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The two-act musical is an expanded version of the hour-long musical Who's Earnest? televised on The United States Steel Hour in 1957. [1]The 1959-1960 Off-Broadway season included a dozen musicals and revues including Little Mary Sunshine, The Fantasticks (based on an obscure 1894 work by Edmond Rostand, of Cyrano fame), and Ernest in Love, a musicalization of Oscar Wilde's 1895 hit.
Janet Mead (15 August 1937 – 26 January 2022) was an Australian Catholic nun who was best known for recording a pop-rock version of the Lord's Prayer.The surprise hit reached Number 3 on the Australian singles chart (Kent Music Report) in 1974 [1] and Number 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the same year.
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A 2012 concert performance was recorded live at the Barbican by the BBC and released commercially in 2014. [154] In 2017 Odyssey Opera of Boston presented Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco's opera The Importance of Being Earnest as part of a "Wilde Opera Nights" series, a season-long exploration of operatic works inspired by Wilde's writings and world ...
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers is the debut short story collection by Yiyun Li. It is the author's first book of fiction. It is the author's first book of fiction. Two of the stories were adapted into films: the title story and The Princess of Nebraska , both directed by Wayne Wang .
Here on Earth is a 1997 novel by Alice Hoffman. [1] [2] The book was chosen as an Oprah's Book Club selection. The plot of Here on Earth involves a woman named March Murray, who returns with her teenage daughter to the Massachusetts town where she grew up. The story and characters are inspired by the 1847 Emily Brontë novel Wuthering Heights ...
The poem was partially inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Raven", [2] with its depiction of a lover grieving on Earth over the death of his loved one. Rossetti chose to represent the situation in reverse. The poem describes the damozel observing her lover from heaven, and her unfulfilled yearning for their reunion in heaven. The first four ...
"Song for Athene", which has a performance time of about seven minutes, is an elegy consisting of the Hebrew word alleluia ("let us praise the Lord") sung monophonically six times as an introduction to texts excerpted and modified from the funeral service of the Eastern Orthodox Church and from Shakespeare's Hamlet (probably 1599–1601). [4]