Samuel D Hanson School - Crescent Yearbook (Buxton, ME)

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u I . X p 5 .1 Qu. l s frsaamassesmr -so f o -o-. amounting to the great sum of thirty-eight cents aid a slip of paper upon which was perhaps,the title td-a new unwritten song,HDcar Friends and Gentle Heartsn. Vinetta Kelly x . 'L sa an :L K U .. 1. .. .. 19 'ar 1 ' MUSIC AND OUR GOOD NEIGHBOR POLICY Music is a promoter of better understanding between the United States and her next door neighbors. The radio has done a great deal towards introducing our music to the other countries and bringing their music back to us. For instanco,hexico's radio station XEU,the Voice of Latin America,is heard far into the United States and our programs are being heard in Mexico and Central America. The Mexicans like to hear our symphony orchestras and also our hillbilly music. One of their favorites was HPistol Packin' Maman. Mexican dance music seems to be very popular with most Americans. Many or their songs have been played and sung over and over again in North and South America. One of them was HBesame Nuchou. Moving pictures are also doing their share towards bringing our countries closer together. Today the movies have a large amount of music in them. New the members of our fighting forces are carrying our musie,songs and dances to the far corners of the earth. Soon they'll be bringing songs from those far countries back to us. Thethor it's a stirring march from Canada or a soft ballad from Ireland,we learn it and like it. Also we like and understand the people who sent it to us a little better. Beverly Harmonifgg swf . . ' .I ..-,rvgffay ighitgiiyui wfggg X.. f. if A ii 'J' .,EiEEwM-we rr fr ,M' avian ' - Zffilg ',-r:g52s','f' sisfs :Q :asf ' V, , g:':t...,, .,:, 5: wQf.yJ5s' ufm TSSHQT , 5 v1-h Y u I ' N' 1

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..... 'W.QBESCEhTa W as a T- a 5a the lowing of cattle,in the blaring of horns,in the barking of dogs,and the laughter of children. In peace or war,in calm or strife,through plea- sure or pCin,music and poetry are with us from the rocking of the cradle to the silence of the grave. ' Ruth Ranks U ., 'N' -,r wr HDEAR FRIENDS AND GENTLE HEARTSH It was about one hundred years ago in Philadelphia that Stephen Foster had his first song published. Since then people all over the United States,indeed all over the world,have learned to love his melodies of the South of which Foster wrote with love even though he never went any further South than Pennsylvania. When we sing these wellknown sengs,do we ever wonder if his immortal songs were Hcomposadn from his own life? Do we ever think of the hardships of that young composer? Today,even though we think of his works as masterpieces which should have sold for perhaps five hundred dollars, do we realize how little he received for his works? Host ef his compositions were sold for ten dollars or if he were more fortunate,3ifteen or twenty dollars. And, you ask,n.hy did he not receive more for his precious time and efforts?H That we can not answer,ner can anyone,for fate stepped in at just the fatal hour,for all his life he ' was unrecognized for the great artist that he was.... an artist who could paint pictures into his songs.... pictures that will live in our memories for years and even centuries to come. Yet he was unproelaimed as suehg all his life he lived in poverty,sometimes being fortu- nate enough to obtain a lodging for twenty-five cents a night,sometimes not having enough money to buy food. Stephen Foster was a kindly man always striving to gain the fortune which was rightfully hisgalways obli- god to work for even a meager sum. The one happiness in his life was his beloved wife,Jane,for whom he composed HJeanie Tith The Light Brown Hairn. They were happy together for only a short time as his wife left him because he was unable to support her. Ve wonder whether if she had been true to him he would have obtained the fame which he should have had? Would his works have been sold for a small fortune? We can only guess what the outcome of his life would have been......only guess the answer to these many ques- tions,for there are a great many questions in the life of Stephen Foster. When in 1864 Foster died,no one knew or cared except,perhaps,his biographer,John Tasker Howard,for it was he who found in Foster's purse a few coins

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