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Ibert: Ballad of Reading Gaol; Bacchanale; Louisville Concerto; Honegger: Prelude for Aglavaine & Selysette; Suite Archaique.
IBERT: Ballad of Reading Gaol; Bacchanale; Louisville Concerto; HONEGGER: Prelude for Aglavaine & Selysette; Suite Archaique Louisville Orchestra/ Robert Whitney, Jorge Mester--First Edition 1906--67 minutes
Jacques Ibert's Ballade of Reading Gaol (1922) is based on the eponymous poem by Oscar Wilde. The subject, in Eugene Enrico's words, is "the horrors of prison life ... as a metaphor of the universal predicament of all mankind". I depicts the tedium of the prisoner marching through the yard, haunted with guilt over killing what he loved. A good part of this murky, often quiet music sounds like Miklos Rozsa's later anxiety-ridden score to Double Indemnity, with bits of Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe interspersed. II shows the mental anguish the prisoner must hold in. It opens nervously in the high strings over pizzicato basses, adds a doom-laden processional melody, and the two combine in a way that blends the earlier anxiety of Rozsa with Saint Saens's Danse Macabre. The movement scurries to a frenetic ending before the low strings create a bridge into III, a Debussian world, first of ghostly uncertainty and then quiet resignation.
Bacchanale opens with a combination of Khachaturian's Sabre Dance and Paul Creston. A broad, treading mid-section depicting the arrival of a major personage interrupts the proceedings, but as soon as the bigwig is settled the festivities resume to combine the two musical ideas.
Ibert wrote Louisville Concerto for the Louisville Orchestra. In the composer's words, "Pretty girls go by, horsemen gallop past. The orchestra pours out the warmth of the whisky, whilst a whiff of dream suddenly floats by." For all the references to horsemen, this jazzy pastiche of Offenbach, Grofe, and especially Gershwin comes off more as "A Frenchman in Louisville".
Arthur Honegger's Prelude for Aglavaine and Selysette (1917), a drama by Maeterlinck, was his first orchestral piece. It is a quiet, beautiful work that draws heavily on Debussy's Images and Jeux, though the young Honegger was more direct and ...
- Wilde's 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol.' (Oscar Wilde)
- The Explicator Nassaar, Christopher S. March 22, 1995 700+ words
...s Inferno on Wilde's The Ballad of Reading Gaol has not yet been noted, especially...confusingly, one thing remains constant: Reading Gaol is a horror, a terrifying hell that...that there are two circles or rings in Reading Gaol, one inhabited by the guardsman, who...
- Pit of shame; the real ballad of Reading Gaol.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News November 1, 2007 700+ words
...9781904380214 Pit of shame; the real ballad of Reading Gaol. Stokes, Anthony. Waterside Press...Stokes traces the history of England's Reading Gaol from the 16th century to the present...inmate, Oscar Wilde, whose "Ballad of Reading Gaol" is examined in detail. Distributed...
- Arrested development. (Notebook).(Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol)
- Magazine article from: New Criterion Dalrymple, Theodore June 1, 2002 700+ words
...mouthed Doctor" of The Ballad of Reading Gaol who ... gloats and notes Each new...always accompanied by The Ballad of Reading Gaol--not literally, for my own copy...architecturally, to the same era as Reading Gaol. It is of the panopticon type, so...
- In the Reading Gaol: Postmodernity, Texts, and History.
- Magazine article from: Style Wright, Terence R. December 22, 1995 700+ words
One of the problems of the label "Reader-Response Criticism" is that it covers a multitude of different approaches. Jane Tompkins's anthology, Reader-Response Criticism, originally published in 1980 but reprinted many times since then and still used as a course textbook, includes essays that could
- The stolen ballads of reading gaol Prison poems to be checked for plagiarism
- Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London DAVID BARRETT Home Affairs Correspondent August 9, 2009 700+ words
A PROJECT to encourage prisoners to write verse, with a pounds 25 prize, suffered a setback after some entrants proved not entirely honest. The prisoners' newspaper Inside Time, which is published by a charity, has introduced strict checks on its poetry page after some contributors copied out poems
- TONY PARSONS'S COLUMN: Let Archer write his best cellar.(Features)
- Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England) October 7, 2002 700+ words
...prison rules when he wrote his masterpiece, The Ballad Of Reading Gaol while banged up for offences against young men. Why this...McVicar to Nelson Mandela. And it is Oscar Wilde's Ballad Of Reading Gaol where you may catch a glimpse of the disgraced Lord Archer...
- Wilde.
- Magazine article from: Commonweal Alleva, Richard July 17, 1998 700+ words
...and reputation, the loss of his family, imprisonment in Reading Gaol. The well-researched, well-upholstered look of this...In the postprison scenes, Fry neatly conveys the toll Reading Gaol took, not by faking haggardness with make-up, but by...
- Ellmann and Wilde: Trans cendent art
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times Stephen Becker January 17, 1988 700+ words
...fascinates; De Profundis is in print, and "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" is in anthologies. More important - and here Ellmann is...Catholicism. His monument bears a quatrain from "The Ballad of Reading Gaol," but perhaps Wilde's real epitaph is Ellmann's last...
