Show SPIRITUALS POPULAR Russians Enjoy Plaintive Notes of Hymns V MOSCO UP UP Despite their heir deep deep- religious flavor American negro spirituals arc are extremely popular with concert audiences in iii s Russia Several So American singers sills who visited this country In th tho last few years ears included these spirituals on their programs and by hy this Soviet music lovers lo ha have haC C como come to ep expect cl Bye Dye and B ByeS Bye e and others othern of or the tho spirituals on American programs programs pro plO grams as a matter of or co course The Tho n negro ru singer Roland Ha Hayes 1 cs whose conceit t tour tOUl in tho the Soviet union about two years nS ago Is still remembered bored did much to popularize this type of American folk Colic song ong At the moment a talented American t tenor nor Sergei ot of New York and Boston Is Js underlining that popular popular- I ity tr I is a plaintive c heart catchIng catch catch- In fag Ing note in our out American spiritual spirituals spirit spirit- ual k told the United Press PresS' which seems to fa fascinate tho thio Russian listener The response of or Russians to this negro cry to tol l heaven eaven Is almost always Nevertheless e the tho religious chara character character char char- a acter ter of these songs sometimes makes it a a. little lItlIe embarrassing for tor forthe I the tho American here Soviet audiences ho no longer care much about church music or 0 hymns of or i nn any kind Jhc They accept the tile spirituals 1 with th enthusiasm unaware that the they arc are applauding hymns Recently at a n. concert b by Radam- Radam sky in the Conservatory here the audience greatly stirred b by his rendition rendition ren ren- of or certain negro neg hymns asked him to translate the text o of the spirituals which he be had sUn sung lIe He did 1 But Hut ho took enough h liberties with tho the t text to obscure the fact that It II was vas Bye Byc ye and Bye which is the tile negros negro's ecstatic ecstatic- song hong on about bliss in hi heaven hta a. a as the poor POOP ne negros negro's ros ro's dream of a a. happier future Only a R. white lie about a no darky song on ho said id later I But the m music i Is too beautiful to bo be denied d to Russian audiences Just because the words arc aro perhaps not to the taste of or some of them |