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Poet Allen Ginsberg, in California for some college lectures, also did a little singing, accompanying himself on his harmonium. He and his father, Louis Ginsberg, 77, have started putting blues-style melodies to the verses the older Ginsberg, a retired teacher, still composes. Louis' poems are not at all like Allen's. They rhyme: "It was not coffee/ I was drinking up/ But something wine-like from your spirits...
...book) proceeds, Bobby's intellectuals and the scores of people who knew him recall their encounters with him-sometimes momentous, sometimes amusing. It is hard to imagine many Senators, for example, receiving "Hare Krishnas" from Allen Ginsberg. Kennedy did just that. "I pulled out a little harmonium and sang through two choruses," Ginsberg recalls. "He stayed to listen. The 'Hare Krishna' mantra was more important than the whole conversation. So he stood there, and I sang for a minute and then quit." Kennedy was less patient with Poet Robert Lowell's insistent recitation of The Education...
...Stevens while he was at Harvard. Morse's discussion of Stevens' three plays, with their curious chinoiserie, fanciful staging, and playfully symbolic characters is intelligent and helpful. And his account of the poems that were added, deleted, and emended in the course of the construction of Stevens' first book, Harmonium, is proficient and engaging...
Boos and Bravos. Penderecki scored the opera for an 80-voice chorus and a massive orchestra: 32 woodwind and brass instruments, 42 strings, an organ, harmonium, electric bass guitar and a diverse array of percussion instruments, including timpani and musical saw. Though it produces the now familiar range of Penderecki sound-semi-tones and quarter tones, tone clusters, glissandi and primitive knocking noises-the orchestra plays a secondary role to the chorus, which is constantly busy humming, singing neo-Gregorian chant, screaming, laughing, muttering and yelping...
Cantos, Thirty Cantos. Marcel Proust, Du Cote de Chez Swann. Raymond Radiguet, Le Diable au Corps. Arthur Rimbaud, Les Illuminations. Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Vol de Nuit. Jean-Paul Sartre, La Nausee. Edith Sitwell, Collected Poems. Stephen Spender, Ruins and Visions. Wallace Stevens, Harmonium. Lytton Strachey, Eminent Victorians. J. M. Synge, The Playboy of the Western