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Aaron Copland called it Ballet for Martha, as in Martha Graham. But she named it after a Hart Crane poem. Her ballet told the tale of a young marriage blossoming in pioneer-era Pennsylvania. In Copland's music, listeners heard not just an evocation of the Appalachians; they also heard the sound of a nation blossoming. The immediate impact is all the more amazing given the spareness of the composition. Framed by the Shaker folk song Simple Gifts, the music was originally scored for just 13 instruments because of the limited size of the orchestra pit at its opening venue...
...won’t be setting a poem and suddenly run out of e’s,” Vetters says of the change...
Most projects are artistic or literary, such as an advertisement for the queer art show “Beautiful Rebellion,” by Han Yu ’06, or a setting of a Catullus poem Abigail S. Miller...
...press is also holding a competition for illustrations that will accompany a poster containing the poem “The Laglan Blackbird” in various translations, including several by visiting scholar and poet Seamus Heaney, who is affiliated with Adams House...
DoubleTake is clearly a labor of love. After reading the 128 pages following the editors’ note in its premiere issue—which contain personalized narratives ranging from a poem by Seamus Heaney to a photoessay of life in the Chicago barrio to impressionistic short stories—even the most skeptical reader would be moved to appreciate its social conscience. In its variety, consistency and precision of editorial expression, DoubleTake is unique. No word goes unillustrated, and no picture unexplained...