Word: rainer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Composer Paul Hindemith came on such lines as these from the 15 poems of German Poet Rainer Maria Rilke's The Life of the Virgin Mary (Das Marienleben), he determined to set them to song. But the first performance of Marienleben, 25 years ago, was not, even Hindemith admitted, "a sensational success." Jagged with octave jumps, hard-to-land-on intervals of sevenths and ninths, and grinding dissonances, his high-tensioned 70-minute song cycle was even more difficult to sing than to listen...
...Nobel Prize committee passed over Mark Twain, Ibsen, Hardy, Gorky, Chekhov, Conrad, Henry James, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Arnold Bennett, Willa Gather, Swinburne, George Meredith, Zola, Proust, Joyce, H. G. Wells, D. H. Lawrence, Rainer Maria Rilke. Its greatest oversight: although it was established in 1901, and Tolstoy did not die until 1910, it never gave an award to the greatest novelist of them...
This performance is the first of three chamber music concerts to be given by the club. Phyllis Church of the New England Opera Theatre will be the soloist in "Das Mariculeben" a song setting for poems of Rainer Maria Rilke...
...Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian poet whose work has been translated into more than twenty languages and who is especially well-known in English, is the subject of a current exhibit in the showcase of Widener and Houghton Libraries. The display commemorates the twentieth anniversary of the poet's death...
...Poet Rainer Maria Rilke, who was once Rodin's secretary, described what his boss was after: "Rodin assumed that if caught quickly, the simple movements of the model . . . contain the strength of an expression which is not surmised, because one is not wont to follow it with intense and constant attention. By not permitting his eyes to leave the model for an instant, and by allowing his quick and trained hand free play over the drawing paper, Rodin seized an enormous number of never before observed and hitherto unrecorded gestures of which the radiating force of expression was immense...