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...Scriabin, Poem of Ecstacy, Op 54, (Vict) L M 1775-193) Boccherini, Quartet in B minor...
...Dello Joio's 15-minute cantata performed in Kansas City was adapted from Poet John Dryden's famed A Song for St. Cecilia's Day, a poem intended, in Dello Joio's words, as "a big hymn glorifying music in the cosmic sense-the miracle of it all." Sung by the University of Kansas Choir with brass accompaniment, the work often had the rich sonority of a cathedral organ. A simple, stirring work with no sharply dissonant edges, the cantata was marked by the melodic interplay of brasses and voices and by some stunningly lush vocal...
Pasternak insisted that he had given Anthony Brown of the London Daily Mail a batch of poems, all in longhand, to be delivered to a friend, Jacqueline de Proyart, curator of the Tolstoy Museum in Paris. Now he learned that Brown had taken it upon himself to publish in the Daily Mail a poem bearing the title Nobel Prize. The poem, said Pasternak, was written "in a black, pessimistic mood that has now passed." The very fact that Brown had plucked it out from all the others "shows what motivated the young man," the old man went on indignantly. Whether...
Wrathfully, Catherine lectures her bullfighter: "You said the scum of Europe came to us, and perhaps they did, but the strong ones came first . . . well, there's a poem on the Statue of Liberty . . ." And sure enough, she quotes Emma Lazarus ("Give me your tired, your poor'') for five lines. Repentantly the torero discovers the real America: accepting the yanqui dollar, the moral seems to be, does not mean wearing the yanqui collar...
...gloriously!),I.A. Richards, sold his first gleaming set of metrical tools. Designed primarily for processing poetry, this stunning new creation did not supplant the earlier innovation; indeed, Richards' tool set complemented the Eliot invention, and enhanced its production. Now all they need do, the scholars found, was unplug a poem, take up one or other of their finely-honed tools, twist, unscrew, and lay out the various parts of its whole, thereby finding a meaning never before revealed. (In fairness, these scholars took up their tools, put the poem back together, and plugged it in again, so others, also...