Word: hymning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...composer, Floyd has a Verdian flair for extracting the last drops of dramatic juice from many of his scenes. In the revival meeting, Susannah's dramatic pin nacle, the congregation sings a realis tic back-country hymn while Evangelist Blitch (Bass-Baritone Norman Treigle) rants in the foreground, and the music gradually transmutes and builds to shat tering climax. On the other hand Composer Floyd is sometimes seduced from the true path by his own melodies, nota bly when he sets Susannah (Soprano Phyllis Curtin) to singing the intermina ble verses of a pretty, folk-song-like lament just...
Soon the girl, who was given the name of Yang Kwei Fei, was dressed in robes of finest silk, and sent to wait upon the emperor where he took his tea among the flowering plums. He took up his lute and made a hymn to the budding grove. The maiden, listening, was pierced to the heart by his music. She thought, "He must be seeking sincerity." That night she was sent to wait upon the emperor in his bedchamber. When he came to bed and saw her fresh and tender as a flowering branch, he staggered back. "Who sent...
John, Duke of Marlborough (as he became), and his wife Sarah are hero and heroine of this latest hymn to grandeur and glory by British Historian A. L. Rowse (The Expansion of Elizabethan England; The English Past). When empires decline and the spirit of reckless adventure ebbs, there are always a few men like Rowse to blow the old trumpet furiously and trot out the glorious dead as an example to the pusillanimous living. "History," says Rowse, "is an extension of life into the past: there are lessons to be learned, and people should learn them...
Composer Persichetti suggests a poem by e. e. cummings as a Christmas hymn. First verse: purer than purest ptire whisper of whisper so, so (big with innocence) forgivingly a once of eager glory, no more miracle may grow...
...presented by its author and its publishers as a novel, but it is more a loose-linked succession of anec dotes and characters. Written with re strained passion and sincere compassion, the book is a sociological blend of feeling and outrage reminiscent of Alan Paton's more powerful hymn to the blacks of South Africa, Cry, the Beloved Country...