Word: prometheus
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...Shelley's Prometheus Unbound classic...
...same time it may be questioned whether contemporaries do not always stand more or less in the relation of valets-de-chambre to the age in which they live, and whether there be not something in nearness which is fatal to the heroic. If Prometheus had a Boswell, would not the vulture have been Niebuhrized into the liver-complaint, and he himself, the thief of fire from heaven, into a palaeozoic Dr. Franklin who amused himself with electrical experiments? The truth is that so long as the nature of man is dual, so long as he is an animal...
...three other composers represented, Goldmark, Wagner and Raff, the first may be said to be the pupil and imitator of the second. The dramatic overture to Goldmark's "Prometheus" shows signs of the master hand of Wagner. It was very graphic and rose again and again to such heights of feeling that one longed to know what it was all about...
...programme for the seventh concert of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Sanders Theatre this evening at 7.45 will be as follows: Overture to "Prometheus" by Goldmark; first movement of a violin concerto by Brahms; "Waldweheu" from Siegfried by Wagner; Symphony "Im Walde" by Raff. The soloist of the evening will be Mr. Franz Kneisel, the first violin of the orchestra...
...Prometheus Fired" treats of the old athletic question in a very new and original manner. Portions of this socalled lost Play of Aeschylus are very clever and well written. The work is, however, very uneven in point of merit. The charge of the Archon Eponymous is by far the brightest and best written scene of the play. The plot lacks continuity and hence fails to some extent in its purpose...