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Muse of Fire is a science fiction novella by Dan Simmons. It is about a group of Shakespearean actors, the "Earth's Men", in the far future where humans are a minor conquered species, spread across the stars in subservient roles. The narrator, one of the actors, suspects the alien masters of the galaxy are deciding the fate of humanity based on ...
Darryl Kubian (born February 19, 1966) is an American composer, thereminist, violinist, and audio/video engineer.His compositions have been commissioned and performed by North American orchestras, such as the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra and Omaha Symphony, and he has written soundtrack scores for the Wildlife Conservation Society, National Geographic, Discovery Channel, Pangolin Pictures ...
O For a Muse of Fire is a symphonic overture for full orchestra and vocal soloist, written by Darryl Kubian. The work is 12 minutes long, and was premiered by the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra in March 2015. [28] [29] The work is scored for full orchestra, with vocal soloist. The vocal part incorporates selected lines from the text, and the ...
Terera is also a filmmaker and musician. His first documentary, Muse of Fire, created with Dan Poole, centres on modern perspectives of Shakespeare, featuring interviews with actors and filmmakers such as Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Jude Law, Julie Taymor, Fiona Shaw and Baz Luhrmann. The film premiered in autumn 2013 on BBC Four. [6]
Besides Homer and Virgil, other famous works that included an invocation of the Muse are the first of the carmina by Catullus, Ovid's Metamorphoses and Amores, Dante's Inferno (Canto II), Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde (Book II), Shakespeare's Henry V (Act 1, Prologue), his 38th sonnet, and Milton's Paradise Lost (openings of Books 1 and 7).
for the play by William Shakespeare: Incidental music: 1959: March for "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples" composed for a projected ABC film series based on Winston Churchill's A History of the English-Speaking Peoples: Incidental music: 1962: Granada Prelude, Call Signs and End Music: for Granada Television broadcasts Incidental music ...
In March 2015, Fahl performed as the vocal soloist in the premiere performances of the symphonic overture O For a Muse of Fire by American composer Darryl Kubian. [36] The work was commissioned by the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, and is based on the play Henry V by William Shakespeare. Kubian composed the piece with Fahl's voice in mind, and ...
In 2018, he released a video documentary on Sir Philip Sidney: Shakespeare’s Muse of Fire: Sir Philip Sidney. [6] Previously he produced a series of on-line teaching videos titled First Lines: A Project in Global Diversity, that highlights the range of world literature. [7]