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Land's address followed the reading by Robert Penn Warren, professor emeritus at Yale and a noted author and poet, of his most recent poem...
...virtuoso a capella opening song, "Poly Waly," and Lieberman's own version of the Stevie Winwood tune, "Can't find My Way Home." The Lieberman-Kushnick segment of the program began forcefully, and later drifted to the ethereal with "Holes in the Sky," a 32-bar rendition of a poem by Louis NacNiece. The next four songs formed a cycle beginning with the straightforward harmonic piece, "Velvet Sportcoat," followed by "Ode to the Apocalypse" and its fast-paced thematic cousin, "Ark Tangents," whose music dances upon Daniel Dern's surrela lyrics...
...have known the last/And can appraise/Pain past," Warren writes in his poem "History." What that appraisal means for Jed is a denial of his old denials, a desire to pray and to week beside his mother's grave. And now that Jed, beside that grave, has finally found a place to come to, he discovers that he also has a place...
...puppeteer, but he forgets that people are not puppets. Unlike puppets, people get embarrassed, awkward and fidgety. Mime is a very difficult art which requires absolute control and subtlety. So when the actors are asked merely to improvise whatever they want on stage in approximate time to the poem, with little direction, they are often reduced to exaggerated gestures, uncomfortable muggings, and an aimless messy shuffling on stage...
...hers, that have immortalized women written in Latin, English, and French, were recently set to music by Priscilla Chapman '67 who will conduct the work as her own group, the Radcliffe Choral Society, performs them this Sunday night at St. Paul's. Subjects and styles range from an adolescent poem she wrote at 17 on the death of her first husband, to the passionate French sonnets that refute allegations that she killed another husband when she was 37. The set ends with a poem written on the morning before her death, marked by swordedged bitterness and religious faith...