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[9] Blackbird similarly said that "Hopler’s work has always been marked by self-deprecating humor—a lamentation of a tortured existence and a resentment for having been born at all—and this characteristic pinnacles in Still Life." [10] Poetry International Online said "The book seems to be both a representation of all the moving parts of ...
Carol Boggess: James Still : a life, Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky 2017, 2017, ISBN 978-0-8131-7418-1; Appalachian Heritage, Fall 2010 issue, in which Still is the featured author; a number of articles discuss his life and work, and previously unpublished prose and poetry by Still is presented. Crum, Claude Lafie. (2007).
Pages in category "Symphonic poems by William Grant Still" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
A description of the symphonic poem is as follows: [The work is] short and poetic ... It was written to express musically [Still's] inner reactions to the peaceful, shimmering, misty sunlight on the blue grass of Kentucky. It is a subjective not an objective picture ... Kaintuck' is built chiefly on two themes: everything else grows out of them ...
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William Grant Still in 1949, photographed by Carl Van Vechten. Darker America is a 1924 symphonic poem by American composer William Grant Still. [1] The composition, exploring themes of sorrow, hope, and prayer, is a work derived from Still's studies with the modernist composer Edgard Varèse. In the work, Still uses "melodic types found in ...
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William Grant Still in 1949, photographed by Carl Van Vechten. Africa is a 1930 symphonic poem in three movements by American composer William Grant Still. [1] The work, originally scored for chamber orchestra, was first performed in 1930 by French flautist Georges Barrère and, in a full orchestra version, by Howard Hanson on October 24, 1930, at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New ...