Threnody

During the 1950s at the Warsaw Autumn Festival, the Soviet bloc's answer to the West's avant-garde hothouse in Darmstadt, Germany, Krzysztof Penderecki's 8´37 — "an affair of shrieking cluster chords, sputtering streams of pizzicato, siren-like glissandos, and other Xenakis-like sounds," as Ross writes — was embraced by Communist officials who should have loathed its atonality, after someone proposed the work be retitled Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima.

The 'Mash of Myriad Sounds' Kimmelman, Michael 2008

A Ballad of Canada, so no one would have blamed him if he'd call it Threnody of Canada.

The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Bill Rankin 2011

A Ballad of Canada, so no one would have blamed him if he'd call it Threnody of Canada.

The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Bill Rankin 2011

He takes Penderecki to task for his opportunism* in renaming the originally abstract "Threnody" to be a remembrance of the victims of Hiroshima, but concedes that it was a canny move: "I'd wager that the ugliest, most ear-splitting piece imaginable could win over a 21st century crowd if it had the perfect title."

Archive 2006-12-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2006

He takes Penderecki to task for his opportunism* in renaming the originally abstract "Threnody" to be a remembrance of the victims of Hiroshima, but concedes that it was a canny move: "I'd wager that the ugliest, most ear-splitting piece imaginable could win over a 21st century crowd if it had the perfect title."

The song that goes like this Matthew Guerrieri 2006

Yet the single poem 'Threnody' would establish Emerson's title to a place among the guild of poets.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

Emerson's "Threnody," written after the death of his little boy.

Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived William Joseph Long 1909

It was under the stroke of a great bereavement, the death of his child, that Emerson, in the "Threnody," gave utterance to highest consolation soaring out of sorrow's darkness.

The Chief End of Man George Spring Merriam 1878

Emerson's "Threnody" shows that he has known the shadow; but he has fought with no Apollyons, reached the Celestial City without crossing the dark river, and won the immortal garland "without the dust and heat."

Thomas Carlyle John Nichol 1863

This was the boy whose memory lives in the tenderest and most pathetic of Emerson's poems, the "Threnody," -- a lament not unworthy of comparison with Lycidas for dignity, but full of the simple pathos of Cowper's well-remembered lines on the receipt of his mother's picture, in the place of Milton's sonorous academic phrases.

Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851