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  2. Lux Aurumque - Wikipedia

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    Lux Aurumque ("Light and Gold", sometimes "Light of Gold") is a choral composition in one movement by Eric Whitacre.It is a Christmas piece based on a Latin poem of the same name, which translates as "Light, warm and heavy as pure gold, and the angels sing softly to the new born babe". [1]

  3. Choral poetry - Wikipedia

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    His choral poetry was known only through quotations by other Greek authors until 1855, when a discovery of a papyrus was found in a tomb at the Saqqara ancient burial ground in Egypt. This papyrus, now displayed at the Louvre in Paris, held the fragment with approximately 100 verses of his Partheneion (a poem sung by a chorus of adolescent girls).

  4. Center of excellence - Wikipedia

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    The Auburn Performing Arts Center, Julie and Hal Moore Center for Excellence at Auburn High School (Alabama) is focused on performing arts.. A center of excellence (COE or CoE), also called an excellence center, is a team, a shared facility or an entity that provides leadership, best practices, research, support, or training for a focus area.

  5. Harvard grad's spoken word speech is inspiring millions - AOL

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    In the poem, Livingston speaks of the history of injustice in the education system and how future educators can help students overcome. "Wake up every child so they know of their celestial ...

  6. Jazz Chants - Wikipedia

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    So Jazz Chants is the technique to practice the English utterances in short jazz beats that is easy to be followed by the students. As we know that the teaching and learning process is a complex phenomenon that involves many components and competencies, including words, mind, and our action.

  7. Spoken word - Wikipedia

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    The hearing knowledge we bring to a line of poetry is a knowledge of a pattern of speech we have known since we were infants". [9] Performance poetry, which is kindred to performance art, is explicitly written to be performed aloud [10] and consciously shuns the written form. [11] "

  8. Performance poetry - Wikipedia

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    Performance poetry is not solely a postmodern phenomenon. It began with the performance of oral poems in pre-literate societies. By definition, these poems were transmitted orally from performer to performer and were constructed using devices such as repetition, alliteration, rhyme and kennings to facilitate memorization and recall.

  9. An Oxford Elegy - Wikipedia

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    It uses portions of two poems by Matthew Arnold, "The Scholar Gipsy" and "Thyrsis". The first performance took place privately, whilst the public premiere took place in Oxford in June 1952, with Steuart Wilson as the speaker and Bernard Rose conductor. All his life, Vaughan Williams wanted to create an opera from Arnold's Scholar Gipsy.