Word: theocritus
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...record subscriptions have been sold, partly because of shoestring promotion. But Louisville still has i) an orchestra that has learned to read modern scores better than any other in the U.S., and 2) a fat bag of new music, some of it masterly, e.g., Roger Sessions' Idyll of Theocritus, Elliott Carter's Variations for Orchestra...
...played at Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music next month; 4) a symphony, his third, which the Boston Symphony Orchestra expects to play in March. The Louisville Orchestra, under Robert Whitney, premiered the cantata-really a solo aria the size of a full-grown concerto. Titled Idyll of Theocritus, it was even more imposing than previous jam Sessions...
...text is the second Idyll, one of literature's great love poems, by 3rd century B.C. Greek Poet Theocritus. The piece divides into four moods, as the forsaken girl Simaitha gathers magic spells, then tells the moon goddess how she met her lover, goes on to tell how she became his mistress, and finally explains his desertion and her determination to win him back. Sessions scarcely lets the soprano come up for air. At Louisville, Oklahoma-born Singer Audrey Nossaman needed all her excellent technique-and her strength -for some 40 minutes of music...
...getting played in spite of this attitude: his lurid suite from The Black Maskers was performed this season by the Boston Symphony and is scheduled to be played at Tanglewood, where he will teach composition this summer. He also has four recent commissions: a solo cantata, The Idyll of Theocritus (Louisville Orchestra); Symphony No. 3 (Boston Symphony); a Piano Concerto (Juilliard School) and an Anglican Mass (for Kent School...
...poets who helped form the idiom spoke with classical tongues. He read Theocritus and Vergil, Horace and Catullus. (In any possible hereafter, says Frost, he would like most to dine with Theocritus). Keats and Shelley were uncongenially flowery. He learned the dramatic lyric from Browning, decided that what he wanted was "the speaking tone of voice somehow entangled in the words." He set himself such exercises...