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That his peasant drama succeeds so well lies in the music. Just as there are no heroes, there are no big arias or set-piece scenes. Not that the opera is merely a modified tone poem; it is compellingly dramatic. In style, there may be a bit of Mascagni pageantry here, an arioso there that could have flown right out of Butterfly. But the sound is distinct and modern, punctuated by post-romantic dissonances. Then there are charming interludes peculiar to Janáček. He loved duplicating spoken inflections and rhythms in sung speech. He doted on mini three...
...Parker knowingly handed me the following poem...
Perhaps Bob T. was right in his poem when he called me fortunate above all--I mean in having a mind that can express--no, I mean in having mobilized my being--learned to give it complete outcome,...that I have to some extent forced myself to break every mold and find a fresh from of being, that is of expression, for everything I feel or think. So that it is when it is working I get the sense of being fully energized--nothing stunted...
...Curtin not only catches passes well, he is introspective and intellectual. He's a different kind of football star. He'd just as soon talk about the meter of a poem as the yard on a football field. His copy of Yeats' Collected Poems every bit as important to him as Coach Joe Restic's playbook...
...note about this poem, "Among School Children," Yeats wrote "Topic for poem--School children and the thought that life will waste them perhaps that no possible life can fulfill out dreams or even their teacher's hope." The school children I met and taught and came to admire showed me that they will never fulfill Koch's dreams or hopes. Their imaginations should and can be active all the time in school--not just in one liberated period of time...