
Harry Ransom Center Sassoon joins Oxford’s First World War Poetry Digital Archive, which includes holdings from the Ransom Center.
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'I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers. I believe that this War, on which I entered as a war of defence and liberation, has now become a war of aggression and conquest.'

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The most famous riot in classical music history was sparked at the premiere of the ballet The Rite of Spring, composed by Igor Stravinsky, choreographed by Vaslav Nijinsky, and premiered by the Ballets Russes.

Harry Ransom Center Come take "A Trip to the Moon" tonight at the Ransom Center.
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The Harry Ransom Center kicks off the Other Worlds Film Series with a collection of early silent films, including Georges Méliès's 1902 short A Trip to the Moon (Le Voyage dans la Lune), on Monday, November 9, at 7 p.m.

Harry Ransom Center Abracadabra! Hocus pocus! New book explores magic from the 1400s to the 1950s. Read excerpts and view images.
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The Ransom Center’s performing arts collection documents several popular entertainments, including vaudeville, the circus, pantomime, puppetry, and magic.

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Tennessee Williams will be inducted into the Poets’ Corner in The Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City, with celebrations beginning today.

Harry Ransom Center Why wait 17 years to see Halley’s Comet?
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The Ransom Center’s exhibition, Other Worlds: Rare Astronomical Works, offers visitors an early glimpse of Halley’s Comet, as rendered by Caroline Herschel in 1835–1836.

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Nathan Platte, a Musicology Ph.D. candidate at the University of Michigan, shares his experiences conducting research at the Ransom Center for his dissertation, “Musical Collaboration, Coercion, and Resistance in the Films of David O. Selznick, 1932–1948.”

Harry Ransom Center We’ve partnered with the Texas Book Festival on tomorrow’s panel with Colson Whitehead. Live webcast at 1 pm CST.
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The Harry Ransom Center and the Texas Book Festival present a panel on the post-racial American fiction landscape with Colson Whitehead on Saturday, October 31, at 1 p.m. in the Senate Chamber at the State Capitol. ...

Harry Ransom Center You survived “Reading Poe”! Posters of readers are online.
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Actor René Auberjonois is reading Edgar Allan Poe. Photo by Anthony Maddaloni.Image courtesy of Harry Ransom Center.

Harry Ransom Center Los Angeles Times’ “Culture Monster” touts exploring the Ransom Center’s online Poe holdings for Halloween.
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Should the spirits move you to celebrate Halloween or Day of the Dead, arts offerings in the L.A. area abound, from the mildly scary to the incredibly creepy. Culture Monster has scared up a lucky 13. 1. THEATER OF THE...

Harry Ransom Center Explore the humor behind Mozart's "A Musical Joke."
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The Ransom Center houses what is believed to be the earliest surviving manuscript of “A Musical Joke” and a copy of the 1856 second edition, one of only two known copies in the world.

Harry Ransom Center This congressman makes sure Poe has a voice in Washington.
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In a "Music from the Collections" event, University of Texas at Austin Professor Robert Freeman presents "Can You Tell a Joke with Music?" featuring works by Emmanuel Chabrier, Claude Debussy, Joseph Haydn, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Freeman explores the connection between words and music, examining not only the relat...ionship between a text and the music that sets it, but the potential use of words as a way of bringing the audience to the music. Freeman looks closely at Chabrier's "Souvenirs de Munich," Debussy's "Golliwog's Cakewalk," Haydn's "The Joke Quartet," and Mozart's "A Musical Joke."
Freeman will be joined by Michael Schneider, a distinguished pianist from San Angelo and a Doctor of Musical Arts candidate in the University's Butler School of Music, for the performance of the Chabrier piece.
Seating is free, but limited. View a live webcast of this event starting at approximately 7 p.m. C.S.T. on Thursday, October 29, at http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/webcast.
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Freeman explores the connection between words and music, examining not only the relat...ionship between a text and the music that sets it, but the potential use of words as a way of bringing the audience to the music. Freeman looks closely at Chabrier's "Souvenirs de Munich," Debussy's "Golliwog's Cakewalk," Haydn's "The Joke Quartet," and Mozart's "A Musical Joke."
Freeman will be joined by Michael Schneider, a distinguished pianist from San Angelo and a Doctor of Musical Arts candidate in the University's Butler School of Music, for the performance of the Chabrier piece.
Seating is free, but limited. View a live webcast of this event starting at approximately 7 p.m. C.S.T. on Thursday, October 29, at http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/webcast.
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Time:7:00PM Thursday, October 29th
Location:Jessen Auditorium on The University of Texas at Austin campus

Harry Ransom Center Poe isn't getting stiff-armed by this guy.
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