Word: odes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...metrical translation of the thirteenth Ode in the second book of Horace, the John Osborne Sargent Prize of $200 went to Gordon M. Messing '38, of Indianapolis, Indiana, and Eliot House...
...clock will come the Sanders Theatre exercises, to which the Seniors will also march in a body. Prayer will be offered by Professor E. C. Moore, and the oration by Daniel Sargent, the poem by Amos Philip McMahon, and the ode by William Roger Burlingame will be delivered...
...spinsterhood, had published a few verses, when in 1891 she got the commission to write a poem for the opening of the World's Columbian Exposition. Opponents wanted to replace her with John Greenleaf Whittier, then 85. Despite illness, an operation, a nervous attack, Harriet Monroe finished her ode in time, demanded and received $1,000 for it, had the satisfaction of hearing it read before an audience of 120,000, its chorus sung by 5,000 voices. Because the New York World published it without permission before the reading, she sued the paper, won $5,000 more...
Like his contemporaries, Richard Strauss and Gustav Mahler (Symphony No. 1), Delius went to Friedrich Nietzsche's ode to the superman,Thus Spake Zarathustra, for inspiration, converted portions of its Biblical German oratory into choruses and vocal solos, illustrated its moods with a surging orchestral undercurrent. His Nietzschean Mass, which requires over an hour and a half to perform, is so perfectly formed and climaxed that the listener's interest never lags-a pretty sure sign, in a pieqe of that size, that a great musical mind has been at work...
...musicians in which the turnover is fast and rehearsals are few, they played the Franck Symphony, and, with Pianist Muriel Kerr, the fourth Beethoven Concerto. More eyes will be turned on them next month when they play the world premiere of Jacob Weinberg's Gettysburg Address, a symphonic ode to the text of Abraham Lincoln's immortal speech...