Sentences with word «folksong»

AROUND THE WORLD IN SONG A delightful arrangement of folksongs from 15 different countries including Africa, New Zealand, Ireland, Japan and Israel.

I especially like a sequence in which a young woman walks through a cemetery at dusk and begins to sing «La Llarona,» a traditional folksong about a mother who is trapped between the living and the dead, doomed to wander the earth until she finds the children she murdered.

There it was natural to begin with the history, for while some very early folksongs antedate any written history and the prophecy of Amos was the earliest complete book, an important part of the history found in the Old Testament was written before any other major type of literature emerged.

Singers performing on Saturday include John Scott and Jim Douglas from Folksong in the Classroom, who will perform sea songs, and members of the Old Sturbridge Village Singing School, who will present a concert of traditional songs.

Edelweiss isn't a traditional Austrian folksong, after all, but a pastiche invented by Rodgers and Hammerstein for The Sound of Music.

Love poetry, woven with folksongs of political protest, forms some of the most poignanat music heard in Latin America today.

• As with Miller's Crossing, composer Carter Burwell based the score on a traditional song connected with the cultural heritage of the characters in the film, in this case a Norwegian folksong called «The Lost Sheep.»

The film features performances of the festive folksong by everyone from Connie Francis to Danny Kaye to Harry Belafonte to Chubby Checker.

Broken Voices: Postcolonial Entanglements and the Preservation of Korea's Central Folksong Traditions (Music and Performing Arts of Asia and the Pacific)

Broken Voices is the first English - language book on Korea's rich folksong heritage, and the first major study of the effects of Japanese colonialism on the intangible heritage of its former colony.

University Libraries Officially Open the Digital Ozark Folksong Collection (University of Arkansas)

«We have tried to stray away from what is typically referred to as Swedish graphic design,» Kirtley explains, «and therefore gone for a warm graphic tone, and a colour palette inspired by the classic Swedish folksong Sol, Vind og Vatten (sun, wind and water) by Ted Gärdestad.

Susan Philipsz's Lowlands fills an entire empty gallery — well, it's empty apart from three black speakers, which project slightly different recordings of her singing a melancholy 16th - century folksong, a cappella about a lost love who returns from the grave to haunt his beloved.

The exhibition's press release is the Irish folksong «The Ballad of Arthur McBride,» in which the narrator rejects the efforts of British military recruiters, and instead beats them up and steals their money.

The show's panelists were asked to name the Australian folksong that could be heard in the Men at Work single, and the answer was «Kookaburra.»

There is also much national and patriotic poetry in the Old Testament, most of it early folksongs that got woven into the «JEDP» story.

Lively, traditional folksongs, stories and riddles from the colonial era played on authentic instruments portray a sense of bustling commerce and productive activity.

As the camera pulls away from the house, a homeless drifter walks along singing the «Jesse James» folksong.

Folksongs and other music traditions continue to be prominent in South Korea, which today is better known for its technological prowess and the Korean Wave of popular entertainment.

In 2009, many Koreans reacted with dismay when China officially recognized the folksong Arirang, commonly regarded as the national folksong in North and South Korea, as part of its national intangible cultural heritage.

The diversity of the folksong Arirang, with its many regional variations and flavors across Korea, was well matched by the eclectic artwork featured in Arirang: 17 Women Artists, which opened at the Korean Cultural Center Washington DC in May 2012.

There will be a special focus on how Kjartansson takes on local elements in his site specific and commissioned work, FOLKSONG.