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Beautiful Isle of Somewhere" is a song with words by Jessie Brown Pounds and music by John Sylvester Fearis, written in 1897. The song gained huge popularity when it was used in William McKinley's funeral. It was subsequently a staple at funerals for decades, and there are dozens of recorded versions.
The "Keep 'Em Smiling" song sheet produced by the Indianapolis War Camp Community Service in 1917/18, including "Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit-Bag" "Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit-Bag, and Smile, Smile, Smile" is the full name of a World War I marching song, published in 1915 in London.
Musical quotation is to be distinguished from variation, where a composer takes a theme (their own or another's) and writes variations on it.In that case, the origin of the theme is usually acknowledged in the title (e.g., Johannes Brahms's Variations on a Theme by Haydn).
George Cooper (May 14, 1840, New York City – September 26, 1927, New York City) was an American poet remembered chiefly for his song lyrics, many set to music by Stephen Foster. He translated the lyrics of German, Russian, Italian, Spanish, and French musical works into singable English.
Pilot and composer Max Conrad's second LP of Flight Inspired Music, which features the poem on the cover. Scott O'Grady's book Return With Honor, which has a full transcript of the poem. One Small Step, a children's novel by Philip Kerr, reprints the poem in full before the Author's Note.
Portal:Classical music/Quotes/10 Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection.
Modern choral arrangements of this song sound entirely different from either the Eyes-Prize or Hand-Plow songs. [14] Both Sandburg in the preface to his book and folk singer Pete Seeger in the opening remarks to his Carnegie Hall performance of "Keep Your Eyes on the Prize" note the malleability of American and African-American folk music.
The passengers on the bus sing the song in the 1934 Frank Capra film It Happened One Night. [2] The song was the basis of the 1934 Popeye the Sailor musical cartoon The Man on the Flying Trapeze sung by Billy Costello. In the 1934 Fox film George White's Scandals, the song is performed by Rudy Vallee.