Jump rope rhymes and their meanings explored by Dr. Butler
Dr. Francelia Butler, professor at the University of Connecticut, surveys skip rope rhymes once common in schoolyards. She has collected over 2,000 rhymes since 1943, tracing their origins to English ballads and noting their reflection of family dynamics and childhood challenges.
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Francelia Butler
University of Connecticut
United States
Europe
Dr. Butler
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Annie
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Vietnam
Greece
Japan
Rome
Dial Press
Voice recital opens Windham concert year
Putney Calliope Shenas contralto and George Soules pianist open the 1974 75 Windham College Concert Series with a 8 15 p m Sunday Sept 22 program at the Windham Fine Arts Center featuring Italian German Spanish French and Greek songs. The duo have performed across New England and Shenas teaches at Mount Holyoke while Soules leads Windham music and the Collegium in Early Music. Their program includes works by Monteverdi Schumann Brahms Schonberg Mompou and Ravel plus Greek folk songs. Admission is 1 50.
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Windham Fine Arts Center
L’orfeo
Monteverdi
Konigen
Maria Stuart
Schumann
Von
Brahms
Arnold Schonberg
Frederico Mompou
Maurice Ravel
Calliope Shenas
Olga Avarino
Boston
Joseph Regneas
New York
Boris Goldovsky
Mount Holyoke College
George Soules
Hartt College of Music
Raymond Hanson
Moshe Paranov
Harold Bauer
Windham
Windham Collegium
SVACs Fall Exhibition Opens at Southern Vermont Art Center
Manchester Vermont The Southern Vermont Art Center unveils its 18th Fall Exhibition featuring sculpture, paintings and prints. The juried show runs from Sept 21 to Oct 13 with a 3 to 5 p.m. artist reception. Admission 50 cents. free for children 12 and under and on Tuesdays.
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Manchester
Southern Vermont Art Center
Art Center
Vermont
Elfriede Abbe
Richard Clarke
Eve Dawson
Beatrice Jackson
Stephen Maniatty
Robert O. Frick
James L. Montague
Brendan Gill first Emmy win marks TV debut
New Yorker critic Brendan Gill, fresh off winning an Emmy for moderating PBS Behind the Lines, speaks from his cluttered Word Factory office about his dream of being Alistair Cooke. He notes TV demands acting, training, and nerves, while praising TV commercials as nearly poetic despite finding much programming lacking in intellect.
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UPI
Brendan Gill
PBS
Alistair Cooke
Alistair
Gill
Masterpiece Theater
Cooke
New Yorker Magazine
the Earth
Word Factory
The
New Yorker
Nixon
The Great Gatsby plays at Harte on Main Street
At the Movies reviews note Sam Waterston shines as Nick in The Great Gatsby with lavish period detail but criticizes the film's length and a static Gatsby performance. Also on offer at Twin Cinemas are two French X rated titles The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe and Le Sex Shop, plus Gone With The Wind. Manchester showcases Playtime by Jacques Tati with times via local numbers.
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Sam Waterston
Nick
Robert Redford
Harte
Main Street
Twin Cinemas Cinema I
France
New Yorker
Cinema II
Pierre Richard
HURS
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Tatiana Zhuk
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Tatiana Sharonova
Vladimir Podobina
Burdett & Peoples
Troy
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