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Written for large orchestra and inspired by Madame Helena Blavatsky’s Theosophical Society, the symphonic tone poem is a fantastical transformation of the Greek myth of Prometheus, who steals fire from the gods.
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Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2024
Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott in 'All of Us Strangers'
| Credit: Searchlight Pictures
Haigh's film is more a tone poem on loss and love than a strictly linear narrative.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 3 Sep. 2023
This 60-member community orchestra will celebrate its 50th anniversary with a performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5, Vivaldi’s Concerto for 4 Violins and the Israeli tone poem EMEK.
—The San Diego Union-Tribune Staff, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Jan. 2024
Margareth Olin’s new documentary Songs of Earth, Norway’s selection for best international feature at next year’s Academy Awards, is surely a tone poem and equally surely a meditation on all manner of things, from our relationship with nature to the parent-child bond.
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Nov. 2023
Organ fans will also have opportunities to experience it in an orchestral setting this season, first in October when maestro Gianandrea Noseda leads a performance of Ottorino Respighi’s three beloved Roman tone poems, two of which prominently feature pipe organ.
—Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 1 July 2023
Sibelius’ tone poem evokes a legend from the Finnish national epic The Kalevala.
—Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 28 Apr. 2023
The film, directed by Tim Sutton, is a sort of cinematic tone poem in which the music is somewhere out there, in the sounds of speaking voices and preachers’ invocations and gospel choirs, train whistles and traffic and machine noises, jukeboxes and car radios, birdsong and the wind in the trees.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2021
But what could have been written off as juvenilia took on new life as a tone poem and gave us one of the greatest English horn solos in the repertoire.
—Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 17 Feb. 2023
Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2024
Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott in 'All of Us Strangers'
| Credit: Searchlight Pictures
Haigh's film is more a tone poem on loss and love than a strictly linear narrative.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 3 Sep. 2023
This 60-member community orchestra will celebrate its 50th anniversary with a performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5, Vivaldi’s Concerto for 4 Violins and the Israeli tone poem EMEK.
—The San Diego Union-Tribune Staff, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Jan. 2024
Margareth Olin’s new documentary Songs of Earth, Norway’s selection for best international feature at next year’s Academy Awards, is surely a tone poem and equally surely a meditation on all manner of things, from our relationship with nature to the parent-child bond.
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Nov. 2023
Organ fans will also have opportunities to experience it in an orchestral setting this season, first in October when maestro Gianandrea Noseda leads a performance of Ottorino Respighi’s three beloved Roman tone poems, two of which prominently feature pipe organ.
—Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 1 July 2023
Sibelius’ tone poem evokes a legend from the Finnish national epic The Kalevala.
—Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 28 Apr. 2023
The film, directed by Tim Sutton, is a sort of cinematic tone poem in which the music is somewhere out there, in the sounds of speaking voices and preachers’ invocations and gospel choirs, train whistles and traffic and machine noises, jukeboxes and car radios, birdsong and the wind in the trees.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2021
But what could have been written off as juvenilia took on new life as a tone poem and gave us one of the greatest English horn solos in the repertoire.
—Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 17 Feb. 2023
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1902, in the meaning defined above
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