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Thirteen Ways, by Thomas Albert; [9] "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird", by James Tenney "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" (1979), by Louise Talma for tenor/soprano voice, oboe/flute, and piano; [10] "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird", by Jeff Davis, for mixed chorus, solo 'cello, and percussion quartet. "Thirteen Other ...
His best-known composition is Thirteen Ways, commissioned by eighth blackbird. The piece was inspired by Wallace Stevens’ poem, "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird", from which the ensemble derived its name, [2] It is the title work of eighth blackbird’s first commercial recording, Thirteen Ways (Cedille Records).
Modelled upon Wallace Stevens' "Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird," it deals with twelve aspects of Canadian life both past and present and urban and rural. Most of these hokku are quite flat but in one or two she manages to make the images work.
Wallace Stevens (October 2, 1879 – August 2, 1955) was an American modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, educated at Harvard and then New York Law School, and spent most of his life working as an executive for an insurance company in Hartford, Connecticut.
800-290-4726 more ways to reach us. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. ... Dave Grohl gave a special performance of "Blackbird" during the 88th Academy Awards' in memoriam tribute on Sunday evening.
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Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird, song (words Wallace Stevens) (1948) Letters from Morocco, for tenor and small orchestra (words Paul Bowles) (1952) Sonata for Harp (1952) Sinfonia da Pacifica (1952–1953) [18] The Transposed Heads. A Legend of India, opera after the novel Die vertauschten Köpfe by Thomas Mann (1953)
Matthew Josephson ranked Stevens among the best of contemporary poets, writing in 1923 that Stevens exhibits both a poetry of sensuousness and a metaphysical poetry. He favors the latter, as in "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" and "Anecdote of the Jar", predicting that they will be "spell-binding for hundreds of years". [15]