Word: poeme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...novelty in the Boston Symphony Orchestra's 22nd concert of its regular series was Ernest Schelling's tone-poem A Victory Ball. A peculiar enthusiasm for this work seems to have seized conductors this season. Pierre Monteux was one of the last to succumb. The Schelling opus is an interesting experiment, but scarcely a heaven-storming masterpiece. Based on a poem* by Alfred Noyes, which first appeared in the Saturday Evening Post, it tells, in music, the tale of the return to earth of the spirits of soldiers slain in the late War. Instead of the solemn masses, purity, virtue...
...Smith's poem follows...
...Samauel Wesley Stratton L. D. '23, president of M. I. T., will deliver the oration, and Professor emeritus Francis Greenwood Peabody '69 of the University will deliver the poem at the Phi Beta Kappa exercises in Commencement week, according to an announcement made last night by Professor W. G. Howard '91, Secretary of the Society. The exercises will be held on Friday morning, the day after Commencement...
...Neill has dramatized Coleridge's Ancient Mariner without making it any less a tribute to "dat old Davil sea." Following the simple process of eliminating a few lines from the poem, he does not add a single phrase of his own except in the stage directions which-with the help of some lights-transform the poem into a drama. Following these directions, the Mariner mouths his anguished story at the Wedding Guest he has stopped; while the ghosts of the crew that died for his misdeed act as a muffled, mummified chorus...
...poem gives this legend in simple and unimpressive language. Somehow the note or afterword following the piece is far more interesting and sound than the poem itself. This gives the origin and what history is known concerning the legend. Taken all in all the poem is rather unconvincing but the interest in the legend is enough to make the work worth reading...