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Darius Green and His Flying Machine (1869)
poem by
John Townsend Trowbridge
(1827 - 1916)
John Townsend Trowbridge, American poet
Boston and New York; Houghton, Mifflin Company, 1910: John Townsend Trowbridge's poem Darius Green and His Flying Machine, written more than forty years ago in 1869, is now published for the first time in book form, with illustrations by Wallace Goldsmith.
The present intense and widespread interest in aviation promises a ready audience among the new generation for Mr. Trowbridge's very amusing account of the first American flying-machine. This poem immediately attained popularity on its first appearance and has been recited and read in public from one end of the country to the other. Its hero was a youth born ahead of his time. "Darius was clearly of the opinion, that the air is also man's dominion, And that, with paddle or fin or pinion, We soon or late Shall navigate The azure as now we sail the sea."
When Mr. Trowbridge wrote the poem he little dreamed that he himself would ever see men fly successfully. Yet from his description of this flying machine and in Mr. Goldsmith's clever drawings we see an embryonic monoplane, which is not unlike Mr. Grahame-White's Bleriot. The greatest difference is in the result, for with Darius "Wal, I like flyin' well enough," He said; "but the' ain't sich a thunderin' sight O' fun in't when ye come to light."
The present intense and widespread interest in aviation promises a ready audience among the new generation for Mr. Trowbridge's very amusing account of the first American flying-machine. This poem immediately attained popularity on its first appearance and has been recited and read in public from one end of the country to the other. Its hero was a youth born ahead of his time. "Darius was clearly of the opinion, that the air is also man's dominion, And that, with paddle or fin or pinion, We soon or late Shall navigate The azure as now we sail the sea."
When Mr. Trowbridge wrote the poem he little dreamed that he himself would ever see men fly successfully. Yet from his description of this flying machine and in Mr. Goldsmith's clever drawings we see an embryonic monoplane, which is not unlike Mr. Grahame-White's Bleriot. The greatest difference is in the result, for with Darius "Wal, I like flyin' well enough," He said; "but the' ain't sich a thunderin' sight O' fun in't when ye come to light."
Darius Green and His Flying Machine (1988)
music by
Elam Ray Sprenkle
In 1988 Elam Sprenkle received a commission from Frances Dawson and the Columbia Pro Cantare to compose a work for multiple choirs, soprano soloists, piano, and brass quintet.
Elam Sprenkle's Darius Green and His Flying Machine was premiered on March 4, 1989 at Glenelg Country School in Ellicott City, Maryland. This concert, conducted by Frances Dawson, was performed by the Columbia Pro Cantare, the Glenelg Country Middle and Secondary School choirs, soprano soloists Laura Schwartz and Margaret Wesley, Eileen Cornett, piano and the Annapolis Brass Quintet: Robert Suggs and David Cran, trumpet; Arthur Brooks, horn; Wayne Wells, trombone, and Robert Posten, bass trombone.
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World Premiere Performance
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Elam Sprenkle's
Darius Green and His Flying Machine
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music by
Elam Ray Sprenkle
In 1988 Elam Sprenkle received a commission from Frances Dawson and the Columbia Pro Cantare to compose a work for multiple choirs, soprano soloists, piano, and brass quintet.
Elam Sprenkle's Darius Green and His Flying Machine was premiered on March 4, 1989 at Glenelg Country School in Ellicott City, Maryland. This concert, conducted by Frances Dawson, was performed by the Columbia Pro Cantare, the Glenelg Country Middle and Secondary School choirs, soprano soloists Laura Schwartz and Margaret Wesley, Eileen Cornett, piano and the Annapolis Brass Quintet: Robert Suggs and David Cran, trumpet; Arthur Brooks, horn; Wayne Wells, trombone, and Robert Posten, bass trombone.
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World Premiere Performance
of
Elam Sprenkle's
Darius Green and His Flying Machine
(Duration: 27:01)
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The score and parts for Elam Sprenkle's Darius Green and His Flying Machine, along with the entire ABQ music library, are available for research and performance from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music Library.
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The score and parts for Elam Sprenkle's Darius Green and His Flying Machine, along with the entire ABQ music library, are available for research and performance from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music Library.
For direct access to the Annapolis Brass Quintet Special Collection @ Oberlin
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