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"Begin the Beguine" is a popular song written by Cole Porter. Porter composed the song during a 1935 Pacific cruise aboard the Cunard ocean liner Franconia from Kalabahi, Indonesia, to Fiji. [4] In October 1935, it was introduced by June Knight in the Broadway musical Jubilee, produced at the Imperial Theatre in New York City. [5]
Friday Afternoons is a collection of twelve song settings by Benjamin Britten, composed 1933–35 for the pupils of Clive House School, Prestatyn, Wales where his brother, Robert, was headmaster. [1] Two of the songs, "Cuckoo" and "Old Abram Brown", were featured in the film Moonrise Kingdom . [ 2 ] "
The song also became the unofficial anthem of Major League Baseball's Montreal Expos (since relocated to become the Washington Nationals). [15] [16] "The Happy Wanderer" was selected as the winner of Trinidad's 1955 Road March title, awarded to the song which was most played by steelbands during that year's Trinidad and Tobago Carnival season. [17]
The poem is used by: Ernest Hemingway in his novel A Farewell to Arms (1929). George Orwell in ch. 21 of his novel Burmese Days (1934). Virginia Woolf in her novel The Waves (1931). Wilbur Daniel Steele in his short story How Beautiful with Shoes. Madeleine L'Engle in her novel The Small Rain (1945). Louis Zukofsky includes the poem in A Test ...
Sieben Abgesänge auf eine tote Linde (Seven Poems from a Dead Linde Tree) for soprano, clarinet, violin and piano (1997) String Quartet No. 1 (1997) [6] [7] Five Fragments for clarinet and piano (1997) [8] [9] Duell (Duel) for trombone and electric guitar (1998) Nachtstück (Nightpiece) for piano, clarinet and cello (1998) [10]
The Song of Wandering Aengus" is a poem by Irish poet W. B. Yeats. It was first printed in 1897 in British magazine The Sketch under the title "A Mad Song." [ 1 ] It was then published under its standard name in Yeats' 1899 anthology The Wind Among the Reeds . [ 1 ]
"The Wanderer" is a song written by Ernie Maresca and originally recorded by Dion, released on his 1961 album, Runaround Sue. The song, with a 12-bar blues-base verse and an eight-bar bridge, tells the story of a travelling man and his many loves. The song is ranked number 243 on the Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of ...
The Wanderer Fantasy is actually based on a song of Schubert's, which sets a text by Georg Phillip Schmidt. Here's a German text of the poem with English translation: while they share a kind of elegiac generality in that their wanderers are far from, and uncertain of, their homelands, they're not otherwise related.