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The Music of <i>Ben-Hur</i>  Abstract: This paper surveys musical compositions inspired by. Lew Wallace's Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1880) and composed between .... pieces in the 1887 Arthur P. Schmidt publication of Chadwick's 15 Songs for Soprano or Tenor, the .... best-selling novel in the United States, that he set the lyrics from Iras'. Egyptian...
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Production of Ben-Hur (1959 film) - Wikipedia  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) originally announced a remake of the 1925 silent film Ben-Hur in ... Lew Wallace's 1880 novel, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, ran to about 550 .... Vidal claimed that Wyler had not read the script, and that when he did so (at ..... Each man had an assistant director, who shot additional footage.
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Next story Getting It Right the Second Time: Adapting Ben-Hur for ...  Jun 4, 2014 ... Wallace's book may well be the most lucrative piece of property ever ... And Judah Ben-Hur's drive for vengeance is more implacable than as written for either film. ... In the final chapters, the God of Love instantly transforms Judah; he drops ... Esther, that nice Jewish girl, is here, of course, but in addition we...
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Composers Flashcards | Quizlet  Charles-Marie Widor worked with his pupil Albert Schweitzer on an edition of .... to marches, he composed an orchestral piece inspired by the novel "Ben-Hur".
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Sousa, John Philip - StevenEstrella.com  Suites for Orchestra: The Chariot Race (on the story of Ben Hur by Wallace) ... In addition to composing nearly 100 marches, he composed about 70 songs,...
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Chapter 16: The Late Eighteenth Century: Haydn and Mozart ...  82-87, called his Paris symphonies) and the twelve he wrote for the concert promoter Johann Peter Salomon in London (Nos. 93-104, called the London symphonies). ... The Creation (1798) and The Seasons (1801), the former being one of his most famous works. .... Includes a number of paintings of Mozart and his family.
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Edward Elgar - an overview of the classical composer and his music  First impressions of Sir Edward Elgar are that he looks like a quintessential ... "Pomp and Circumstance" which Elgar uses for his set of patriotic marches, ... (In London Town), & In the South (Alassio); 5 Pomp and Circumstance Marches - No. ... of Gerontius" the most famous, plus "The Apostles" and "The Kingdom" which...
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Ben-Hur - Project Gutenberg Australia  Ben-Hur, by Lew Wallace, free ebook. ... doves, and to the priest I gave your name, which he wrote in my presence'Judah, son of Ithamar, of the House of Hur.
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Historical Novels of Lew Wallace: Ben-Hur, The Fair God & The ...  Historical Novels of Lew Wallace: Ben-Hur, The Fair God & The Prince of India ... Conquistadors & The Fall of Constantinople - Kindle edition by Lew Wallace, ... is a magnificent tale of the conflict between the Spanish Conquistadors and the Aztecs. ... He wrote several historical novels and biographies of American generals.
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The Planets - Wikipedia  The Planets, Op. 32, is a seven-movement orchestral suite by the English composer Gustav Holst, written between 1914 and 1916. Each movement of the suite is named after a planet of the Solar System and its corresponding ... emotions associated with the influence of the planets on the psyche, not the Roman deities.
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Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ - General Lew Wallace Study & Museum  Lew Wallace wrote Ben-Hur in Crawfordsville, Indiana, and finished it in Santa Fe, ... That dramatization was followed by the motion picture productions in 1907, 1925, 1959, and 2016. ... The novel has never been out of print since its first printing in 1880. ... Furthermore they argued that the film cut into the profits of the stage...
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'Scheherazade,' 1001 Nights Retold in a Symphony : NPR  May 12, 2007 ... These Tales of the Arabian Nights inspired Russian composer Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov to compose a symphonic suite called Scheherazade in 1888. ... Bernstein raised his hands up and asked, "Do I have to tell you the story...
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Concerts for Kids - San Francisco Symphony  Sep 29, 2014 ... Rimsky-Korsakov/Flight of the Bumblebee ... Prokofiev/The Procession to the Zoo from Peter and the Wolf ... study guide cover 1415_study guide 1415 9/29/14 11:41 AM Page 2 .... The Family of Music: Composer, Conductor, Musician, and Audience . ..... Cabrera made his San Francisco Symphony debut in...
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Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace  Reviews ...  Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1880) by Lew Wallace is one of the most popular .... He has a mother and a sister who love him, and he's friends with a Roman, and that .... Francesco Zampa I think Wallace wrote the book in the language of his time. ...... A man is never so on trial as in the moment of excessive good fortune.
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Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ - Wikipedia  Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ is a novel by Lew Wallace published by Harper & Brothers on ... Ben-Hur is a story of a fictional hero named Judah Ben-Hur, a Jewish ... Readers meet the fictional character of Judah for the first time in book two, when his ..... Wallace cited one inspiration for Ben-Hur, recounting his life-changing...
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Rimsky-Korsakov Lets the Symphony Tell the Story : NPR  May 12, 2007 ... Rimsky-Korsakov spins the tale in music. ... She marries the Sultan in order to save all future young women from this fate. ... Rimsky-Korsakov wrote Scheherazade (a symphonic suite) in the summer of 1888. ... This movement is called "The Tale of the Kalender Prince," and Rimsky-Korsakov uses exotic,...
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Classical music: There is more to graduation and commencement ...  May 20, 2012 ... Other universities, colleges and all kinds of schools all around the country ... and friends will hear the familiar strains of Sir Edward Elgar's Pomp and ... and the Cello Concerto, his other two most popular works performed in concert halls. ... a Madison native and graduate of West High School and the UW...
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The Project Gutenberg eBook of Unicorns, by James Huneker.  Has not the Book of Job put this question: "Canst thou bind the Unicorn with his band in the ..... The words seemed to hamper the bold wing strokes of his inspiration. ... He spoke vaguely to me of studies for new symphonic works, presumably in the ...... In his admirable Chopin the Composer, Edgar Stillman Kelley considers...
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Hebrides Overture | Mendelssohn | The Hebrides | Scottish Overture  So wrote Felix Mendelssohn in Tobermory on the Isle of Mull on Friday 7 ... Karl Klingemann after a week traveling from Edinburgh through the Scottish ... It was not until 8 August that the two companions set out from Tobermory to visit the Isle of ... his inspiration from the many lonely isles which he will have sailed past on...
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Ron (Glen Allen, VA)'s review of Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ  Sep 3, 2016 ... Like some modern novels, Ben-Hur weaves a new tale into the periphery ... Wallace had not yet visited the Holy Land when he wrote the novel...
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At the Boar's Head - Wikipedia  At the Boar's Head is an opera in one act by the English composer Gustav Holst, his op. 42. Holst himself described the work as "A Musical Interlude in One Act". The libretto, by the composer himself, is based on Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1 and Henry IV, ... He then decided to set a number of those melodies to a story assembled...