|
Sara Teasdale
Sara Teasdale (August 8, 1884January 29, 1933) was an American lyric poet. She was born Sarah Trevor Teasdale in St. Louis, Missouri, and used the name Sara Teasdale Filsinger after her marriage in 1914. In 1918 she won a Pulitzer Prize for her 1917 poetry collection ''Love Songs''. Biography Sara Teasdale was born on August 8, 1884. She had poor health for much of her childhood, so she was home schooled until age 9. It was at age 10 that she was well enough to begin school. She started at Mary Institute in 1898, but switched to Hosmer Hall in 1899, graduating in 1903. The Teasdale family lived at 3668 Lindell Blvd. and then 38 Kingsbury Place in St. Louis, Missouri. Both homes were designed by Sara's mother. The house on Kingsbury Place had a private suite for Sara on the second floor. Guests entered through a separate entrance and were admitted by appointment. This suite is where Sara worked, slept, and often dined alone. From 1904 to 1907, Teasdale was a member of The Pot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Missouri
Missouri is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking List of U.S. states and territories by area, 21st in land area, it is bordered by eight states (tied for the most with Tennessee): Iowa to the north, Illinois, Kentucky and Tennessee to the east, Arkansas to the south and Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska to the west. In the south are the Ozarks, a forested highland, providing timber, minerals, and recreation. The Missouri River, after which the state is named, flows through the center into the Mississippi River, which makes up the eastern border. With more than six million residents, it is the List of U.S. states and territories by population, 19th-most populous state of the country. The largest urban areas are St. Louis, Kansas City, Missouri, Kansas City, Springfield, Missouri, Springfield and Columbia, Missouri, Columbia; the Capital city, capital is Jefferson City, Missouri, Jefferson City. Humans have inhabited w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bellefontaine Cemetery
Bellefontaine Cemetery is a nonprofit, non-denominational cemetery and arboretum in St. Louis, Missouri. Founded in 1849 as a rural cemetery, Bellefontaine is home to a number of architecturally significant monuments and mausoleums such as the Louis Sullivan-designed Wainwright Tomb, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The cemetery contains of land and over 87,000 graves, including those of William Clark, Adolphus Busch, Thomas Hart Benton, Rush Limbaugh, and William S. Burroughs. Many Union and Confederate soldiers from the American Civil War are buried at Bellefontaine, as well as numerous local and state politicians. History On March 7, 1849, banker William McPherson and lawyer John Fletcher Darby assembled a group of some of St. Louis's most prominent citizens to found the Rural Cemetery Association of St. Louis. This association sought to respond to the needs of a rapidly growing St. Louis by establishing a new cemetery several miles outside cit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orrick Glenday Johns
Orrick Glenday Johns (June 2, 1887 – July 8, 1946) was an American poet and playwright. He was one of the earliest modernist free-verse poets in Greenwich Village in 1913-1915 and associated with the artist's colony at Grantwood, New Jersey (sometimes referred to as Ridgefield), where '' Others: A Magazine of the New Verse'' was founded and published by Alfred Kreymborg in 1915. Johns's work "Olives," a series of fourteen small poems appeared in the first issue of July 1915. He is part of a coterie of poets and authors sometimes called the "Others" group who were contributors to the magazine or residents at the colony and included: William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, Mina Loy, Ezra Pound, Conrad Aiken, Carl Sandburg, T. S. Eliot, Amy Lowell, H.D., Djuna Barnes, Man Ray, Skipwith Cannell, Lola Ridge, Marcel Duchamp, and Fenton Johnson (poet) (the only African American published in the magazine). Johns is also associated with poets like Vachel Lindsa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mildred Lund Tyson
Mildred Lund Tyson (10 March 1895 – 25 September 1989) was an American choral director, composer, organist, and soprano. Biography Tyson was born in Moline, Illinois, to Mary Helena Anderson and Oscar Fredrick Lund. She married Harold Canfield Tyson in 1927 and they had a daughter, Barbara, in 1930. Tyson earned a B.M. at Northwestern University, where she studied with Carl Beecher, Arne Oldberg, and Walter Allen Stults. She later studied composition at Columbia University, the Eastman School of Music, and at a summer course at Ithaca College. She studied voice with Edward Meyer in Los Angeles and Frederick Bristol in New York City. From 1930 to 1934, Tyson taught piano and voice at Pomona College in Claremont, California. From 1935 to 1940 she was a soprano soloist at St. Thomas Episcopal Church Complex in Mamaroneck, New York. From 1948 to 1982, she was the organist and choir director at the First Congregational Church in Sidney, New York. Tyson belonged to the American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amy Beach
Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (September 5, 1867December 27, 1944) was an American composer and pianist. She was the first successful American female composer of large-scale art music. Her Gaelic Symphony, "Gaelic" Symphony, premiered by the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1896, was the first symphony composed and published by an American woman. She was one of the first American composers to succeed without the benefit of European training, and one of the most respected and acclaimed American composers of her era. As a pianist, she was acclaimed for concerts she gave featuring her own music in the United States and in Germany. Biography Early years and musical education Amy Marcy Cheney was born in Henniker, New Hampshire on September 5, 1867 to Charles Abbott Cheney (nephew of Oren B. Cheney, who co-founded Bates College) and Clara Imogene (Marcy) Cheney. Artistic ability appears to have run in the family: Clara was reputedly an "excellent pianist and singer," while Amy showed every sign o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amy Aldrich Worth
Amy E. Aldrich Worth (January 18, 1888 – April 29, 1967) was an American composer, choir director, and organist who was born in St. Joseph, Missouri. Career Worth studied music with Jessie Gaynor, Frederick Beale, Mary Lyon and Arthur Garbett, and married Harry Worth on July 1, 1915. She taught piano and worked as an organist and choir director in St. Joseph. Later, she directed the Women's Chorus of the Women's University Club in Seattle, Washington, and was a member of the Seattle Society of Composers. In 1955, she served as the Sigma Alpha Iota National Chair of American Music. Her compositions include: Piano *Gavotte Marianne *Purple Heather (two pianos) Vocal *Christ Rises (choir) *Evening is Hushed *He Came All so Still (choir) *Israel *Little Lamb *Madrigal *Mary, the Mother (Christmas cantata; choir) *Midsummer *Pierrot (words by Sara Teasdale Sara Teasdale (August 8, 1884January 29, 1933) was an American lyric poet. She was born Sarah Trevor Teasdale in St. Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marion Cummings
Alice Marion Cummings (1876 - 1926) at was a California-born poet, philosopher, and academic. She taught philosophy, psychology, and the history of education for most of her career at . Cummings edited two poetry anthologies and her own poetry was published in popular periodicals such as ''Smart Set'', ''Harper's'', ''Commonwealth'', ''Lippincott's'', and ''The Forum''. Cummings had a short-lived but intense friendship with poet |
Irene Hunt
Irene Hunt (May 18, 1907 – May 18, 2001) was an American children's writer known best for historical novels. She was a runner-up for the Newbery Medal for her first book, ''Across Five Aprils'', and won the medal for her second, '' Up a Road Slowly''. For her contribution as a children's writer she was U.S. nominee in 1974 for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award, the highest international recognition available to creators of children's books. Life Hunt was born to Franklin P. and Sarah Land Hunt on May 18, 1903 in Pontiac, Illinois. The family soon moved to Newton, Illinois, but Franklin died when Hunt was only seven, and the family moved again to be close to Hunt's grandparents. Hunt's childhood was lonely, but she shared a special relationship with her grandfather. He told her stories about his childhood during the Civil War. In Minneapolis she earned her M.A. In Illinois public schools, she was a teacher of English and French. Later, she taught psyc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ä’riks EÅ¡envalds
Ēriks Ešenvalds (born January 26, 1977) is a Latvian composer. From 2011 to 2013 he was Fellow Commoner in Creative Arts at Trinity College, University of Cambridge. Biography Ēriks Ešenvalds was born in Priekule, Latvia in 1977. He studied at the Latvian Baptist Theological Seminary (1995–1997) before obtaining his master's degree in composition (2004) from the Latvian Academy of Music under the tutelage of Selga Mence. He took master classes with Michael Finnissy, Klaus Huber, Philippe Manoury and Jonathan Harvey, amongst others. From 2002 to 2011 he was a member of the State Choir Latvija. From 2011 to 2013 he was Fellow Commoner in Creative Arts at Trinity College, University of Cambridge. Ešenvalds is a three-time winner of the Latvian Grand Music Award (2005, 2007 and 2015). In 2006, the International Rostrum of Composers awarded him first prize for his work ''The Legend of the Walled-in Woman''. Ešenvalds composed the official anthem of the 2014 World Choir Game ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacquelyn Mitchard
Jacquelyn Mitchard is an American journalist and author. She is the author of the best-selling novel ''The Deep End of the Ocean'', which was the first selection for Oprah's Book Club, on September 17, 1996.Kirkpatrick, David D. - "Oprah Will Curtail 'Book Club' Picks, And Authors Weep". - ''The New York Times''. - April 6, 2002. Other books by Mitchard include ''The Breakdown Lane'', ''Twelve Times Blessed'', ''Christmas, Present'', ''A Theory of Relativity'', ''The Most Wanted'', ''Cage of Stars'', ''No Time to Wave Goodbye'', ''Second Nature - A Love Story'', and ''Still Summer''. She is a professor of creative writing at the Vermont College of Fine Arts. Biography Born and raised in a suburb of Chicago, Illinois, Mitchard's father was a plumber, from Newfoundland, Canada, and her mother a hardware store clerk, a competitive horsewoman, and a member of the Lac du Flambeau Chippewa Cree tribe. She studied creative writing for three semesters under Mark Costello (author), Mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ray Bradbury
Ray Douglas Bradbury (; August 22, 1920June 5, 2012) was an American author and screenwriter. One of the most celebrated 20th-century American writers, he worked in a variety of modes, including fantasy, science fiction, horror, mystery, and realistic fiction. Bradbury wrote many works and is widely known by the general public for his novel ''Fahrenheit 451'' (1953) and his short-story collections ''The Martian Chronicles'' (1950) and ''The Illustrated Man'' (1951). Most of his best known work is speculative fiction, but he also worked in other genres, such as the coming of age novel ''Dandelion Wine'' (1957) and the fictionalized memoir ''Green Shadows, White Whale'' (1992). He also wrote and consulted on screenplays and television scripts, including ''Moby Dick'' and ''It Came from Outer Space''. Many of his works were adapted into television and film productions as well as comic books. ''The New York Times'' called Bradbury "the writer most responsible for bringing modern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
There Will Come Soft Rains (short Story)
"There Will Come Soft Rains" is a science fiction short story by author Ray Bradbury written as a chronicle about a lone house that stands intact in a California city that has otherwise been obliterated by a nuclear bomb, and then is destroyed in a fire caused by a windstorm. The title is from a 1918 poem of the same name by Sara Teasdale that was published during World War I and the Spanish flu pandemic. First published in 1950 about future catastrophes in two different versions in two separate publications, a one-page short story in ''Collier's'' magazine and a chapter of the fix-up novel ''The Martian Chronicles'', the author regarded it as "the one story that represents the essence of Ray Bradbury". Bradbury's foresight in recognizing the potential for the complete self-destruction of humans by nuclear war in the work was recognized by the Pulitzer Prize Board in conjunction with awarding a Special Citation in 2007 that noted, "While time has (mostly) quelled the lik ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
