"You and I must, in early July, to go along with Hollywood . We can take a ship from London, direct but slow, San Francisco, and then fly to Los Angeles in an hour or so more. Out of Hollywood, in a big comfortable house in the hills, we will spend a month with Stravinsky . We have just seen in Boston and we decided to work and - for me - so simple that I can write the book in time that we remain there. It is not simple optimism: the I can do and will be done. In advance, give me £ 500 and tickets, first class, and then another 500 pounds - and then the copyright to the death. "
So wrote Dylan Thomas's wife Caitlin in May 1953 , and death that, at a time of renewed confidence, he felt so far away, actually it was around the corner waiting for him. This was one of the many letters in which Thomas sought to reassure his wife, especially when he was abroad, as American tour in the last years of his life, let alone in Wales to deal with debts and raising children. loved Caitlin Thomas, loved her dearly, but a love child and irresponsible, a betrayal of the other needed to remind you, perhaps to remind himself, his feelings for her, telling her to flush and his designs for the sign and made promises of new, huge profits, promises that he believed he alone now. Caitlin knew that the proceeds of U.S. readings and any other statutory or publication would never have had time to get to her; alcohol dominated the life of Thomas now more than any love or ambition.
The proposal to which the poet mentioned in the letter, however, seemed an opportunity not to be missed Dylan Thomas and Igor Stravinsky had gathered, for what that will be their first and only meeting, the Copley-Plaza Hotel in Boston , where the composer was staying, May 22, 1953. "As soon as I saw him," recalls Stravinsky in his Conversations, "I realized that the only thing possible was to love him. He was nervous, however, smoking a cigarette after another, and complained of pain caused by gout ... The color and swelling of his face and his skin revealed the abuse of alcohol. " Together they talked about writing a work on "a new creation of the world", in which one man and one woman were the only survivors or arrived from outer space on an Earth devastated and began a new course, starting from the creation of a new language, which was perhaps the most tickling the fancy of Thomas. In
June 1953 he returned to Laugharne, Wales, Thomas writes a letter enthusiastically by the composer says he has many ideas for the libretto of the opera - "good, bad or chaotic" - that does not send can write just fine (he had broken his arm before leaving New York), and refers to the autumn visit to California. Stravinsky was in Hollywood, where he waited for a long telegram announcing the arrival of Thomas: only one will receive the November 9, announcing the death of the great poet. "All I could do was cry," recalls Stravinsky. "It was a blow terrible for me as for all those who knew the genius of Dylan Thomas. "
He decided in the coming months to compose a work still in memory of the poet, and did it using the text of the poem more than any other lent itself to There, the touching "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night." The work, written for string quartet, four trombones and tenor, and entitled In memoriam Dylan Thomas , was completed in the spring of 1954 and performed for the first time in Los Angeles on September 20, 1954 . Aldous Huxley gave a commemorative speech.
Today, the anniversary of the death of Thomas, propose again listening to this work.
So wrote Dylan Thomas's wife Caitlin in May 1953 , and death that, at a time of renewed confidence, he felt so far away, actually it was around the corner waiting for him. This was one of the many letters in which Thomas sought to reassure his wife, especially when he was abroad, as American tour in the last years of his life, let alone in Wales to deal with debts and raising children. loved Caitlin Thomas, loved her dearly, but a love child and irresponsible, a betrayal of the other needed to remind you, perhaps to remind himself, his feelings for her, telling her to flush and his designs for the sign and made promises of new, huge profits, promises that he believed he alone now. Caitlin knew that the proceeds of U.S. readings and any other statutory or publication would never have had time to get to her; alcohol dominated the life of Thomas now more than any love or ambition.
The proposal to which the poet mentioned in the letter, however, seemed an opportunity not to be missed Dylan Thomas and Igor Stravinsky had gathered, for what that will be their first and only meeting, the Copley-Plaza Hotel in Boston , where the composer was staying, May 22, 1953. "As soon as I saw him," recalls Stravinsky in his Conversations, "I realized that the only thing possible was to love him. He was nervous, however, smoking a cigarette after another, and complained of pain caused by gout ... The color and swelling of his face and his skin revealed the abuse of alcohol. " Together they talked about writing a work on "a new creation of the world", in which one man and one woman were the only survivors or arrived from outer space on an Earth devastated and began a new course, starting from the creation of a new language, which was perhaps the most tickling the fancy of Thomas. In
June 1953 he returned to Laugharne, Wales, Thomas writes a letter enthusiastically by the composer says he has many ideas for the libretto of the opera - "good, bad or chaotic" - that does not send can write just fine (he had broken his arm before leaving New York), and refers to the autumn visit to California. Stravinsky was in Hollywood, where he waited for a long telegram announcing the arrival of Thomas: only one will receive the November 9, announcing the death of the great poet. "All I could do was cry," recalls Stravinsky. "It was a blow terrible for me as for all those who knew the genius of Dylan Thomas. "
He decided in the coming months to compose a work still in memory of the poet, and did it using the text of the poem more than any other lent itself to There, the touching "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night." The work, written for string quartet, four trombones and tenor, and entitled In memoriam Dylan Thomas , was completed in the spring of 1954 and performed for the first time in Los Angeles on September 20, 1954 . Aldous Huxley gave a commemorative speech.
Today, the anniversary of the death of Thomas, propose again listening to this work.
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