"peaceful Greece. David, a kind Englishman, doesn't want to take over his father's business as his family expects him to, and instead decides to travel. These strangers meet in a tavern in peaceful Aghia Anna underneath the stars, and soon they become close friends. Vonni, a native who escaped her family in Ireland many years ago, becomes involved in all their lives and together they form bonds and discover things about each other and themselves that they never could have anticipated. Nights of Rain and Stars Nights of Rain and Stars is a 2004 romance novel by Maeve Binchy. In"
"Heart and Soul (Hoagy Carmichael and Frank Loesser song) ""Heart and Soul"" is a popular song composed by Hoagy Carmichael with lyrics by Frank Loesser. In 1938, it was performed by Larry Clinton and his orchestra with vocals by Bea Wain. In 1939, three versions reached the music charts: Larry Clinton (No. 1), Eddy Duchin (No. 12), and Al Donahue (No. 16). A version by The Four Aces with the Jack Pleis Orchestra reached No. 11 in 1952, and a version by Johnny Maddox reached No. 57 in 1956. In 1961, The Cleftones version reached No. 18 and the one"
"Henry Vaughan Henry Vaughan (17 April 1621 – 23 April 1695) was a Welsh metaphysical poet, author, translator and physician, who wrote in English. He is chiefly known for the religious poetry contained in ""Silex Scintillans"", published in 1650, with a second part published in 1655. In 1646 his Poems, with the ""Tenth Satyre of Juvenal Englished"" was published, followed by a second volume in 1647. Meanwhile, he had been ""converted"" by reading the religious poet George Herbert and gave up ""idle verse"". The prose ""Mount of Olives"": or, ""Solitary Devotions"" (1652) show the depth of his religious convictions and"
"poem has flaws that do not exist in other works Yeats wrote in the same period, suggesting that while the poem is ""honest"", the ""strength is not there"". Blood and the Moon Blood and the Moon is a poem by Irish poet William Butler Yeats written in 1928 and published in the collection ""The Winding Stair"" in 1929 before being reprinted in The Winding Stair and Other Poems in 1933. Yeats composed the poem in response to the 1927 assassination of Kevin O'Higgins, the Vice-President of the Free State, whom Yeats had known personally. The poem contains many themes common"
"Robert Bache Smith Robert Bache Smith ( June 4, 1875 – November 6, 1951 ), usually published as Robert B. Smith, was an American librettist and lyricist. His older brother, Harry B. Smith, was also a successful lyricist and a writer and composer. Born in Chicago, Smith began his career apprenticing with the famed vaudeville duo Weber and Fields. He most notably wrote the lyrics to “Come Down, Ma Evenin' Star” from Weber and Fields' ""Twirly Whirly"" (1902; famously sung by Lillian Russell). He went on to write libretti for operettas and lyrics for musicals, including such works as ""Fantana"""
"Warwick Hutton Warwick Hutton (17 July 1939 – 28 September 1994) was an English painter, glass engraver, illustrator, and children's author. He is most widely known for elegant pen and ink and watercolor illustrations for children’s books. His subjects were Biblical, folk, and mythological stories which Hutton retold, such as ""Noah and the Great Flood"", ""The Nose Tree"", and ""Theseus and the Minotaur"". He also worked with texts by Hans Christian Andersen (""The Tinderbox"") and with retellings of traditional stories by author Susan Cooper (""The Silver Cow"", ""The Selkie Girl"", ""Tam Lin""). The ""Nose Tree"" and ""Jonah and the Big"
"Stanley Myers Stanley Myers (6 October 19309 November 1993) was a British film composer who scored over sixty films. He is best known for his guitar piece ""Cavatina"". Myers was born in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England; as a teenager he went to King Edward's School in Edgbaston, a suburb of Birmingham. Myers wrote incidental music for television: for example, The Reign of Terror, a 1964 serial in the television series ""Doctor Who""; the theme to ""All Gas and Gaiters""; and the theme for the BBC's ""Question Time"". He is known for composing music for the cult horror films ""House of Whipcord"","
"Bob Hilliard Bob Hilliard (born Hilliard Goldsmith; January 28, 1918 – February 1, 1971) was an American lyricist. He wrote the words for the songs: ""Alice in Wonderland"", ""In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning"", ""Any Day Now"", ""Dear Hearts and Gentle People"", ""Our Day Will Come"", ""My Little Corner of the World"", ""Tower of Strength"" and ""Seven Little Girls (Sitting in the Back Seat)"". After finishing high school, Hilliard began working as a lyricist in Tin Pan Alley. At the age of 28 he had his first success with ""The Coffee Song"". During his Broadway years, Hilliard wrote"
"ev'ry corner sing: My God and King. Five Mystical Songs The Five Mystical Songs are a musical composition by English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958), written between 1906 and 1911. The work sets four poems (""Easter"" divided into two parts) by seventeenth-century Welsh-born English poet and Anglican priest George Herbert (1593–1633), from his 1633 collection ""The Temple: Sacred Poems"". While Herbert was a priest, Vaughan Williams himself was an atheist at the time (he later settled into a ""cheerful agnosticism""), though this did not prevent his setting of verse of an overtly religious inspiration. The work received its first performance"
"is sincere, original and marked by delicate fancy, and felicity of form; and his songs have given him a high and permanent place among American lyric poets. His 1857 poem ""Roses and Thorns"", in a Russian translation by Aleksey Pleshcheyev, was set for voice and piano by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky as ""Legend"", No. 5 from ""Sixteen Songs for Children"", Op. 54. The song, in turn, was the basis of Anton Arensky's Variations on a Theme by Tchaikovsky, Op. 35a, for string orchestra. Richard Henry Stoddard Richard Henry Stoddard (July 2, 1825May 12, 1903) was an American critic and poet. Richard"
"and ""Tired"" and ""Hands, Eyes, and Heart"" belonging to another. However, there is debate in the scholarly community about this proposed song cycle grouping. Renée Chérie Clark in her essay, ""A Critical Appraisal of Four Last Songs"" suggests, citing a letter from the composer to a friend at Cornell University, that Vaughan Williams actually intended for ""Menelaus"" and ""Hands, Eyes, and Heart"" to be grouped together. The composer's death in 1958 left both cycles unfinished, and in 1960, they were assembled by the composer's widow, Ursula Vaughan Williams, and published as set by Oxford University Press. The texts of all"
"can write both graceful and effective prose"" and influenced the work of poets such as Wordsworth, Tennyson and Siegfried Sassoon. The American science fiction writer Philip K. Dick also named Vaughan as a key influence. Several poems by Vaughan from ""Silex Scintillans"" have been set to music, including: Henry Vaughan Henry Vaughan (17 April 1621 – 23 April 1695) was a Welsh metaphysical poet, author, translator and physician, who wrote in English. He is chiefly known for the religious poetry contained in ""Silex Scintillans"", published in 1650, with a second part published in 1655. In 1646 his Poems, with the"
"Hyde"", ""The Scarlet Pimpernel"", ""The Civil War"", and ""Bonnie & Clyde"" also received nominations for Outstanding Musical by the Outer Critics Circle. Frank Wildhorn Frank Wildhorn (born November 29, 1958) is an American composer known for both his musicals and popular songs. He is most known for his musical ""Jekyll & Hyde"", which ran four years on Broadway, and for writing the #1 International hit song ""Where Do Broken Hearts Go"" for Whitney Houston. Wildhorn was born in Harlem and spent his childhood in Queens before moving to Hollywood, Florida at age 14. Soon after he taught himself how to"
"Blood and the Moon Blood and the Moon is a poem by Irish poet William Butler Yeats written in 1928 and published in the collection ""The Winding Stair"" in 1929 before being reprinted in The Winding Stair and Other Poems in 1933. Yeats composed the poem in response to the 1927 assassination of Kevin O'Higgins, the Vice-President of the Free State, whom Yeats had known personally. The poem contains many themes common in Yeats's poems from the 1920s including the ""tower"", a reference to ""Thoor Ballylee"", which had been the title of a collection of works printed the year before"
"Frank Wildhorn Frank Wildhorn (born November 29, 1958) is an American composer known for both his musicals and popular songs. He is most known for his musical ""Jekyll & Hyde"", which ran four years on Broadway, and for writing the #1 International hit song ""Where Do Broken Hearts Go"" for Whitney Houston. Wildhorn was born in Harlem and spent his childhood in Queens before moving to Hollywood, Florida at age 14. Soon after he taught himself how to play the piano, Wildhorn realized he wanted to compose music. During high school, he played in and wrote for various bands, ranging"
"anthologist Harvey McQueen in ""The Earth’s Deep Breathing: Garden Poems by New Zealand Poets"". Kathleen Hawkins Kathleen Jessie Hawkins (17 November 1883 – 31 August 1981) was a Tauranga, New Zealand, poet affectionately known as ""The Pioneer Poet"". Well known in Tauranga, her best-known volume ""The Elms and Other Verses"" ran into several editions or reprints covering historical pioneer subjects. Hawkins was specially interested in the first missionaries who came to Tauranga, and in the Land Wars with their loss of life on both sides. Hawkins (an only child) was born in Tewkesbury, England, in 1883. The River Avon flowed"
"Watts Phillips Watts Phillips (16 November 1825 – 2 December 1874) was an English illustrator, novelist and playwright best known for his play ""The Dead Heart"" which served as a model for Charles Dickens' ""A Tale of Two Cities"". In a memoir, his sister Emma recalled that he had “many difficulties” in his life and waged “a gallant struggle against chequered fortune.” She described him as a “bright and buoyant character”, “a really brilliant, energetic man, who had many gifts and accomplishments, with a cheerful, undaunted spirit, which to the last helped him to encounter trials, and a vein of"
"hundred songs, including fifty that achieved hit record status. He is best known for composing the music for ""Stardust"", ""Georgia on My Mind"" (lyrics by Stuart Gorrell), ""The Nearness of You"", and ""Heart and Soul"" (in collaboration with lyricist Frank Loesser), four of the most-recorded American songs of all time. He also collaborated with lyricist Johnny Mercer on ""Lazybones"" and ""Skylark."" Carmichael's ""Ole Buttermilk Sky"" was an Academy Award nominee in 1946 (from ""Canyon Passage"", in which he co-starred as a musician riding a mule); ""In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening,"" with lyrics by Mercer, won the Academy"
"Dorothy Fields Dorothy Fields (July 15, 1904 – March 28, 1974) was an American librettist and lyricist. She wrote over 400 songs for Broadway musicals and films. Her best-known pieces include ""The Way You Look Tonight"" (1936), ""A Fine Romance"" (1936), ""On the Sunny Side of the Street"" (1930), ""Don't Blame Me"" (1948), ""Pick Yourself Up"" (1936), ""I'm in the Mood for Love"" (1935) and ""You Couldn't Be Cuter"" (1938). Throughout her career, she collaborated with various influential figures in the American musical theater, including Jerome Kern, Cy Coleman, Irving Berlin, and Jimmy McHugh. Along with Ann Ronell, Dana Suesse,"
"his ""Transport to Summer"", when Stevens had written three volumes of poems including ""Ideas of Order"", ""The Man with the Blue Guitar"", ""Parts of the World"", along with ""Transport to Summer"". His third and final period of writing poems occurred with the publication of ""The Auroras of Autumn"" in the early 1950s followed by the release of his ""Collected Poems"" in 1954 a year before his death. His best-known poems include ""The Auroras of Autumn"", ""Anecdote of the Jar"", ""Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock"", ""The Emperor of Ice-Cream"", ""The Idea of Order at Key West"", ""Sunday Morning"", ""The Snow Man"", and"
"hearts of more than one generation, was not the inspiration of an aging poet but a “re-hash” produced on order. The story developed after the unveiling of a monument here in honor of the author of the words, Eben E. Rexford, who died in 1916. Rexford made a living by writing verse and flower and garden articles for magazines. When he was 18, he wrote and sold for $3 some verses entitled “Growing Old.” Later, H. P. Danks, composer of the music for “Silver Threads,” wrote to him requesting words for a song. Rexford dug into his scrapbook and revised"
"""Swing Time"", for which Jerome Kern had written the music, in which Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire sang Fields's words, ""Pick yourself up; dust yourself off; start all over again"". Dorothy Fields Dorothy Fields (July 15, 1904 – March 28, 1974) was an American librettist and lyricist. She wrote over 400 songs for Broadway musicals and films. Her best-known pieces include ""The Way You Look Tonight"" (1936), ""A Fine Romance"" (1936), ""On the Sunny Side of the Street"" (1930), ""Don't Blame Me"" (1948), ""Pick Yourself Up"" (1936), ""I'm in the Mood for Love"" (1935) and ""You Couldn't Be Cuter"" (1938)."
"Charles Whitehead Charles Whitehead (1804 – 5 July 1862) was an English poet, novelist, and dramatist. Whitehead was born in London, the eldest son of a wine merchant. His most memorable works, which met with popular favour were: ""The Solitary"" (1831), a poem, ""The Autobiography of Jack Ketch"" (1834), a novel, ""The Cavalier"" (1836), a play in blank verse, ""Richard Savage"" (1842), perhaps his finest novel; and ""The Earl of Essex"", an historical romance (1843). Whitehead recommended Charles Dickens for the writing of the letterpress for Robert Seymour's drawings, which ultimately developed into ""The Pickwick Papers"". Whitehead had problems with"
"She was one of a kind."" A 1976 audio recording of her interviewing Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge for radio is archived in the National Library of Australia. Quaintance Eaton Quaintance Eaton (August 23, 1901 — April 12, 1992) was an American writer and arts administrator, author of several works on the history of opera. Frances Quaintance Eaton was born in Kansas City, Missouri, the daughter of Dudley Ward Eaton, a lawyer, and Madge McAlister Eaton. The name ""Quaintance"" was a family name. ""My Quaker grandmother was named Bathsheeba Gidley Quaintance,"" she explained. ""Fortunately I inherited only part of her"
"W. H. Auden Wystan Hugh Auden (21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973) was an English-American poet. Auden's poetry was noted for its stylistic and technical achievement, its engagement with politics, morals, love, and religion, and its variety in tone, form and content. He is best known for love poems such as ""Funeral Blues"", poems on political and social themes such as ""September 1, 1939"" and ""The Shield of Achilles"", poems on cultural and psychological themes such as ""The Age of Anxiety"", and poems on religious themes such as ""For the Time Being"" and ""Horae Canonicae"". He was born in"
"Australia on 29 August and Melbourne on 31 August, but cancelled the concerts on medical advice. All songs written and arranged by Joan Armatrading. Hearts and Flowers (album) Hearts and Flowers is the twelfth studio album by British singer-songwriter Joan Armatrading. The album was written, arranged and produced by Armatrading; recorded at Bumpkin Studios, her own studios in the grounds of her home; mixed at The Grey Room in Los Angeles and mastered at Sterling Sound, New York. Armatrading began writing the album in 1989 and finished it in April 1990. It was released on 4 June 1990 by A&M"
"Dickens — """"By The Sweat Of My Brow"""" Jack Rhodes Andrew Jackson 'Jack' Rhodes (January 12, 1907 - October 9, 1968) was an American country music producer and songwriter, with songwriting credits on over 100 released records. Several of his songs became hit records, including ""A Satisfied Mind"", ""Silver Threads and Golden Needles"", ""Conscience I'm Guilty"", ""The Waltz of the Angels"", ""Beautiful Lies"", and ""Till the Last Leaf Shall Fall"". Inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1972 (posthumously), he is most recently celebrated as one of the founding fathers of Rockabilly, imparting a country/rock infusion. He was"
"Five Mystical Songs The Five Mystical Songs are a musical composition by English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958), written between 1906 and 1911. The work sets four poems (""Easter"" divided into two parts) by seventeenth-century Welsh-born English poet and Anglican priest George Herbert (1593–1633), from his 1633 collection ""The Temple: Sacred Poems"". While Herbert was a priest, Vaughan Williams himself was an atheist at the time (he later settled into a ""cheerful agnosticism""), though this did not prevent his setting of verse of an overtly religious inspiration. The work received its first performance on 14 September 1911, at the Three"
"Four Last Songs (Vaughan Williams) Ralph Vaughan Williams' Four Last Songs cycle is made up of four songs: ""Procris,"" ""Tired,"" ""Hands, Eyes, and Heart,"" and ""Menelaus."" All of the songs were composed between 1954 and 1958. The cycle is best suited for mezzo-soprano, although, the original program note from the cycle's 1959 premiere acknowledges that all of the songs may be sung by a baritone, except for ""Hands, Eyes, and Heart"" ""which is a woman's song."" It is suggested that the four songs were originally intended to be two separate song cycles with ""Menelaus"" and ""Procris"" belonging to one cycle"
"actually held the key to their devotion."" She was the great-aunt of actress Laurie Metcalf. She lived for a short time in Morrisonville, Illinois. Akins died in her sleep on the eve of her 72nd birthday in Los Angeles. She loved<br>Shakespeare's sonnets<br>Paris bonnets.<br>Country walks,<br>All-night talks,<br>Old trees and places<br>Children's faces<br>Shaw and Keats,<br>Opera seats,<br>Lonely prairies,<br>Tea at Sherry's,<br>Sunlight and air,<br>Vanity Fair Zoe Akins Zoe Byrd Akins (October 30, 1886 – October 29, 1958) was an American playwright, poet, and author. She won a Pulitzer Prize for drama. Zoe Byrd Akins was born in Humansville, Missouri, second of three children of Thomas Jasper and"
"Joseph Edwards Carpenter Joseph Edwards Carpenter (2 November 1813, London – 6 May 1885, Bayswater) was an English playwright, composer, and songwriter. In 1851 Carpenter moved from Leamington to London. He wrote various touring musical entertainments such as ""The Road, the Rail and the River"", and a ""Vocal, Pictorial, and Descriptive Illustration of Uncle Tom's Cabin"" (1853). A two-act musical drama ""The Sanctuary"" and his three-act drama ""Love and Honour"" appeared in 1854, and a three-act drama ""Adam Bede"" in 1862. He wrote lyrics for over 2500 songs and duets, publishing them in ""Ainsworth's Magazine"" and other magazines, and partnering"
"four songs are poems written by Vaughan Williams' wife Ursula who penned several books of poetry throughout her lifetime as well as a biography of her late husband. ""Procris"" and ""Menelaus"" deal with figures from ancient Greek and Roman mythology and epic poetry while ""Tired"" and ""Hands, Eyes, and Heart"" depict images of love between a husband and wife. Piero di Cosimo's painting ""A Satyr Mourning Over a Nymph"" or ""The Death of Procris"" stirred Ursula Vaughan Williams to write her poem ""Procris."" In ancient mythology, Procris, suspecting her husband Cephalus of having a secret lover, sneaks up on him"
"Lorenz Hart Lorenz Milton Hart (May 2, 1895 – November 22, 1943) was the lyricist half of the Broadway songwriting team Rodgers and Hart. Some of his more famous lyrics include ""Blue Moon,"" ""Mountain Greenery,"" ""The Lady Is a Tramp,"" ""Manhattan,"" ""Where or When,"" ""Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered,"" ""Falling in Love with Love,"" ""Have You Met Miss Jones?,"" ""My Funny Valentine,"" ""I Could Write a Book"", ""This Can't Be Love"", ""With a Song in My Heart"", ""It Never Entered My Mind"", and ""Isn't It Romantic?"". Hart was born in Harlem, the elder of two sons, to Jewish immigrant parents, Max"