His second opera, "Satyagraha" (1980), about Gandhi's philosophy of nonviolence, used a text drawn entirely from the "Bhagavad Gita," sung in Sanskrit.
Typical too of the Copland style are two major works that were written in time of war Lincoln Portrait (1942), for speaker and chorus, on a text drawn from Lincoln's speeches, and Letter from Home (1944), as well as the melodious Third Symphony (1946).
"Elektra" (1909), with a text drawn from the Hugo von Hofmannsthal play that gave a Freudian reinterpretation of Sophocles's drama of revenge, flies "like an arrow," says the director Jonathan Kent, who has staged both operas for the Mariinsky Theater in St . Petersburg "and with the right Elektra is sure to hit the target".
Engagement is the way that writers explicitly acknowledge the presence of their readers in a text, drawing them in through readermention, personal asides, appeals to shared knowledge, questions and directives.
A text drawing by Frederick Weston strikes a note of 1960s uplift.
Two women and a man wind seamlessly through a stage space surrounded by large painted leaves and greenery in "Man Suit e)." The trio is set to music from spaghetti westerns and James Bond movies and a taped text, drawn from Mark Twain's musings on Adam and Eve, that ends with the murmured warning to "keep away from that tree".
In Mr. Tyranny's text, drawn from a pyschologist's transcript, a hypnotized subject tells about seeing a crashed U.F.O. and its occupants on a military base in the West.
Maryse Jacobs, a Dutch choreographer who has performed with the Erick Hawkins Dance Company, will present her new "Grace," a high-energy, joyous trio about giving birth, and the opening section of "Desire, Desire!," an eveninglong dance with text drawn from Tennessee Williams's "Streetcar Named Desire".
Their marriage is celebrated in the exuberant number "In the Sounding," with its text drawn from an 1886 hymn that speaks of a joyful reunion in heaven "by the crystal sea".
Not that there is anything overtly pastoral, or for that matter, urban, in the text, drawn from a play of the same name by Peter Handke.
In order to evaluate our approach, we developed a new corpus, ImCor, which consists of a substantive portion of the Corel image data set associated with disambiguated text drawn from the SemCor corpus.
