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If music and sweet poetry agree
Content not available due to copyright restrictions....(Continue Reading) Sound and fury: Peter Conrad wonders if a new Tempest will conjure music to match Shakespeare's poetry
Any new opera, volunteering to extend the tradition, risks comparison with the classics that precede it. In taking The Tempest as the subject for his ......(Continue Reading)Songs of Whitman: jazz pianist Fred Hersch crowns a lifetime of achievement with Leaves of Grass, an evening-long composition based on the poetry of protoqueer
"I've been dogged by my musical choices," says jazz pianist and composer Fred Hersch. "Yes, I chose to play Billy Strayhorn and Cole Porter, who were ......(Continue Reading)Poetry, Pedagogy, and Popular Music: Renegade Reflections
It's been more than a quarter of a century since I published Beowulf to Beatles: Approaches to Poetry (1972), and two decades since I put together A ......(Continue Reading)The rite of return: Pushkin's poetry, Tolstoy's novels, Stravinsky's music—Russia's golden age gave the people the spirit to endure the darkest moments
In 1962, Stravinsky accepted a Soviet invitation to visit the country of his birth. It was exactly 50 years since he had left Russia and there was a ......(Continue Reading)
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