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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]
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).
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.
He became a Poetry Star, part of an elite performance team of ten girls. The school’s grade eventually improved from a D to a B. Moses was one of the lucky ones and went onto graduate from high ...
The following is a partial list of performance poets This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
[3] [2] Actor Marian Seldes recorded a spoken word album of the poems; [3] composers Ivor R. Davies [4] and Frieder Meschwitz [5] set them to music. A second volume of similar poems was published in 1965, entitled The Creatures Choir, also translated by Godden. [3] She spent her childhood in the province of Bordeaux, France. She had five ...
Carter, also 16, said choir has given her a place to overcome her stage fright and build her confidence. She grew up surrounded by music in her family and at her church.
"Music, When Soft Voices Die" is a major poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley, written in 1821 and first published in Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1824 in London by John and Henry L. Hunt with a preface by Mary Shelley. [1] The poem is one of the most anthologised, influential, and well-known of Shelley's works. [2] [3]