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- 1999-2012 (Creation)
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0.009m³ (1 small box)
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Material relating to the Dylan Thomas Jazz Suite 'Twelve Poems', a piece commissioned by the Dylan Thomas Centre in Swansea to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the death of celebrated Swansea-born poet and writer Dylan Thomas. Composed by Jen Wilson, the Suite comprises jazz settings of twelve of Thomas's poems. The work was performed as part of the Sean Dunne Writer's Festival in Waterford, Ireland, at the 2003 Brecon Jazz Festival and at the Madog Center for Welsh Studies, Unviersity of Rio Grande, Ohio; however, funding for a tour of 'Twelve Poems' to mark the Dylan Thomas 100 centenary festival of 2014 was rejected. The material includes copious correspondence; funding applications; projected expenses; list of potential performance venues; enquiry sheets; press releases and previews; posters; concert programmes; performance contracts; and press cuttings; together with general material relating to Dylan Thomas and Dylan Thomas festivals.
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Dated correspondence and enquiry sheets arranged chronologically.
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- English
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www.thejazzmann.com/reviews/review/twelve-poems-the-dylan-thomas-suite/
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Some Welsh.
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The Anglo-Welsh poet and writer Dylan Marlais Thomas was born in Swansea on 27 October 1914. In 1937, he married Caitlin Macnamara and, the following year, the couple settled in the Welsh fishing village of Laugharne, where they would bring up their three children. Thomas gained a popular reputation during his lifetime, though he was obliged to augment his often insufficient and sporadic earnings with reading tours and radio broadcasts. A heavy drinker for much of his life, Thomas's health, never robust, deteriorated until, on a trip to New York City in November 1953, he fell into a coma, from which he did not recover. He was buried in St Martin's churchyard, Laugharne. One of the greatest poets of the twentieth century, Thomas is noted for his ingenious and original use of words and imagery, a probable legacy of the cynghanedd which characterises Welsh strict-metre poetry. Many of Thomas's works, which include the 'play for voices' Under Milk Wood, the autobiographical prose piece A Child's Christmas in Wales and poems such as Fern Hill and Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night, have become widely-known and well-loved favourites.
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- Thomas, Dylan, 1914-1953 (Subject)