Word: poem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...married one of his pupils, Elsa Olivieri Sangiacomo, a quiet, mysterious person, part Aztec. She used to compose too, but now she just sings his songs, uses her Indian intuition to help order his career. Their villa high on the outskirts of Rome is named for the second Roman poem - "The Pines...
...orchestras alone have given it 154 performances, the Fountains, 71 performances, Roman Festivals (third poem in the cycle) 45 performances. Royalties in such cases mount up. Respighi, Stravinsky and the later works of Richard Strauss are expensive to perform. The Philharmonic has to pay $40 each time it plays any one of the Roman poems. (For the privilege of Maria Egiziaca's première, the Philharmonic paid $500.) If the performance is broadcast, Columbia Broadcasting has to pay nearly as much again...
...Table Round", by C. B. Millican is the eighth volume in Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature Queen Elizabeth and all the Tudors were so much interested in their Welsh descent, and all that it implied, that it was almost inevitable for Spenser to use the Arthurian legend in a poem which glorified his sovereign on the basis of national legend. During her reign Arthurian interests were abundant, and those interests were abundant, and those interested in the backgrounds and sources of English poetry will find little-known treasures of British folk-lore and myth...
...appeal to the students. Women appear who think they have a claim against every one. When the claim against every one. When the Bureau found no merit in the case of a woman sueding for an infringement of copyright, the woman tried to sue the Bureau for stealing a poem of her's entitled "Come, Across, Come, Come." Another case of a clergyman who imagined he had been imprisoned in an asylum because he was going to write a book condemning a higher ecclesiastic also reached the Bureau...
...Bach's "Concerto in D Major for Orchestra." The Orchestra will play the Maximillian Steinberg arrangement of this number. "Suite Number 1 from the Ballet 'Pulcinella' for Small Orchestra" (after Pergolesi) by Stravinsky will follow. "Two Nocturnes" by Debussy, novel selection will be the next offering. Sowerby's "Praivie," Poem for Orchestra will follow. The program will conclude with "Till Eulensptegel's Merry Prauks, after the Old Fashioned Rognish Mauner" in Rondo form, Cp. 28, by Strauss...