Word: memoriam
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...grew up she became absorbed in the literature that surrounded her, virtually to the exclusion of everything that lay beyond. One thinks of her in her childhood as she portrays herself in one letter--sitting alone in the corner at a dance, reading Tennyson's In Memoriam. She exclaims, "I would give all my profound Greek to dance really well...
Platonic Passions. Her sense of vocation seemed to compensate for her lack of social and sexual ease. "I went to a dance last night," she wrote at 23, "and found a dim corner where I sat and read In Memoriam. You see I am not successful." It was only in the rarefied atmosphere of Bloomsbury that her formidable mind and odd beauty were appreciated. Men like Clive Bell, Lytton Strachey and Roger Fry accepted her, flirted with her, and in some cases proposed. At one point she and the homosexual Strachey became engaged, but both came to realize their folly...
Symphony in E-minor ("The Irish") Overture "Di Ballo" EMI-Odeon, ASD, 2435, stereo conductor: Charles Groves ensemble: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra Incidental Music to "The Tempest" and "The Merchant of Venice" Overture "In Memoriam" EMI-Odeon, CSD 3713, stereo conductor: Sir Vivian Dunn ensemble: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra...
...situation is quite different with the Tempest and Merchant of Venice incidental music and the In Memoriam overture. In Memoriam is a masterpiece and a monument to the best aspects of Victorian music. Written the same year as the Symphony and dedicated to his recently-deceased father, it builds from a quiet start through a restless central section for strings. The climax at the end is spectacular: the large orchestra (augmented by two extra horns and ophicleide) is joined by the organ. To see the Royal Albert Hall in London and the organ there is to know where In Memoriam...
Long, stealing cat shadows follow her down the city blocks. A corner. This is where that music, that noise, jangling polyrhythms had first assaulted and enveloped her. She is destroyed inside the memory, and chokes; quickly, a moment of pain in memoriam. Then she walks...