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STEPHEN FOSTER Composer of American Folk Songs.
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.. ' Via Music OSTER ' S melodies describe the Victorian era, an age that, beneath its superficialities, was dignified and serene, and held a leisurely and contem- plative outlook on life. But, more than that, they are deeply emotional. There is, for instance, that longing for the past that trembles in all of them, a longing for friends now gone, and for scenes that exist no more. One hears in them the cry for freedom of an oppressed people; the race whose lament they originally voiced has since stepped from under the yoke, but humanity as a whole is as much in slavery as ever — its master. Death, is as cruelly indifferent as any the Negro ever knew. But this plea for liberation so apparent in Foster ' s songs is not bitter; as one listens, it changes from a lament into calm resignation, resig- nation to immutable universal laws. If Foster ' s music abounded in complicated rhythms and elaborate harmonies, it would be neither so beautiful nor so profound. Its greatness is in its simplic- ity. Let genuine simplicity be the guiding spirit of the new Butler; let this uni- versity be unhampered by the inconsequential that have crept into many modern educational institutions — tiresome rules, bothersome regulations, meaningless courses. Let Butler become not a great factory of lucrative professions, but a place of quietude and seclusion, a place where the student will feel arise within him a yearning for the infinite, a desire for a higher existence. What has his education profited a graduate, no matter how learned a scholar, or how competent a doctor, or how expert an economist he has become, if, after his college years are over, he does not feel akin to the courageous intelligence that has been striving, since time began, to lift life from the darkness of impersonality and futility up to the light of consciousness and meaning? -
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