In this preliminary search for a coherent and continuous cohesion of western art and folk music-cultures, Berio utilizes folk songs from seven distinct as the basis for composition. The technique for combining western classical and folk music is...
Wolf, Hugo, 1860-1903; Music and literature; Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832. West-östlicher Divan; Ḥāfiẓ, 14th cent.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's West-ostlicher Divan combines the Persian influence of the fourteenth-century poet Hafiz with Goethe's own Germanic literary heritage. The result was a synthesis of symbolism and multivalent meanings that Goethe himself...
In the 1990s, especially the years before and after Hong Kong's return to the People's Republic of China in 1997, some celebrated and talented Hong Kong film stars, such as Jackie Chan, Yun-Fat Chow and Michelle Yeoh, sought their career success in...
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616; Courtly love in literature
"It is in the south of France and at a very early period that we must look for the origin of the system of Courtly Love. Gathered about several small courts, there existed, as early as the eleventh century, a brilliant society, in which woman...
Address: 321 W. Walnut Street (now Muhammad Ali Boulevard), Louisville, Kentucky. The display window of the Player Roll Shop advertises Q.R.S. Player Rolls, "Records by the Mile" and specific songs, including "My Mammy,"...
Horses; Boys; Banners; American Folk Song Festival
Children on horseback carry a sign reading "Jean Thomas presents Dorothy Gordon in American Folk Songs" through a cornfield next to a haystack. Thomas had met Gordon, a folk song interpreter, while working in New York City, and invited...
Two boys stand on a hillside holding a sign reading "Jean Thomas presents Dorothy Gordon in American Folk Songs." Thomas had met Gordon, a folk song interpreter, while working in New York City, and invited her to perform at the first...
Boys; Banners; Girls; Hills; American Folk Song Festival
Three boys and a girl stand on a hillside holding a sign reading "Jean Thomas presents Dorothy Gordon in American Folk Songs." Thomas had met Gordon, a folk song interpreter, while working in New York City, and invited her to perform at...
Boys; Banners; Cliffs; American Folk Song Festival
Three boys hold a sign reading "Jean Thomas presents Dorothy Gordon in American Folk Songs" over a cliff. Thomas had met Gordon, a folk song interpreter, while working in New York City, and invited her to perform at the first American...
African Americans; African American singers; African American musicians; Jazz; Jazz singers; Women jazz musicians
Oral history interview with Helen Humes, a jazz singer from Louisville, conducted on June 12, 1979 by Mary Bobo, for the University of Louisville Archives and Records Center. In this interview, Ms. Humes discusses her career, including her start in...
Baseball cards; Athletes; Baseball players; Chicago White Sox (Baseball team)
Doc White or Guy Harris White (1879-1969). Color portrait of Doc White with the Chicago White Sox. A white stocking is in the top left corner and 'White Sox' is in the top right. Verso: G.H. White. 'Doc' White, the Chicago Americans' left-handed...
Buildings; Dwellings; Houses; Foster, Stephen Collins, 1826-1864; State parks & reserves; Historic buildings
Parlor musicians at Federal Hill. On back of image: "Bardstown Ky. My Old Ky. Home. July 1933. Singing Foster songs." A man wearing a tuxedo plays piano, a woman plays harp, and four other women gather around listening at Federal Hill...
Mary Newcomb of Louisville, Kentucky, wearing a blazer and tie shirt. Crop marks frame her face, and the photograph has been cut in half. Handwritten on back of image: Louisville, Authority of Folk songs. Stamped on back: December 15, 1932.
Signs (Notices); Log cabins; Costumes--United States; Men; Women; Boys; Girls; Banners; Stringed instruments; Banjos; Guitars; Zithers; Musicians; American Folk Song Festival; Folk festivals
Jean Thomas (wearing her 'Narrator' costume of long black dress and white collar) holds a book entitled "The Singin' Gatherin'." The assembled group on the steps of Jean's "Traipsin' Woman Cabin" on the Mayo Trail near Ashland,...
Psalters--England--Illustrations; Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval--England; Manuscripts, Medieval; Illuminations 1200-1500
A Psalter or Book of Psalms is a book of the Hebrew Bible with the text of 150 songs, traditionally believed to have been written by the Hebrew King David. The Psalter was used for both public worship and private prayers and, until Books of Hours...
Galvanized steel and concrete. "Deacon's organically related forms often derive from sources in the Bible, poetry, fairy stories, and figures of speech. In the two versions of the laminated wood sculpture For Those Who Have Ears (1982-3), for...
