Poetry in song III; Listen as if they were our words

Poetry in song. The National Association of educational broadcasters presented by tape recording a series of programmes prepared song and narrated by Holbert Mitchell American concert artist and editor of the poetry and song Bulletin. These programs feature outstanding musical settings of poetry and the literary anthologies of the world. Thus integrating the fields of music and literature. Here now to give us poetry in song is Hobart Mitchell. Just as the singer should sing his songs as though the words were his words and the experiences and thoughts and feelings his experiences and thoughts and feelings. So in listening we should listen as if the words were the singer's own words coming directly out of his life. The song program then becomes like good theater wherein the actor becomes the character he plays and we look upon what we see as being an actual living of life rather than a play performance.

When this happens either in the theatre or in a song program the experience becomes moving and sometimes unforgettable. Such theatre or song can open a new and larger world to us revealing the feeling and thought of the experiences that have not fall into our lives. If we listen in this way to Walt Whitman's a site in camp which Dom Thomas Simons has said we can get a wisp of the feeling of the Civil War times and become aware of the sensitivity of this man who rode out of his experience in the hospital camps. For. Us.

For us. With the lights

off. Oh my word. Well a great song was. I've been trying

for. Careers race of the riders names. There was. A spiritual such as h t Burley's arrangement of balm in Gilead has given more meaning and perhaps even a deeper feeling for us if we will let our imagination build the scene of a negro religious meeting of ante bellum days and fill in the humanity and life behind it. A light hearted song such as Shakespeare's when Daisy's pied in the Tom assigned

setting delightful as it is for its own sake takes on a richer flavor and meaning another dimension. If one remembers the time and place and culture in which such songs were sung. One day it's right there. Yeah. Oh I

was. There. Who. Who who what. When songs are heard in this way the beauties of the poetry and the melodies and rhythms

of the music serve to heighten and intensify the moods of the songs and we come away from a song program with an increase of understanding of life which art in all its forms should give to those who listen to and look upon it. So a song like William Blake's the divine image as it is set by Virgil Thompson images God through His attributes of mercy pity and peace. If we have never thought of God in this way through Blake's point we can be stimulated in our thought about him. Well. Oh my oh. Oh oh.

Oh oh. Oh oh. Oh yeah good luck to you. Oh of

course. Oh my oh my oh my. Oh man. You have been listening to poetry and song. This has been one of a series of tape recorded programs especially produce song and narrated by Hobart Mitchell for the National Association of educational broadcasters. Mr. Mitchell formerly an English teacher at New York University is widely known for his concert programs of poetry and song and for his research in this field. He will be very happy to supply information concerning the songs heard on these programs

to anyone who will write to him in care of this station. These programs are recorded in the studios of radio station WCAU Al that's in all of college in Northfield Minnesota. This is the end of the Radio Network.