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{{short description|Classical composition for narrator and string orchestra}} ...ng the [[overture]] ''[[Aotearoa (overture)|Aotearoa]]'' and preceding ''[[A Song of Islands]]''.<ref name="Te Ara">{{cite web |title=Landfall in unknow ...

| scoring = {{hlist | narrator | small mixed choir | small orchestra }} ...ivately, whilst the public premiere took place in [[Oxford]] in June 1952, with [[Steuart Wilson]] as the speaker and [[Bernard Rose (musician)|Bernard Ros ...

...and published in the volume ''[[Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness]]'', along with the title story, ''[[Prize Stock]]'' and ''[[The Day He Himself Shall Wipe ...ng about the near-blindness in one of his eyes, the result of an attack by a group of children that year. Because of his blurred vision he sees "two w ...

'''''The Whale''''' is a "dramatic [[cantata]]" written by the English composer [[John Tavener]] in ...dia entry describing certain facts about the whale, and this is contrasted with themes within the music which attempt to portray the reality of the whale i ...

| scoring = {{hlist | narrator | tenor | baritone | chorus | orchestra | piano }} ...nded as a sequel to his ''[[Symphonie fantastique]]''. It is written for a narrator, solo tenor and baritone, mixed chorus, and an orchestra including piano. ...

| name = A Song of Islands ...rture)|Aotearoa]]'' (1940) and ''[[Landfall in Unknown Seas]]'' (1942) for narrator and [[string orchestra]].<ref name="Te Ara">{{cite web |title=Landfall in u ...

...s received critical praise for its "integrity and high purpose...delivered with taste and impeccable musicianship." == Compositions Performed By== ...

| scoring = {{hlist | narrator | soprano | baritone | bass | three choirs | children's choir | orchestra } ...ish composer [[Krzysztof Penderecki]]. He composed the work to commemorate a millennium of Polish Christianity following the baptism and conversion of P ...

...received its first performance at the Norwich Festival on 22 October 1930, with Basil Maine as the speaker/orator.<ref>{{cite journal |title=The Norwich Fe ...tor=855527}}</ref><ref name="HG">{{cite journal |title=''Morning Heroes'': A New Symphony by Arthur Bliss | journal=The Musical Times | volume=71 | issu ...

...in Marshall, TX. He then settled in [[New York City|New York]] conducting a studio and directed community and church choirs. This allowed him to concen * "Oh, What a Beautiful City" ...

...iam Topaz McGonagall]] about the [[Tay Whale]], also known as the Monster, a [[humpback whale]] hunted and killed in 1883 in the [[Firth of Tay]] near [ ...he [[Tay Whale]] by [[John Struthers (anatomist)|John Struthers]], wearing a top hat, to the left of the photograph]] ...

...ecognition is his orchestral [[Symphony No. 5½ (Gillis)|Symphony No. 5½, ''A Symphony for Fun'']]. ...stant director of the university band. He graduated in 1935, and obtained a master's degree from [[North Texas State University]] in 1943. ...

...own Seas]]'' (1942), for narrator and orchestra, and the [[tone poem]] ''[[A Song of Islands]]'' (1946). ...urn, Douglas Gordon|access-date=2020-11-14}}</ref> and it was premiered at a concert held to commemorate the signing of the [[Treaty of Waitangi]] at [[ ...

...2013</ref> Sargent also conducted the concert première on 15 October 1946 with the [[Liverpool Philharmonic]] in the [[Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool|Philha ...lutes]], two [[oboe]]s, two [[clarinet]]s in [[soprano clarinet|B flat and A]], two [[bassoon]]s ...

...classified as a cantata, it is essentially a miniature [[comic opera]]. In a satirical commentary, the cantata amusingly tells of an [[addiction]] to [[ ...s that some people in eighteenth-century Germany viewed coffee drinking as a bad habit. However, the work is likely to have been first performed at the ...

| scoring = {{hlist| soprano | narrator | boys' choir mixed choir | orchestra }} ...or a large orchestra, a full choir, a boys' choir, a soprano soloist and a narrator. "''[[Kaddish]]''" refers to the Jewish prayer that is chanted at every [[s ...

...ing on rural traditional folk music, the ranchera developed as a symbol of a new national consciousness in reaction to the aristocratic tastes of the pe Rhythms can have a meter in {{music|time|2|4}} (in slow tempo: '' ranchera lenta'' and faster ...

...al |last=Caldwell |first=Conor |title='The Wee Wee Man' - The evolution of a song through musical and geographic boundaries |url=https://www.academia.ed ...r ladies, usually twenty-four and so beautiful that the ugliest would make a fit queen of Scotland, but they, and the wee, wee man, instantly vanish. ...

"'''Rednecks'''" is a satirical song by [[Randy Newman]], the lead-off track on his 1974 album '' <blockquote>Last night I saw [[Lester Maddox]] on a TV Show ...

'''''The Unnamable''''' is a 1953 novel by [[Samuel Beckett]]. It was originally published in French as ...e=29 July 2021}}</ref><ref name="zen">{{Cite book |title= Beckett and Zen: A Study of Dilemma in the Novels of Samuel Beckett |last=Foster |first=Paul | ...