Word: poeme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Poem. Judged worthy of the attention of the members of the Literary Guild this month, the poem, 4,000 lines long, begins and ends with small Isolt of Brittany, whose hands are made to seem more fabulously white than ever set off against the shadowed course of events at a frowning castle across the channel in Cornwall. There Tristram, "orgulous and full of fate," is discovered lamenting the irony of the wedding he has blindly arranged for his gaunt-armed Uncle Mark, a "man-shaped goat" with a salacious eye. Having awakened late to its meaning for him, Tristram...
...then, often, the simple words are tortured and strained deviously to sustain ecstasy, in bodiless comparative discussions of ecstasy itself. Then the lines ache like tendons not strong enough to keep a soaring hawk aloft, needing a gust of action, a wingbeat of refreshed emotion to lift the poem again...
Among the authors and works represented in the Memorial Room collection are manuscript and proof corrections by Tennyson of his "The Charge of the Heavy Brigade at Balaclava." a less well known companion poem to "The Charge of the Light Brigade...
Overture to "The Merry Wives of Windsor" Nicolai Lyric Suite Grieg Shepherd Boy--Nocturne--March of the Gnomes "Benvenuto Cellini," Overture Berlioz "Don Juan," Symphonic Poem Strauss "Der Rosenkavalier," Waltzes Strauss "Dance of Salome" from "Salome" Strauss A Comedy Overture on Negro Themes Gilbert Molly on the Shore Grainger Bacchanale from "Samson and Delilah" Saint-Saens
...will be offered. Overture to "Haensel und Gretel" Humperdinck "The Damanation of Faust," three excerpts Berlioz The Harvard Glee Club, Dr. Davison, conductor Give a Rouse Bantock Hark All Ye Lovely Saints Wellkes Four Choruses from "Patience" Sullivan A Midsummer Night's Dream, suite Mendelssohn "Fountains of Rome," Symphonic Poem Respighi The Harvard Glee Club Glorious Apollo Webbe Two English Folk Songs Ar. by Williams and Holst The Hundred Pipers Scotch Folk Song Finale, from "Die Meistersinger" Wagner Bacchanale from "Tannahaeuser" Wagner Prelude to "Lohengrin" Wagner Introduction to Act III, "Lohengrin" Wagner