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Page: of 451
APRIL 14, 1950 STANDARD SCHOOL BROADCAST, No. 24
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Excerpt from Portrait of a Frontier Town, by Don Gillis. (Printed by permission
of Boosey & Hawkes, copyright owners.)
Period F: The Map That Is America
CHURCH, HOME
AND SCHOOL
ova
eo Re ey Ae RR GES A Ne a
CADENCE
OF THE COMMUNITY
The church, home and school are
typical symbols of the American
community. These three elements
of community life—religion, family
and education—have inspired much
music, including Variations on a
Pious Theme (George Foote) , Time
Suite: Religion and Memories of a
Child’s Sunday (Roy Harris), Friday Evening Service (¥rederick
Jacobi), Prelude to a Hymn-Tune
(Otto Luening), American FolkHymns Suite (Reuel Lahmer), Fantasy on Christmas Carols (Benjamin Ludlow), Folk-Hymns (John
Powell), Western Psalm (Lazare
Saminsky), An American Psalm
(Robert Sanders), Cathedral Prelude (David Stanley Smith), Fantasy on Hymn Tunes (Leo Sowerby), Symphony on a Hymn Tune
(Virgil Thomson) and Saint Frances Cabrini (Harold Orlob).
Much concert-type music has
been written about the American
home, and especially its children,
such as Sketches from Childhood
(Irwin Fischer) , The Skating Pond
(Bernard Herrmann), Sleigh Ride
(Leroy Anderson), Babes in Toyland (Victor Herbert), Knee-High
to a Grasshopper (Eastwood Lane),
Realm of Dolls (Quinto Maganini),
Nursery Rhyme Suite (Frances
McCollin), Pages from a Child’s
Story Book (Gerald Keenan),
From Childhood (Harl McDonald), March of the Tin Soldiers,
On Parade, Marionettes (Gardner
Read), Marionettes (Edward MacDowell), Children’s Games (Elie
Siegmeister), The Ole Swimmin’
Hole (Lamar Stringfield), Marco
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DONS ee VL putvil
Takes a Walk (Deems Taylor).
Education in music is represented in such works as Collegiana
(Wesley La Violette) and Selections
from McGuffey’s Reader (Burrill
Phillips), while other phases of
American community life and the
small town in particular are the
subjects of compositions like Portrait of a Frontier Town and
Cowtown (Don Gillis), Our Town
and Quiet City (Aaron Copland),
Country Roads (Ernst Bacon),
County Fair (Evelyn Berckman),
Suburban Sketches (Frances McCollin), Farm. Journal and Village
Music (Douglas Moore), Rural
Music (Alex: ‘North), Courthouse
Square (Burrill Phillips), Ac the.
Fair (John Powell), Satur2y
Night (Robert Sanders), Filli By
Station (Virgil Thomson), Sart
Fair (Richard Rodgers).
SUGGESTED READING
“Mama's Bank Account,” by Kathryn Forbes, published by Harcourt,
Brace and Company, is a charming
story about an American family.
In this book Kathryn Forbes tells
us a few of the wonderful things
she remembers about her childhood
and, particularly, about Mama:
how she managed the bank ac
count—about Uncle Elizabeth, the
cot with at least nine lives—Mama's
little ladies and their first day at
Ninford school for girlk—Mama's
neat balls in sour cream sauce and
the fancy afternoon tea—and many
oiher stories that tell of Mama's
goodness, humor and _ instinctive
wisdom.
"Mama's Bank Account’ was
made into a successful play, yh “s
Remember Mama," and into +
motion picture under the same title’
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