 | Horatio William Parker - Acting - 1911 - 444 pages
...dreaminess of "Oh, What Comes over the Sea?" and the dramatic fire of "Betrayed" and "Nameless Pain." Her "Lament" I consider one of the greatest of songs,...individuality, too, and finds out new effects that betray little sense of effort after strangeness. Of somewhat similar refinement are the fluent lyrics... | |
 | Jane M. Bowers, Judith Tick - Art - 1986 - 428 pages
...womanliness equally marks "The Grief of Love" . . . marks the bitterness of "Oh, What Comes over the Sea." Her "Lament" I consider one of the greatest of songs,...positive of woman's high capabilities for composition. Hughes judged Lang's work by the degree to which the emotive content of her work corresponded to his... | |
 | Gilbert Chase - Music - 1992 - 768 pages
...Love" and "Oh, What Comes over the Sea." Rupert Hughes wrote that he considered her "Lament" to be "one of the greatest of songs, and proof positive of woman's high capabilities for composition."'4 Lang's Dramatic Overture was performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1893: the... | |
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Spinning Song " is inexpressibly sad, and such music as women best understand, and therefore ought to make best. But womanliness equally marks "The Grief of Love," which is in every sense big in quality ; marks the bitterness of " Oh, What Comes over... 