“The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies
and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that
something is right in the world."
AUTHOR: Leonard Bernstein
“Artists devote their lives to the creation of beauty for the rest of us to enjoy.”
COMPOSER
VAUGHAN-WILLIAMS
Sinfonia Antartica
Vaughan Williams provided the music for the film Scott of the Antarctic in 1947, and was so inspired by the subject that
he incorporated much of the music into a symphony he called Sinfonia Antartica ("Antarctic Symphony") his seventh Symphony.
he incorporated much of the music into a symphony he called Sinfonia Antartica ("Antarctic Symphony") his seventh Symphony.
Prelude:
To suffer woes which hope thinks infinite,Andante maestoso
To forgive wrongs darker than death or night,
To defy power which seems omnipotent,
Neither to change, nor falter, nor repent:
This … is to be
Good, great and joyous, beautiful and free,
This is alone life, joy, empire and victory.
Shelley: Prometheus Unbound
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Joseph Severn:
Posthumous Portrait of Shelley
Writing Prometheus Unbound, 1845
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Scherzo:
There go the shipsModerato
and there is that Leviathan
whom thou hast made to take his pastime therein.
Psalm 104 : 26
Landscape:
Ye ice falls! Ye that from the mountain’s browLento
Adown enormous ravines slope amain—
Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty voice,
And stopped at once amid their maddest plunge!
Motionless torrents! Silent cataracts!
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| Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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| Chamonix Skyline |
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| Joseph Mallord William Turner The Mer de Glace, Chamonix, with Blair’s Hut |
Intermezzo:
Love, all alike, no season knows, nor climeAndante sostenuto
Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
Epilogue:
Alla marcia, moderato
(nontroppo allegro)
I do not regret this journey; we took risks, we
knew we took them, things have come out against
us, therefore we have no cause for complaint.
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| The Pocket Diary of Captain Robert Falcon Scott |
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| Paradise Bay, Antarctica |
Listening to Scott of the Antarctic Worksheet:
