01-27T16:59:01Z She was in better, more penetrating voice for the Bartok folk songs. Music Review: Evolution, and a Definitive Endpoint 2011-05-15T21:30:31Z It was Mr. Seeger’s generation who brought folk songs out of their homes and to the workers. Pete Seeger’s New York Roots 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z “Songs of Bukovina,” a suite of dances set to preludes loosely based on Ukrainian folk songs, will be the sixth. Alexei Ratmansky’s Elective Affinity, Musically Speaking 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z But it’s rare to hear a young singer with such a uniformly beautiful sound and such solid technique in repertory that includes the Baroque and Chinese folk song. Review: Ying Fang Caps a Moving Recital With a Dedication to James Levine 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z Those “anti songs” were different from love songs, or folk songs. Opinion: K’naan, on Censoring Himself For Success 2012-12-08T18:30:19Z Adapting the folk songs of your parents, says Blizzard, is the same as hip-hoppers who sample the vinyl records they inherit from their parents. Hip-hop and folk meet in a new wave of protest music 2012-11-06T15:45:00Z Celebrating the release of his fifth children’s album, “One,” Mr. Smith will perform reggae tunes and Jamaican and African folk songs. Spare Times for Children Listings for April 1-7 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z Trained as a classical pianist and raised around the music of folk singers like Woody Guthrie, Mr. Okun recorded his own versions of folk songs before he turned to developing the music of other artists. Milt Okun, Who Turned John Denver Into a Pop Star, Dies at 92 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z Their contracts were terminated last month when orchestrated music was cut from the production altogether - although it still incorporates live folk songs and choral numbers. War Horse musicians lose legal bid 2014-04-15T14:27:51Z These offer a chance to perform without the constraints and commitments of a proper band; to play for the sake of playing; and to revisit ancient and beloved folk songs in communal fashion. From City Folk, Toe-Tapping Country Sounds 2011-02-24T21:28:59Z Mr. Hvorostovsky sang a gentle Russian folk song, “Farewell My Darling, My Life,” with haunting beauty. Music Review | Sondra Radvanovsky and Dmitri Hvorostovsky: Sondra Radvanovsky and Dmitri Hvorostovsky at Carnegie Hall 2010-04-02T22:01:00Z She spent endless childhood hours by the radio, listening to American folk songs and Mexican ballads. Linda Ronstadt never stopped singing 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z Occasionally the work’s modernist tropes, which peak with the use of a loudspeaker, are pierced by stylistic interjections: a fiddling folk song, Eastern idioms. Online, Simon Rattle Gives a Preview of His Future in Munich 2021-03-14T05:00:00Z The true story behind an American folk song may be elusive, and yet the musical tradition hands these tunes forward, not unlike the family watch. The Elderly Bearers of a Folk-Music Tradition in Rural Tennessee 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z Related dances and folk songs are performed on other festive occasions. Distinguished Japanese puppet theater to visit Seattle 2013-08-14T19:32:33Z She learned Ukrainian, practiced folk songs and studied the country’s poetry, history and literature with her father and grandmother. A Conductor on a Mission to Help Ukraine 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z Elsewhere, he muses on childhood innocence while name-checking the Harlem Globetrotters great Meadowlark Lemon on the loose roots-rocker “Natural Information” and processes death with disarming tenderness on the ghostly folk song “Lily.” 75 Pop and Jazz Albums, Shows and Festivals Coming This Fall 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z Katerina is assigned poignant salon arias and pensive recitatives that bear the contours of folk song. The Fact and Fiction Behind Shostakovich’s ‘Lady Macbeth’ 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Despite battling censorship and charges of communism in McCarthy-era America, Seeger was able to push political folk songs into the mainstream, although he occasionally had help from other acts. Songs of Peace and Protest: 6 Essential Cuts From Pete Seeger 2014-01-28T15:01:48Z He fled the country in 2011, and has since become a mainstay of dissident dinners in Berlin, New York, and Taipei; after a few drinks, he sometimes sings folk songs and plays a bamboo flute. The Widow of a Nobel-Winning Chinese Dissident Rebuilds Her Career as an Artist 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z The raw ingredients of the Green Man Festival don't only sound like the setting for a folk-based festival, they sound themselves like the setting for a folk song. This week's new live music 2010-08-13T23:06:00Z The choral music accompanying the piece — spare, melancholy folk songs performed by Ensemble Rustavi of Georgia — is the final element that creates the spell onstage. Golden visions from Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan | Dance review 2014-03-07T18:41:37Z This duet fits better with Nico Muhly’s sound-bath setting of a grim folk song than with the song itself, but, with the help of Tyler Angle’s exemplary partnering, it showed Ms. Peck’s extraordinary control. Daniel Ulbricht Leads City Ballet Dancers at Jacob’s Pillow 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z Hoop describes them as "folk songs": easier to write, "worthwhile", but not entirely fulfilling. Jesca Hoop: 'I used to live under a tree' 2011-04-06T21:00:00Z Later, she was joined by bass Mark Duer in a lusty performance of the “Peasant Cantata,” a virtual opera scene filled with allusions to folk song and dance. Review | Washington Bach Consort gives a cheerful performance fit for spring 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z He listened to one of his black conservatory students, Harry Burleigh, sing spirituals and studied the Louisville music teacher Mildred Hill’s scholarship on black folk songs. Did Dvorak’s ‘New World’ Symphony Transform American Music? 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z Its generous tonal lyricism develops in layers: hymns and folk songs for the household; a square, petulant simplicity for Brother’s naïve savagery; an enigmatic chromaticism for Doodle and the pathos of time. ‘The Scarlet Ibis’ Blends Opera With Puppetry 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z For Sharp, folk songs existed in a constant transformation, a living example of an art form in a perpetual state of renewal. Folk music: the times they are a-changin' 2010-05-22T23:05:00Z Mr. Kalish sounded at his best in a set by Bartok, imbuing his Hungarian folk songs — energetically rendered by Ms. Upshaw — with colorful flair. Review: Dawn Upshaw Gets Down to Earth at Town Hall 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z It’s just a folk song really about treating love like a choice in the face of death, about which there is no choice. The Airborne Toxic Event renovates, recharges on 'Dope Machines' 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z Most scholars believe the name zydeco derives from “les haricots,” the French term for beans and a lyric in a Creole folk song. Stanley Dural Jr., who popularized zydeco music as Buckwheat Zydeco, dies at 68 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z The music — Jewish prayers, African hymns, Greek folk songs, a Bach violin sonata — is dreamy and grave. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z Last year Lang Lang released “Piano Book,” an album of pieces that fostered his childhood passion for the piano: short Chopin works, folk songs, “Chopsticks.” Lang Lang: The Pianist Who Plays Too Muchly 2020-10-04T04:00:00Z The only thing I could come up with was an English folk song, “Donkey Riding.” Emilia Clarke, of “Game of Thrones,” on Surviving Two Life-Threatening Aneurysms 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z Still, he remained Norwegian to his core, someone who loved the music of his country and incorporated freely adapted folk songs into his works. A Critic’s Ode to a Childhood Joy in Classical Music 2013-07-17T16:12:32Z A federal judge in Manhattan has refused to dismiss a lawsuit claiming that Woody Guthrie’s classic 1940 folk song “This Land is Your Land” belongs to the public. U.S. judge refuses to dismiss 'This Land is Your Land' lawsuit 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z They sing opera, operetta, Broadway musicals and Danish, Swedish and Icelandic folk songs, often in lighthearted fashion. Classical roundup: a Bernstein tribute and a summer-garden series 2010-06-17T20:19:00Z Gilbert is a politically naive musicologist collecting folk songs in the Balkans. My favourite Hitchcock: The Lady Vanishes 2012-07-24T09:23:46Z Apart from a distant tinkling during the final credits, which might be some sort of folk song, there is no music, just natural sounds. In the Fog – review 2013-04-27T23:07:06Z Neither image suits Ms. Spiegel, who grew up playing banjo music and singing folk songs in three-part harmony with her sisters in rural Illinois. Rediscovering the Electronic Music Godmothers 2012-11-25T00:50:05Z Levko Revutsky, another composer with the society, fused traditional melodies with innovations in craft — such as in his Second Symphony, from 1927, which sets folk songs into dialogue with sweeping, impressionistic harmonies. When Ukrainian Music Wasn’t Under Threat, It Thrived 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z The short production ends with a consoling, out-of-place folk song, like pantomimes of old. In 'Half Life,' Cloud Eye Control tries to see the unseen 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z SoundCloud user Spirit Giants turned Trump Jr.’s controversial email exchange with Rob Goldstone, a former tabloid reporter and entertainment publicist, into an easy-listening folk song. Let’s listen to Donald Trump Jr.’s Russia emails in the form of an indie folk song 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z Along the way he sings Scottish folk songs and buys her items that she signals she needs. ‘My Name Is Hmmm ,’ a French Road Movie 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z There are folk songs, a pro-union ditty and even a ritual funeral tune. Blues are buoyant, but ‘Black Pearl Sings!’ should have been rousing emotional duet 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z The multicultural program will include a Spanish carol, an Israeli lullaby, an American folk song, a Britten-inspired work by Caroline Shaw and a commissioned piece by Richard Reed Parry, a member of Arcade Fire. Spare Times for Children for Dec. 13-19 2013-12-12T23:34:34Z Q: The album is a collection of classic American folk songs, from "Clementine" and "Oh Susannah" to "This Land Is Your Land." A Minute With: Neil Young on his new album, film 2012-06-06T09:09:49Z It’s a story song, like “Taxi” with Harry Chapin, more of a folk song than a pop tune. Billy Joel’s Got a Good Job and Hits in His Head 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z The Nordic folk songs by the Danish String Quartet were rousingly performed live. Review | The ballet dancers dived into the ball pit. That’s when the evening really took off. 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z The filmmakers, whose film took a prize at the Cannes Film Festival last year, is unhurried, letting time unfurl against a stunning Alpine backdrop and the fragile, organ-inflected folk songs of Daniel Norgren. What to stream this week: Adam Sandler, ‘Star Wars: Ahsoka,’ Tim McGraw and ‘Honor Among Thieves’ 2023-08-20T04:00:00Z Pajitnov did take Rogers out, but it was to a spot playing Russian folk songs, not rock music. Tetris founder — and Eastside resident — reflects on iconic game’s legacy 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z Those folk traditions, from folk songs to fairytales to the remnants of pre-Christian pagan practices, were the “true” expression of a national spirit that had, supposedly, laid dormant for centuries. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Taylor was accompanied by two violinists, draped in sequinned green outfits, playing a rendition of Irish folk song Drunken Sailor, and was given a hero's welcome by a packed crowd inside the Mansion House. Violins & adoring fans - Taylor & Cameron weigh in 2023-05-19T04:00:00Z The movement performed was Tros y Garreg which translates as Crossing the Stone and is based on a Welsh folk song. Coronation: I wasn't Meghan in disguise, says Sir Karl 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z The Irish folk song The Fields Of Athenry singles him out for blame. Trevelyan descendant 'would consider' Irish famine compensation 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z Next up was a folk song from Punjab, sung by generations upon generations of musicians, now reverberating alongside the music of some of the world’s top artists. Ali Sethi is at Coachella, and everywhere else. And he’s not done yet. 2023-04-22T04:00:00Z Urged by Robeson, Mr. Belafonte began using folk songs to decry racism, poverty and other social ills. Harry Belafonte, barrier-smashing entertainer and activist, dies at 96 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z I had two microphones — one for me, one for my guitar — and I stood barefoot, singing sad folk songs. Lana Del Rey Wanted to Sing With Joan Baez. But First, She’d Have to Find Her. 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z This Brazilian singer-songwriter crafts porcelain folk songs tuneful enough to wow his former tour buddy/head Fleet Fox Robin Pecknold and the rest of us at an unforgettable Marymoor Park show last summer. Best Seattle concerts and club shows to go to this spring 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z The wisps of rap and folk songs early on, backed by sparse arrangements of acoustic guitar, vocalizations and beatboxing, are more texture than fully realized numbers. Review: Village Theatre’s premiere of ‘How to Break’ 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z The song features beats commonly used in folk songs in India's Telugu-speaking states, and several folksy references. Oscars 2023: RRR's Naatu Naatu wins best original song 2023-03-12T05:00:00Z This offseason, he had a corrido — a folk song that tells the narrative of someone’s life — written about him by a friend. This spring brings nothing but uncharted territory for Joey Meneses 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z Williams tried scoring that moment with the Irish folk song “The Rakes of Mallow,” used in Ford’s film “The Quiet Man,” and then tried an extended quotation of his score from “Jaws.” John Williams and Steven Spielberg: Sometimes friends take it personally 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z Her quest subtly becomes epic, lending the feeling of something beyond logic, almost like a folk song. The live-action shorts: Playful Christmas tales, fraternal friction, a 'visual poem' and social strife 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z The song’s composer used Indian skin drums called duffs, whose sound he compared to the traditional beats of folk songs celebrated in villages. Your Thursday Briefing: Key Meetings for Biden and Putin 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z Scores of them paraded through the town last month singing folk songs and shouting, “Glory to Ukraine.” At Czech Spa Town, ‘Russia for Us Is the Past, and It Was Not Pleasant’ 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z Adams’ thrilling choruses are among the opera’s highlights and include his inimitable own take on folk song. Review: There's less Gold Rush in John Adams' latest 'Girls of the Golden West,' but it's still gold 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z The Land O' the Leal, one of the most poignant Scottish folk songs, is often mistaken as the work of the great bard, Robert Burns. Burns Night: Lady Carolina Nairne's poignant work mistaken for bard's 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z Playing folk songs at coffeehouses in Santa Barbara and then Los Angeles, he hurriedly left town after his girlfriend became pregnant. David Crosby, whose voice soared with the Byrds and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, dies 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z "She was a very talented artist, and used to sing folk songs. She would often sing spontaneously," her friend Bhimsen told the BBC. Nepal air crash: Who were the victims? 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z The controversial “Roll On, Columbia” was later adopted as the official folk song of Washington state. Woody Guthrie’s rented flat in Portland for sale as local legacy endures 2023-01-07T05:00:00Z It’s all part of the heady mix of “joyous melancholy” within something resembling an Italian folk song. Guillermo del Toro and the 'joyous melancholy' of the 'Pinocchio' song 'Ciao Papa' 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z Rather than despair over obvious present-day parallels, however, Baumbach limits fake news to folk songs and puppet shows. Page to Screen: An exuberant 'White Noise' reinvents Don DeLillo — and Noah Baumbach 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z There was an ensemble for locals who wanted to perform Ukrainian folk songs, and another for teenagers who preferred pop. Ukraine: A Culture in the Cross Hairs 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z That includes putting a fresh spin on old classics like “The Sleeping Beauty” and “The Nutcracker” and creating new works like the whimsical “Whipped Cream” or “Songs of Bukovina,” set to Ukrainian folk songs. Leading choreographer Alexei Ratmansky to depart ABT in June 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z Some sang a popular folk song whose lyrics recall an even earlier tragedy here, in 1969, when 20 students protesting against the then-military dictatorship were brutally killed. Peru’s dark past surfaces as young protester is laid to rest 2022-12-18T05:00:00Z Singing in Tshiluba and dancing Mutuashi, she produced crispy sounds rooted in traditional folk songs, but used modern instruments that gave them more resonance. Tshala Muana: The raunchy DR Congo diva who captivated a continent 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z It’s fitting that his first studio album in seven years is a loving collection of acoustic folk songs written for members of his family. The 20 best Seattle albums of 2022 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z “The New Faith” uncovers Black American folk songs from beneath centuries of white canonical snowdrifts — a task he says can feel frustratingly perpetual as that snow keeps falling. Jake Blount unearths Black history through folk music, using its sounds as a bridge to the future 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z The musical high point of the evening, however, was always a fervent rendition of “Hava Nagila,” the Jewish folk song of celebration. Taking stock of the vanishing landscape of 'Russian Hollywood' 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z As night fell, residents of Kherson lit a fire and sang an old Cossack folk song, “Red Kalyna,” which was banned under Russia’s occupation of Kherson and refers to a Ukrainian berry. Ukrainian Soldiers Sweeping Into Kherson Are Greeted With Jubilation 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z For Mrs. Sindawi, when preparing dishes like mussakhan, whose origins are unclear beyond references to it in folk songs and tales, it is also about using ingredients steeped in tradition. Preserving a Palestinian Identity in the Kitchen 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z Burmese folk songs play from speakers placed on the floor, and the woody smell of cheroot cigars hangs heavy in humid air. At a tea shop for Myanmar exiles, songs from home and resistance in the air 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z Papas also collaborated with late composer Vangelis on folk song album Odes and on 666, the final studio album of Greek progressive rock band Aphrodite's Child. Greek actress and singer Irene Papas dies aged 96 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z She soon found herself onstage at the Treble Clef bar and cafe, harmonizing with the band on folk songs like “Down by the Riverside” and “Banks of the Ohio.” Judith Durham, who sang with Australia’s the Seekers, dies at 79 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z Before lunch, students sing Burmese folk songs and dance and drum to Liberian beats. Way up there in blue: Seven children dead in Kabul — who is to blame? 2022-08-27T04:00:00Z Vicuña had always promoted “the other poetry” — the folk songs, catcalls and protest anthems, “popular and anonymous,” that fertilize institutional literature from below. Cecilia Vicuña’s Desire Lines 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z “Quite apart from its place in Aboriginal history, it is a great Australian folk song, perhaps the greatest since ‘The Band Played Waltzing Matilda.’ Archie Roach, a mesmerizing voice of Indigenous Australia, dies at 66 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z Throughout the performance, she would occasionally break into songs she’d composed, including “Bedroom Eyes,” a tongue-in-cheek folk song about a “strong man” taken in by a woman with a “heart of bronze.” L.A. artist Carole Caroompas, performer and painter who bucked convention, dies at 76 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z Visitors to the medieval site, built by Muslim rulers 1,233 years ago, enter hearing the words of Jewish liturgical poetry and Arab folk songs, each sung to the same Arab music. Below an Israeli City, a Musical Harmony Belies the Tensions Above Ground 2022-07-23T04:00:00Z The entertainer performed a number of songs, among them the powerful verses of “Bald Headed Woman,” the hypnotic folk song “Sylvie” and the melancholic tempo of “Suzanne.” Harry Belafonte: Singer, activist and first Black Emmy winner 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z “It is lauded in tales, folk songs and proverbs and viewed as a lifestyle and identity marker,” the committee’s decision said. UNESCO recognizes borscht as a Ukrainian dish in urgent need of safeguarding. 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z On Sunday afternoon, the Jubilee Voices perform African American spirituals and folk songs and tell stories of freedom and the Underground Railroad at the city’s Market Square. How to celebrate Juneteenth in the D.C. area 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z In September, he was recorded crooning Serbian folk songs with Djokovic at the wedding of an Olympic gold medalist in judo. Bosnia on the Brink 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z In recent years the folk song has been adopted by several sports teams, including rugby clubs and Wrexham AFC, but its origins are more political than sporting. World Cup 2022: Dafydd Iwan's Yma O Hyd tops charts again 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z Food is shared while they belt out local folk songs to lift spirits. In Nigeria's disappearing forests, loggers outnumber trees 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z |
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