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Soundings are the poems of a lifetime, written by a woman whose life has been dedicated to music, to family and to travel. For over 30 years, Joanne Regenhardt enjoyed a full career as a professional singer of the classical repertoire. About the relationship of her passion for music to poetry, she says: "The musician becomes engrossed in meters and rhythms, harmonies, timing, pauses and silences. Along with learning the musical score, he or she discovers the intent of the composer, the poetry of the composition. In my case, I felt similar meters, rhythms and harmonies in the life around me and felt a need to express them in poetry. Soundings is divided into six sections: Writing Poems, Sound...
When Ernst Krenek's opera Jonny spielt auf (Jonny plays on) opened in Leipzig in 1927, it became an instant and spectacular success. Performed in over a hundred cities and translated into a dozen languages, it became the most popular opera of this century. And Austrian-born Krenek, easily one of this century's most prolific major composers, became a wealthy man. Ten years later, however, he found himself a destitute refugee, fleeing to the United States as Hitler's troops invaded Austria. His work, always avant-garde, had become increasingly political; Hitler banned it and labeled Krenek a "cultural Bolshevist." The composer endured long periods of hardship and neglect before his music, whic...
Joel B. Miller was born in 1811 near Springs, Pennsylvania. He married Catherine Brenneman (181301870), daughter of Daniel Brenneman and Maria Bender. They had eleven children. He died in 1885. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Pennsylvania.
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San Diego Magazine gives readers the insider information they need to experience San Diego-from the best places to dine and travel to the politics and people that shape the region. This is the magazine for San Diegans with a need to know.
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