A Canadian Recital
Canadian artists who are winning increased recognition for
themselves in Canada and abroad will combine their talents on March 14th to
provide a program of unusual interest on Sunday Morning Recital (10.30a.m.
-Trans-Canada). Soprano Lois Marshall, accompanied at the piano by her teacher, Weldon Kilburn, will be heard in songs by Canadian composers Oskar Morawetz and Welford Russell.
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Three songs in the second group, by Oskar Morawetz, are also
settings for English poems, in this case by William Blake. The fourth song, I am so tired, with lyrics by Toronto poet Ann Wilkinson, is one of Morawetz's favorites, chiefly because of its rather ironical history. When it was first presented, a Toronto critic spent a very long paragraph tearing it apart. Undaunted, the composer included it in a number of songs he sent to the famous American Negro soprano Dorothy Maynor, who was about to set out on an extended tour. I am so tired was the song she chose, and she sang it wherever she went.
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