Word: poem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Russia" has been announced as the subject for the Lloyd McKim Garrison Prize Competition, a prize which is offered for the "best poem on a subject or subjects annually to be chosen and announced by a Committee of the Department of English", and $125, the competition being-open to undergraduates of the College only. The poems should bear an assumed name and should be accompanied by a letter containing the writer's true name...
...February 9, March 9, March 23, April 6 and April 21. 1. Symphony No. 3 in F major. Opus 90. Hrahma Allegro con brio. Andante. Poco Allegretto Allegro. 2. Incidental music to "Roesmnnde" 3. "La Procession", Franck 4. "Aria", "Let the Bright Seraphim" from "Samson", Handel 5. Tone Poem, "Don Juan" (after Nicolaus Lerahu), Straues
...Rogers' poem called a "Ballad of Errant Vespers" is not only pleasantly free from the fads of current writing, but it seems to the reviewer to possess genuine literary quality in a higher degree than anything else that these pages have to offer. The conception is original and imaginative, the movement direct and easy; rhythm, language, and sound are adroitly suited to the ideas. Above all, the verses are distinguished by that rare and precious characteristic, spontaneity...
...Sadko", composed by Rimsky Korsakow in 1867, has been called the first Russian symphonic poem. It was the germ from which the opera of the same name sprang in 1896. Korsakow re-orchestrated the tone-poem in 1891, the new version of which is always played. How it recalled the unforgettable Diaghileff Ballet Russe, and the gorgeous Bakst settings and costumes! Korsakow is always remarkably effective with the orchestra, no matter if at times he sounds banal on the pianoforte. The combination of the barbaric splendor or Russian folk-music and oriental sensuousness never fails to charm; his orchestration will...
...fresh the Mendelssohn symphony sounded! Perhaps the harmonic scheme appears rather evident to some. The work was composed eighty-eight years ago. Many question the title of "Italian" symphony because the first three movements do not suggest Italy in any way. Mendelssohn was not writing a tone-poem. What exquisite light passages for strings it contains, and what a wealth of thematic material so skillfully developed...