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Ward earned a Bronze Star for meritorious service in the Aleutian Islands.During his military service Ward managed to compose two serious orchestral compositions, Adagio and Allegro, first performed in New York in 1944, and Jubilation: An Overture, which was written mostly on Okinawa, Japan, in 1945, and was premiered at Carnegie Hall by the National Orchestral Association the following spring.
The Crucible is a 1961 English language opera written by Robert Ward based on the 1953 play The Crucible by Arthur Miller. It won both the 1962 Pulitzer Prize for Music and the New York Music Critics Circle Citation. The libretto was lightly adapted from Miller's text by Bernard Stambler.
The band performs the song at various locations in Columbus, Ohio, with each sampled song's title appearing in line with the composition. [10] On November 7, 2019, "Overture" was featured as the soundtrack of the first trailer for Pixar's animated film Soul. [11] It appeared in further promotion in anticipation of the movie's release in late ...
The Crucible is a 1953 play by the American playwright Arthur Miller. It is a dramatized and partially fictionalized [ 1 ] story of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Province of Massachusetts Bay from 1692 to 1693.
Songs from Liquid Days for voices and ensemble (texts by Paul Simon, Suzanne Vega, David Byrne and Laurie Anderson, 1985) De Cie for four voices (1988) Ignorant Sky, Song (1995, for Suzanne Vega) The Streets of Berlin, Song (1997, for Mick Jagger) Planctus, Song for voice and piano (1997, for Natalie Merchant)
Herbert Chappell's children's cantata The Daniel Jazz, with lyrics by Vachel Lindsay, is a short vocal work suitable for school choirs, consisting of songs about people and events from the Book of Daniel in the Old Testament (which covers the period when the Jews were deported and exiled to Babylon by the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar), and was published by Novello in 1963.
Overture. (Andante con moto in E minor [2] – Allegro in E major and time [3]) (sketched and completed in April 1841) [1] Scherzo. Vivo, in 6 8 time and in C ♯ minor, [4] whose theme is based on that of the overture. [1] It has a trio section in D ♭ major, in contrasting 2 4 time [5] whose material reappears as the coda of the movement. [6 ...
Composed 1826. The overture to Berlioz's first attempt at opera, which was never staged. The overture was first performed in the concert hall of the Paris Conservatoire as part of an all Berlioz concert on 26 May 1828. In his study on the composer, Jacques Barzun describes the work as "a genuine tour de force for a young dramatic musician ...