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how the mimeographed newspaper gets its news from Maryville so quickly.-Baritone PresentsMorning’s Program4 «Earle Spicer Sings Ballad s: Music and Comments on 1 1History of Songs.This morning at the assembly hour, Earle Spicer, noted baritone, presented an unusual program. He came to the College as a part of the entertainment series provided for the students and the general public.The singer who claims Acadia, the country of Evangeline, as his native land, opened his program with a group of traditional English ballads. His numbers included “The Cornish Dance” arranged by Ross; “Lord Handel,” a ballad of about 1300, arranged by Cyril Scott; “The4Bashful Lover” arranged by Johnson; “Barbara Allen” arranged by Roger Quilter; and “Up From Zom-erset” arranged by Sanderson.The next group of songs were chosen -from Shakespeare lyrics and from the operas of Gilbert and Sullivan. From “As You Like It,” Mi*. Spicer sang “It Was a Lover and His Lass,” by Thomas Morley; and from “The Tempest,” he sang “No More Dams I'll Make for Fish,” by John -Smith. “Tit Willow,” from “The Mikado,” and “When I Was a Lad,!' from “H. M. S. Pinafore,” were the selections used from Gilbert and Sullivan.For closing his program, the baritone used traditional American ballads. He sang “The Little Maw-hee,” a Carolina folk song, in an arrangement by Bartholomew; “The Tune the Old Cow Died On” arranged: by Helen Norfleet; “The Erie Canal,” a New York ballad, as arranged by Ernst Bacon; “The Warranty Deed,” from Vermont, in the Robert Hughes arrangement; and “The Arkansas. Traveller,” arranged by tMerl Freeland.Earle Spicer interspersed comment with his songs, thus giving his audience a backgrounds for appreciation of the ballads.
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Maryville Northwest Missourian
Maryville, Missouri, US
Wed, Nov 10, 1943
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