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ISBN 9781491111253. UPC: 680160643226. Octavo inches. Text: Archibald R. Ammons. Archibald Ammons. Text by A.R. Ammons.
To benefit Chorus America, Stucky allowed himself to be auctioned off as a prize - the high bidder would receive a new work from the composer. After a few years and not really hearing anything, Stucky suddenly found himself up against a deadline. He reached back to a favorite poem by A.R. Ammons, Eyesight, which, he says, Won't let...his reader rest till the very last word...one of those sudden insights that leave us breathless..This piece has an odd history. A few years ago, I agreed to be one of the“prizes†in an auction to benefit Chorus America: the highest bidder wouldget a new piece from me, while their money went to the organization. Thewinning bid came from a collection of several professional choruses anddirectors. But I was always a little vague about the details, and, hearingnothing more about it for a few years, forgot the whole thing.One day I received a message from Thomas Edward Morgan, directorof the Ars Nova Chamber Singers in Boulder: they had scheduled thepremiere of my new piece for a few weeks later, and could they have themusic, please? I needed a text, quickly, and (as usual) I was in a Los Angeleshotel room, not at home with my books. So I turned to the internet andsoon tracked down my favorite poet, A.R. Ammons (1926-2001).Once I stumbled on “Eyesight,†I remembered having loved the poemyears before. Archie must have loved it, too, because he included it bothin his Collected Poems 1951-1971 and in the later Selected Poems. It haseverything you want in an Archie Ammons poem: what Edward Hirschcalled his “offbeat, sideways, unpredictable radiance,†his “homespunglory.†It has one of his trademark conversations with a mountain (perhapsfrom his native North Carolina), it has the fluid motion from one line tothe next (enjambment, if you want to get technical) that won’t let him orhis reader rest till the very last word of the very last line, and it has in thatlast line one of those sudden insights that leave us breathless: “some thingsthat go are gone.â€I miss Archie, but he’s not gone. I’m grateful for the wonderful poems heleft us, and I’m grateful that he was always generous and kind when I hadthe chutzpah to add my music to his.
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ISBN 9788863881318. Italian.
Songs include: Ayo Technology (Milow), The House of The Rising Sun (The Animals), 1973 - High (James Blunt), Baby can I hold you? (Tracy Chapman), Layla(Eric Clapton), Hotel California (The Eagles), Life for Rent (Dido), Mercy(Duffy),Wake Me Up When September Ends (Green Day), Billie Jean (Michael Jackson), Just The Way You Are (Billy Joel), Come Away with Me (Norah Jones), One Love - People Get Ready (Bob Marley), Don’t Leave Me this Way (TheCommunards), Jesus to a Child (George Michael), Smells Like Teen Spirit (Nirvana), Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2) - Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd), The Show Must Go On - We Are the Champions (Queen), High andDry (Radiohead),Losing my Religion (R.E.M.),Holding Back the Years (Simply Red), Runaway Train (Soul Asylum), Back for Good(Take That), You’ve Got a Friend (James Taylor), Everybody Wants to Rule the World (Tears for Fears), Luka (Suzanne Vega),Back to Black - Rehab (Amy Winehouse).
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