Word: poeme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Golden Spinning Wheel, Symphonic Variations (London Symphony Orchestra, Istvan Kertesz conductor; London, $5.98). Mention the words "tone poem" and the average post-Romantic music buff will think of Franz (Mazeppa) Liszt or Richard (Don Juan) Strauss, but rarely of Dvorak. A pity, since Dvorak, too, was a master of the genre. His subjects varied from The Watersprite to The Midday Witch, but he was never more magical than in The Golden Spinning Wheel. Recounting the fairy tale of a lovely spinning girl who pays somewhat gruesomely for a king's love, Dvorak filled his 26-minute score with bold...
...would have taken a gale to move the heavy banner. "What Key probably saw was a flag wrapped soggily around a pole." Concludes Filby: "Key didn't come running ashore crying 'Chaps, I've just produced the national anthem.' " He fitted his new poem to the tune of an English drinking song because he had used the same tune nine years earlier, a piece that expressed a now familiar vision: "By the light of the star-spangled flag of our nation...
...Better come here and study these feet..." from Alabama Poem by Nikki Giovanni...
...poem by Lincoln Kirstein
Hannah moves through her marriage and her life with the scornful arrogance of an unpublished poet who has not gone to the trouble of actually writing a poem. Her habitual comment on her husband's remarks is, "That's trite." She takes no pleasure in his success, feels remote from her young son and declares herself as bored with her own hard-working contemporaries as she is with the older generation's memories...