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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. The song which on the surface is just a combination of words and music reveals itself when a singer interprets it as a human being's reaction to some life experience. The words then become the singer's words and he utters them as though the experience were his own. Students singers are often too young in years and inexperienced in singing to be able to interpret songs effectively from within themselves. And then the teacher has to give his student the song interpretations. At this stage the
interpretation is applied to the outside of the song like Chale like the student does what he is told and with his limited resources of feeling. But until he passes beyond this stage his singing will be immature and wouldn't be superficially Interesting perhaps but not persuasive unmoving. The singer has to go into the song himself catch its feeling and meaning for himself without any teacher around to guide him. Only then will his interpretation take on life. He has to make the song his. He has to go beneath the surface dig into the song until he understands and feels its meaning then he will be able to sing the song expressively and touch the hearts of his listeners. The moods of many songs lie within any singer's range of experience and feeling. What singer or other human being can grow up without experiencing at some time the
feeling of desperate aloneness which William mimes Fisher's arrangement of sometimes i feel like a motherless child expresses. Oh oh. Oh oh my oh my. God.
Oh my. God. What. True. As for.
The. Song. True was
the way 0 0 0 for me boy. Oh no. So it's on us way way off.
Oh I heard. Who is not seen and found in someone of human kind the proud self absorption expressed in constant VO clane setting of Sir Walter Scott's proud Mazie a pretty girl but too vain and prim ever to win a husband. Amazing Daisy the day. Dancer 0 0 6 0. 0 0 and out on to an Iowa 6 0 0 0. 0 0 0 8 0 0 0 thereafter to say
they're headed sacks out of the grave. Oh my store oh oh. Oh oh the rum was to say. The words of Rabindranath Tagore is do not go my love in this setting by Richard how common are words that come out of the depth of a great love. Perhaps as one watches by the sick bed of his beloved. Ask.
Us. Ice. Would I have it in my own
heart. I'm fine. Oh yeah yeah yeah. Oh oh oh oh oh dang. In quite a different mood Thomas Moore's When love is kind expresses very neatly and with good humor. A rule or two for behavior. Here the one who sings seems to be the self-focus demanding one. Way and love is
love. Where we come from where yes I am so it's ok to me. Love kindness. Black short I assume you. Would buy a. Mustang on Diamond MC.
Oh I thought oh I was on a tear and turning again to the literature of the Negro spiritual we find in William arms Fisher's arrangement of has anybody here seen my Jesus. A song that lets us express our joy and exuberance. Jesus wants to see changes as they're seen. As Oh no
just say something. Load was God's reign by us was oh oh oh oh oh I. Thought it was God I wanted to say I was just sad. Oh my God. 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.
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Series
Poetry in song III
Episode
The relationship between singer and song
Producing Organization
WCAL (Radio station : St. Olaf College)
Carleton College (Northfield, Minn.)
Contributing Organization
University of Maryland (College Park, Maryland)
AAPB ID
cpb-aacip/500-sf2mbd5s
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Description
Episode Description
Additional discussion of the relationship between a singer and the song.
Series Description
This series presents outstanding musical settings of poetry and literary anthologies, integrating the worlds of music and literature.
Broadcast Date
1959-01-01
Topics
Music
Literature
Media type
Sound
Duration
00:15:00
Credits
Host: Warren, Rich
Performer: Hagen, John P.
Producer: Mitchell, Hobart, 1908-
Producing Organization: WCAL (Radio station : St. Olaf College)
Producing Organization: Carleton College (Northfield, Minn.)
AAPB Contributor Holdings
University of Maryland
Identifier: 59-16-8 (National Association of Educational Broadcasters)
Format: 1/4 inch audio tape
Duration: 00:14:41
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Chicago: “Poetry in song III; The relationship between singer and song,” 1959-01-01, University of Maryland, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed March 29, 2024, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-500-sf2mbd5s.
MLA: “Poetry in song III; The relationship between singer and song.” 1959-01-01. University of Maryland, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. March 29, 2024. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-500-sf2mbd5s>.
APA: Poetry in song III; The relationship between singer and song. Boston, MA: University of Maryland, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-500-sf2mbd5s