When Cheryl Dring announced this Poetry forum, first to my mind was " Humor " by Yevgeny Yevtushenko (see below). Dmitri Shostakovich wrote his Symphony #13 around the poems of Yevtushenko including the symphony's title poem, Babi Yar ( http://boppin.com/poets/yy_babiyar.htm ). "Humor"...

Here are some from Sappho that have stuck with me since I read them in a college literature course. They're short and very sweet: 9: Although they are Only breath, words which I command are immortal 56: Day in, day out I hunger and I struggle 60: You may forget but Let me tell you this: someone in...

Every year, the Boston Pops Orchestra gives a July 4th Concert in the Bandshell on the Esplanade along the banks of the Charles River. You may have seen these concerts on TV. When I lived in Boston, I attended one of these concerts (actually, there are so many THOUSANDS of people on the 4th, I instead...

Share the moving moments you’ve experienced at the classical music concert hall or opera house! Back in about 1984 I heard that Luciano Pavarotti was going to appear at the free “Opera in the Park” concert in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park (I lived in The Haight). I wasn’t much into opera back...