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The play is dedicated to Auden's geologist brother John Bicknell Auden who had taken part in an expedition near the Karakoram mountain K2. [2]The play is widely regarded as an allegory of Auden's own temptation to be a public figure; this interpretation was first offered by R. G. Collingwood in The Principles of Art (1938).
In the play, the poem was put to music by the composer Benjamin Britten and read as a blues work. [2] Hedli Anderson, an English singer, was a lead performer in The Ascent of F6. [2] Auden decided to re-write several poems for Anderson to perform as cabaret songs, including "Funeral Blues", and was working on them as early as 1937. [3]
This play included the first version of "Funeral Blues" ("Stop all the clocks"), written as a satiric eulogy for a politician; Auden later rewrote the poem as a "Cabaret Song" about lost love (written to be sung by the soprano Hedli Anderson, for whom he wrote many lyrics in the 1930s). [63]
This is a bibliography of books, plays, films, and libretti written, edited, or translated by the Anglo-American poet W. H. Auden (1907–1973). See the main entry for a list of biographical and critical studies and external links.
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[2] R.A.F. 1935 John Betts "Ride of the Valkyries" [5] Triumph of the Will: 1935 Leni Riefenstahl: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, "Wach' auf" chorus, (act 3, scene 5) [6] The Right to Live: 1935 William Keighley: Tristan und Isolde [2] The Lion Man: 1936 John P. McCarthy "Ride of the Valkyries" [2] One Hundred Men and a Girl: 1937 Henry Koster
Thomas A. Dorsey was born in Villa Rica, Georgia, the first of three children to Thomas Madison Dorsey, a minister and farmer, and Etta Plant Spencer.The Dorseys sharecropped on a small farm, while the elder Dorsey, a graduate of Atlanta Bible College (now Morehouse College), traveled to nearby churches to preach.
Rónán Ó Snodaigh from Kíla, who co-wrote the song Friends with Mic and shared a flat with him in the years before his death, wrote the song "The dream I haven't shown her" on his album The Playdays for Mic, it is a medley of the W.H. Auden poem; Funeral Blues and a song written by Mic Christopher Embrace the Day.