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1934, Branches Green, poetry (including "Something Told the Wild Geese" [15]) 1934, Susanna B And William C, fiction; 1934, God's Pocket, historical non-fiction; 1935, Time Out Of Mind, fiction; 1936, Fear Is the Thorn, poetry; 1936, First Class Matter: A Comedy in One Act, drama; 1937, To See Ourselves, by Field and her husband Arthur Pederson ...
Jessica Nápoles's Critical Thinking in the Choral Rehearsal: An Initial Study of Approaches to Teacher Training used Lightfoot's "Something Told the Wild Geese" as a model piece in her choral teacher training study. [12] Lightfoot's works have also been analyzed in numerous choral reviews.
The date of creation of the lyrics are unknown. The inspiration for the poem is described in his memoirs The Wanderer Between Two Worlds: . I was lying as a war volunteer on the forest clearing plowed by grenades as I was a hundred nights before as a listening post and stared into the flickering light of the stormy night which was criss-crossed by the restless spotlights on German and French ...
The tranquil and serene piece depicts the scene of wild geese flying and alighting by the water. The Qing dynasty Guqin Notation of Heavenly Sound Pavilion had an introduction: "Set against the clear autumn sky, the air is crisp and fresh, while the breeze remains calm, as does the sandbank by the water. Amidst clouds stretching for miles, wild ...
Reid's song "The Wild Geese" (also known as "Norland Wind") from his debut album, in which he put music to Violet Jacob's 1915 poem, has been performed and recorded by many other artists, including Battlefield Band, Malinky, Frightened Rabbit with Lau and Jim Malcolm.
The Wild Geese is a 1978 war film starring an ensemble cast led by Richard Burton, Roger Moore, Richard Harris and Hardy Krüger.The film, which was directed by Andrew V. McLaglen, was the result of a long-held ambition of producer Euan Lloyd to make an all-star adventure film in the vein of The Guns of Navarone or Where Eagles Dare.
A witness told an officer ahead of Comer’s citation that he saw a “white male, in his late fifties or early sixties” riding a lawnmower before getting off and shooting two geese with a ...
The Wild Geese, a conversation between the author and the North Wind, is a melancholic poem on the theme of homesickness. It was set to music as Norlan' Wind and popularised by Angus singer and songmaker Jim Reid , [ 9 ] who also set to music other poems by Jacob and those other Angus poets such as Marion Angus and Helen Cruikshank. [ 10 ]