Tag: Dramatic Poetry
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Poem: Into the Land of Heroes | Wagner, Das Reingold: Vorspiel
INTO THE LAND OF HEROES AND FRIENDS By Dominique Johnson I rise with you,As you do in me.I am shedding my skins,To unfold youSitting on the throne of the slainLight about your pavilion, Brooding deep with three piercing eyes Whisper at this hour the things your two eyes have seen.I saw the well in a…
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Sergei Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 1 in D Minor Op. 13 – Allegro con fuoco
Symphony No.1 in D minor Op. 13, fourth movement, allegro con fuoco. Conductor: Vladimir Ashkenazy & Concertgebouw Orchestra
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Henryk Gorecki – Symphony No. 3, Op. 36: III. Lento, Cantabile Semplice
So even now though you feel without power, and in shame the world cries, come out from under the rubble and grab hold of it. Though it be unbearable to see the pain, provide the little ones shelter, when the rain comes. Be as Spring to the shadows.
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A Fauns’ Delicacy
Like a faun that plays between the wild forests and the labyrinth. Though, not in sorrow, nor in joy, but in rhythm. The faun can always hear the sweet melodies in the distance that run deeper than through those tall ears. This faun has not forsaken the dirt and the leaves, and the smell of…
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Live Your Fable – The Idealism of Gabriele D’Annunzio in The Epiphany of the Flame
“I cannot understand why the poets of our day wax indignant at the vulgarity of their age and complain of having come into the world too early or too late. I believe that every man of intellect can create his own beautiful fable of life.” GABRIELE D’ANNUNZIO, THE FLAME OF LIFE: THE EPIPHANY OF THE…
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Carl Orff: Tempus es Iocundum and Dulcissime
Dulcissime Dulcissime, Sweetest one! Ah! totam tibi subdo me! I give myself to you totally! tempus est iocundum This is a joyful time Tempus es iocundum, This is the joyful time, o virgines, O maidens, modo congaudete rejoice with them, vos iuvenes. young men! (Baritone) Oh, oh, oh, Oh! Oh! Oh! totus floreo, I am…
The American Minervan 