{"product_id":"songs-from-the-palatine-anthology","title":"Songs from the Palatine Anthology","description":"\u003cp\u003eBob Hughes set these poems two years after arriving in Aptos CA to study with Lou Harrison. Within a short time, Harrison left for Asia on a Rockefeller Grant, not to return until July; so that Hughes began a concert series at the local coffee and book shop The Sticky Wicket. He programmed many contemporary music and music-theater works, including those of Harrison and himself. \u003cem\u003eSongs for the Palatine Anthology\u003c\/em\u003e had its premiere in this series.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDudley Fitts referred to his translations as English paraphrase, remarking in his Commentary to the volume \u003cem\u003eOne Hundred Poems from the Palatine Anthology\u003c\/em\u003e, that “there is scarcely a single adequate translation into English verse,” and, “I have deliberately chosen a system of irregular cadence, assonance, and the broken line.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe composer’s choice of poems suggests Harrison’s influence and milieu, with its turn of attention away from violence to nonviolence, and to the “two noble virtues.” These would be Lust and Greed, as described in a 1980 ode by Harrison, “Love is made of lust, of lust and tender prizing. And the thrust of love is born of beauty rising in a trust of joy.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e(Lou Harrison, \u003cem\u003eJoys and Perplexities,\u003c\/em\u003e 1992).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Robert Hughes","offers":[{"title":"Physical","offer_id":50101005091036,"sku":"ACA-HUGH-023","price":32.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital (PDF)","offer_id":50101005123804,"sku":"ACA-HUGH-023e","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0685\/8198\/2428\/files\/ACA-HUGH-023eHughes_SongsfromthePalatineAnthology-FullScore_Page_1.jpg?v=1776780363","url":"https:\/\/composers.com\/products\/songs-from-the-palatine-anthology","provider":"American Composers Alliance","version":"1.0","type":"link"}