"The poem ?Funeral Blue? begins with the words ""Stop all the clocks.."". Who wrote it?"
"read the poem in memory of Denholm Reynholm, before he is interrupted by the return of Reynholm's son, Douglas. Funeral Blues ""Funeral Blues"" or ""Stop all the clocks"" is a poem by W. H. Auden. An early version was published in 1936, but the poem in its final, familiar form was first published in ""The Year's Poetry"" (London, 1938). The first, and less widely known, version of the poem, written and published in 1936, has five stanzas; the 1938 final version has four. Only the first two stanzas are the same in both versions. The 1936 version was a satiric"
"dedicated to Auden's geologist brother John Bicknell Auden who had taken part in an expedition near the Himalayan mountain K2. Auden personally invited Benjamin Britten to write the incidental music for the play. Britten composed the music in February 1937, the month of the play's first production, including a choral setting of ""Stop all the clocks"" (titled ""Funeral Blues""). The play was first produced at the Mercury Theatre, London on 26 February 1937, with incidental music by Benjamin Britten conducted from the piano by Brian Easdale. Directed by Rupert Doone, the cast included William Devlin as Michael Ransom, Dorothy Holmes-Gore"
"group of critics and poets has maintained that unlike other modern poets, Auden's reputation did not decline after his death, and the influence of his later writing was especially strong on younger American poets including John Ashbery, James Merrill, Anthony Hecht, and Maxine Kumin. Typical later evaluations describe him as ""arguably the [20th] century's greatest poet"" (Peter Parker and Frank Kermode), who ""now clearly seems the greatest poet in English since Tennyson"" (Philip Hensher). Public recognition of Auden's work sharply increased after his ""Funeral Blues"" (""Stop all the clocks"") was read aloud in the film ""Four Weddings and a Funeral"""
"Stop the Clocks (song) ""Stop the Clocks"" is a song by English rock band Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds. Written by guitarist and vocalist Noel Gallagher in 2001, the song was originally recorded for the Oasis album ""Don't Believe the Truth"" in 2004, but was removed from the final track listing. When the band released a compilation of the same name, it was rumoured that the song would appear as a bonus track on the album, but as of 2009 (and the disbandment of Oasis) the song remained unreleased. A studio performance of the song, believed to be dating from"
"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"
"Hedli Anderson Antoinette Millicent Hedley Anderson (1907–1990) was an English singer and actor. Known as Hedli Anderson, she studied singing in England and Germany before returning to London in 1934. Anderson joined the Group Theatre, and performed in cabaret and in the initial productions of plays by W. H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood and Louis MacNeice. She married MacNeice in 1942; the couple had one daughter. They separated in 1960. Among the composers and lyricists who wrote songs for her were Auden, MacNeice, Benjamin Britten, Elisabeth Lutyens and William Alwyn. Auden's ""Funeral Blues"" (also known as ""Stop all the clocks"", later"
"Five Bells ""Five Bells"" (1939) is a meditative poem by Australian poet Kenneth Slessor. It was originally published as the title poem in the author's collection ""Five Bells : XX Poems"", and later appeared in numerous poetry anthologies. The poem is a meditative piece based on a ship's bell ringing five bells - which occurs at either 2:30, 6:30, 10:30, 14:30, 18:30 or 22:30. The poem is a reflection of the death of Slessor's friend Joe Lynch who drowned in Sydney Harbour in 1927. In her essay ""'Living Backward' : Slessor and Masculine Elegy"" (1997) Kate Lilley noted: ""Chronologically displaced,"
"below, works reprinted in the ""Complete Works of W. H. Auden"" are indicated by footnote references. Sources 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"
"Midnight Blue (Melissa Manchester song) ""Midnight Blue"" is a title of a Top Ten hit single by Melissa Manchester that was taken from her 1975 album ""Melissa"": ""Billboard"" magazine described the song as ""a classically elegant quiet ballad about a pair of longtime lovers putting aside their aggravations until the dawn in order to try making it one more time in memory of all their old times together."" The song had been written by Manchester in 1973 as her first collaboration with Carole Bayer Sager, who would be Manchester's regular lyricist over the next five years; Manchester would recall: ""the"
"It's All Over Now, Baby Blue ""It's All Over Now, Baby Blue"" is a song written and performed by Bob Dylan and featured on his ""Bringing It All Back Home"" album, released on March 22, 1965 by Columbia Records (""see"" 1965 in music). The song was recorded on January 15, 1965 with Dylan's acoustic guitar and harmonica and William E. Lee's bass guitar the only instrumentation. The lyrics were heavily influenced by Symbolist poetry and bid farewell to the titular ""Baby Blue."" There has been much speculation about the real life identity of ""Baby Blue"", with possibilites including Joan Baez,"
"Lock All the Doors ""Lock All the Doors"" is a song by the English rock band Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds released on the band's second studio album, ""Chasing Yesterday"". In late August 2015, the song was released as the fourth single from that album. Gallagher first wrote the chorus and one verse of the song in the 1990s but took 23 years to complete it, having given away the verse to The Chemical Brothers during the recording sessions for ""Setting Sun"". After struggling to rewrite a verse to fit with the chorus in the years that followed, Gallagher has"
"the life of the Queen Mother. To move on."" The piece was published as the preface to the order of service for the Queen Mother's funeral in Westminster Abbey on 9 April 2002, with authorship stated as ""Anonymous"". According to a report in ""The Guardian"":Such was the popular mood (remember the queues across the bridges near Westminster Abbey) that the words of the poem, so plain as scarcely to be poetic, seemed to strike a chord. Not since Auden's 'Stop All the Clocks' in the film ""Four Weddings and a Funeral"" had a piece of funerary verse made such an"
"Deep Blue (song) ""Deep Blue"" is a song by English musician George Harrison, released as the B-side to his 1971 charity single ""Bangla Desh"". Harrison wrote the song in 1970, midway through the recording sessions for ""All Things Must Pass"", and recorded it in Los Angeles the following year while organising the Concert for Bangladesh. The composition was inspired by the deteriorating condition of his mother, Louise, before she succumbed to cancer in July 1970, and by Harrison's feelings of helplessness as he visited her in hospital in the north of England. Given the subject matter of his lyrics, ""Deep"
"Blood Count ""Blood Count"" is a 1967 jazz composition by Billy Strayhorn. It was originally meant for a three-piece work Strayhorn was writing for Duke Ellington and initially titled ""Blue Cloud"". However, Strayhorn was hospitalized in 1967 due to cancer and finished the composition while in the hospital. He died on 31 May and ""Blood Count"" was his last finished composition. The Ellington orchestra debuted ""Blood Count"" at a Carnegie Hall concert in March, this was later released as ""The Greatest Jazz Concert in the World"". In August 1967 Ellington recorded the tune on his tribute album for Strayhorn, ""...And"
"The Bells (symphony) The Bells (, ""Kolokola""), Op. 35, is a choral symphony by Sergei Rachmaninoff, written in 1913. The words are from the poem ""The Bells"" by Edgar Allan Poe, very freely translated into Russian by the symbolist poet Konstantin Balmont. The traditional Gregorian melody ""Dies Irae"" is used frequently throughout the work. It was one of Rachmaninoff's two favorite compositions, along with his ""All-Night Vigil"", and is considered by some to be his secular choral masterpiece. Rachmaninoff called the work both a choral symphony and (unofficially) his Third Symphony shortly after writing it; however, he would later write"
"Bells"" for high soprano and ten instruments, using Poe's text in its entirety although in Dutch. The piece was premiered in London, and has appeared on a CD from Bridge Records, New York. MC Lars, a Nerdcore Hip hop musician sang a complete version of the poem on his 2012 ""Edgar Allan Poe EP"" titled ""(Rock) The Bells"". The song may be listened to freely on his Bandcamp page. The Bells (poem) ""The Bells"" is a heavily onomatopoeic poem by Edgar Allan Poe which was not published until after his death in 1849. It is perhaps best known for the"
"Christopher Isherwood. The 1938 version was written to be sung by the soprano Hedli Anderson in a setting by Benjamin Britten. This version was first published in the anthology ""The Year's Poetry, 1938"", compiled by Denys Kilham Roberts and Geoffrey Grigson (London, 1938). Auden then included it in his book ""Another Time"" (New York, 1940) as one of four poems headed ""Four Cabaret Songs for Miss Hedli Anderson""; the poem itself was titled ""Funeral Blues"" in this edition. (Auden never gave the poem any other title.) The text in the British edition of ""Another Time"" has a misprint, showing ""woods"""
"a letter to Marietta Shaginyan announcing the completion of the work. The Bells (symphony) The Bells (, ""Kolokola""), Op. 35, is a choral symphony by Sergei Rachmaninoff, written in 1913. The words are from the poem ""The Bells"" by Edgar Allan Poe, very freely translated into Russian by the symbolist poet Konstantin Balmont. The traditional Gregorian melody ""Dies Irae"" is used frequently throughout the work. It was one of Rachmaninoff's two favorite compositions, along with his ""All-Night Vigil"", and is considered by some to be his secular choral masterpiece. Rachmaninoff called the work both a choral symphony and (unofficially) his"
"Blue cathedral blue cathedral is an orchestral composition by the American composer Jennifer Higdon. The work was commissioned by the Curtis Institute of Music in 1999 to commemorate the conservatory's 75th anniversary. It was first performed in 2000 by the Curtis Institute of Music Symphony Orchestra. The piece is dedicated to the memory of Higdon's brother and is one of the composer's most performed works. ""blue cathedral"" has a duration of roughly 13 minutes and is composed in a single movement. The piece was written in memory of Higdon's younger brother, Andrew Blue Higdon, who died of skin cancer in"
"But it stopped short — never to go again —<br> When the old man died. <br> It rang an alarm in the dead of the night —<br> An alarm that for years had been dumb;<br> And we knew that his spirit was pluming for flight —<br> That his hour of departure had come.<br> Still the clock kept the time, with a soft and muffled chime,<br> As we silently stood by his side; <br> But it stopped short — never to go again —<br> When the old man died. My Grandfather's Clock ""Grandfather's Clock"" is a song written in 1876 by"
"its title and epigraph from the poem. The Man With the Blue Guitar The Man With the Blue Guitar is a poem published in 1937 by Wallace Stevens. It is divided into thirty-three lengthy sections, or cantos. The poem has been discussed as taking the form of an imaginary conversation with the subject of Pablo Picasso's 1904 painting ""The Old Guitarist"", which Stevens may have viewed when it was exhibited at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1934. But Stevens insisted this influence was only peripheral. In a letter dated July 1, 1953, to Professor Renato Poggioli, who had"
"The Hours (engraving) The Hours is a stipple engraving by a master of the technique, Francesco Bartolozzi (1725-1815), published on April 4, 1788, from the print shop of Thomas Macklin, at No. 39 Fleet Street, London. The print is based upon a painting by Maria Cosway (1760-1838). The dancing hours, or nymphs of Greek mythology, were a pictorial representation of the poem ""Ode on the Spring"" by British poet Thomas Gray (1716-1771). The poem begins: <poem>""Lo! where the rosy-bosomed Hours, Fair Venus' train, appear, Disclose the long-expecting flowers, And wake the purple year! The Attic warbler pours her throat, Responsive"
"The Man With the Blue Guitar The Man With the Blue Guitar is a poem published in 1937 by Wallace Stevens. It is divided into thirty-three lengthy sections, or cantos. The poem has been discussed as taking the form of an imaginary conversation with the subject of Pablo Picasso's 1904 painting ""The Old Guitarist"", which Stevens may have viewed when it was exhibited at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1934. But Stevens insisted this influence was only peripheral. In a letter dated July 1, 1953, to Professor Renato Poggioli, who had recently translated his poem into Italian, Stevens"
"The Children's Hour (poem) ""The Children's Hour"" is a poem by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, first published in the September 1860 edition of ""The Atlantic Monthly."" The poem describes the poet's idyllic family life with his own three daughters, Alice, Edith, and Anne Allegra: ""grave Alice, and laughing Allegra, and Edith with golden hair."" As the darkness begins to fall, the narrator of the poem (Longfellow himself) is sitting in his study and hears his daughters in the room above. He describes them as an approaching army about to enter through a ""sudden rush"" and a ""sudden raid"" via"
"Closing Time (Deacon Blue song) ""Closing Time"" is the third single from the album ""Fellow Hoodlums"" by the Scottish rock band Deacon Blue. It peaked at No. 42 in the UK Singles Chart. Two of the three B-sides, ""I Was Like That"" and ""Friends of Billy Bear"", continue the style of ""Fourteen Years"" and ""Faifley"" on the ""Your Swaying Arms"" single, utilizing raw, Blues-influenced music and low, gruff, and rambling spoken and sung vocals from Ricky Ross. The third B-side, ""Into the Good Night"", is a more traditional Deacon Blue ballad. All songs written by Ricky Ross, except where noted:"
"Closing Time (Deacon Blue song) ""Closing Time"" is the third single from the album ""Fellow Hoodlums"" by the Scottish rock band Deacon Blue. It peaked at No. 42 in the UK Singles Chart. Two of the three B-sides, ""I Was Like That"" and ""Friends of Billy Bear"", continue the style of ""Fourteen Years"" and ""Faifley"" on the ""Your Swaying Arms"" single, utilizing raw, Blues-influenced music and low, gruff, and rambling spoken and sung vocals from Ricky Ross. The third B-side, ""Into the Good Night"", is a more traditional Deacon Blue ballad. All songs written by Ricky Ross, except where noted:"
"you think, o blue-eyed banditti, Because you have scaled the wall, Such an old mustache as I am Is not a match for you all! I have you fast in my fortress, And will not let you depart, But put you down into the dungeon In the round-tower of my heart. And there will I keep you forever, Yes, forever and a day, Till the walls shall crumble to ruin, And moulder in dust away!!</poem> ""The Children's Hour"" was set by Charles Ives and published as number 74 in his 114 Songs collection. The penultimate stanza features at the final"
"full police funeral at Southwark Cathedral. It was attended by his family and friends, and a number of dignitaries including Cressida Dick, the newly appointed Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police. Dick read the poem ""Funeral Blues"" by W. H. Auden at the service which was her first public engagement since taking up the post. The address was given by Andrew Nunn, the Dean of Southwark. Palmer was married to his wife, Michelle. They have a daughter, who was aged five at the time of Palmer's death. Palmer was a supporter of Charlton Athletic F.C. and held a season ticket. The"
"Past Three O'Clock ""Past Three O'Clock"" (or ""Past Three A Clock"") is a Christmas carol, loosely based on the traditional cry of the city night watchman. The words were written by George Ratcliffe Woodward (1848–1934) to the traditional tune ""London Waits"". Woodward added lines to the traditional refrain in a style characteristic of his delight in archaic poetry. It was published in ""A Cambridge Carol Book: Being Fifty-two Songs for Christmas, Easter and Other Seasons"" in 1924. Numerous variations of the carol include an arrangement by William Llewellyn as a ""quodlibet"" for choir: ""London Waits (Past Three O'clock)"". Recordings of"
"army blue. ""Chorus"" Good Bye, Old Glory ""Good Bye, Old Glory"" is a song published on September 29, 1865, after the end of the American Civil War. The words are by L. J. Bates with music by George Frederick Root. Its subject is the end of the war and the end of army life from a soldier's point of view. Old Glory is the Union flag. The ""tattoo"" in the song refers to a military drum call. Hard tack, the battle of Vicksburg and a warning to Britain are referenced in the song. ""Verse 1""<br> Four weary years of toil"
"Mercury Blues ""Mercury Blues"" is a song written by K. C. Douglas and Robert Geddins, and first recorded by Douglas in 1948. The song, originally titled ""Mercury Boogie,"" pays homage to the American automobile, which ended production in 2010. The song has been covered among others by the Steve Miller Band (1967, at The Monterey International Pop Festival, and 1976, on their album, ""Fly Like an Eagle""), David Lindley (1981), the Finn Pave Maijanen (1987), Alan Jackson (1993), Meat Loaf (2003) and Dwight Yoakam (2004). Maijanen's version in Finnish is named ""Pakko saada BMW"" (meaning Gotta have a BMW), but"
"All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace ""All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace"" is a poem by Richard Brautigan first published in his 1967 collection of the same name, his fifth book of poetry. It is an enthusiastic description of a technological utopia in which machines improve and protect the lives of humans. It is Brautigan's most frequently reprinted poem. The poem describes a world in which ""mammals and computers live together in mutually programming harmony"", with technology acting as caretakers while ""we are free of our labors and joined back to nature."" Most critics take the"
"Let's Go Blue ""Let's Go Blue"" is a short song most often associated with the University of Michigan, but widely performed during high school and professional sports as well. It was composed by Joe Carl and first arranged by Al Ahronheim in the 1970s. The song consists of 32 bars and is 40 seconds long. The melody to ""Let's Go Blue"" was written by Joe Carl, with various dates given for its composition including 1972, 1975, and 1976. Carl, who at the time of the song's composition was an undergraduate student at the University of Michigan and tuba player in"