Word: odes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Collection, consisting of manuscripts of 35 works commissioned by Koussevitzky since 1942. Among them: Benjamin Britten's opera, Peter Grimes, Bela Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra, Darius Milhaud's Symphony No. 2, Aaron Copland's Symphony No. 3, Arnold Schoenberg's Survivor from Warsaw, Ode, by Igor Stravinsky, Marc Blitzstein's opera, Regina, which last week closed a Broadway run of 56 performances...
...after irate citizens had banished from exhibition a plaster cast of the Discobolus, famed Roman copy of a Myron statue, because the discus thrower was nude, Novelist Samuel (The Way of All Flesh) Butler wrote a satirical ode to the city...
...Symphony (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). A radio first: Vladimir Dukelsky's Ode to the Milky...
...Class Ode was recited by George Bluestone, Odiel, and sung by Milton S. Heath Jr., Chorister...
Ralph Waldo Emerson was Class Poet in 1821, and, according to a contemporary report, his efforts were considerably "above expectation." The Chorister appeared unofficially around 1825, to lead the Class in singing the official Ode, and other innovations, some of which stuck and some of which didn't crept in during the later stages of the century...