• Chester Simon Kallman (January 7, 1921 – January 18, 1975) was an American poet, librettist, and translator, best known for collaborating with W. H. Auden...
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    Progress (1951, with Chester Kallman, libretto for an opera by Igor Stravinsky). Elegy for Young Lovers (1961, with Chester Kallman, libretto for an opera...
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  • Let Him Go Chester E. Holifield (1903–1995), United States Representative from California Chester Kallman (1921–1975), American writer Chester Ludgin (1925–2003)...
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  • Progress (1951, with Chester Kallman, libretto for an opera by Igor Stravinsky). Elegy for Young Lovers (1956, with Chester Kallman, libretto for an opera...
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  • Brent Chester Kallman (1921–1975), American poet, librettist and translator Craig Kallman, American businessperson and music executive Dick Kallman (1933–1980)...
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    epilogue by Igor Stravinsky. The libretto, written by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman, is based loosely on the eight paintings and engravings A Rake's Progress...
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    while visiting the father of his lover Chester Kallman in New Jersey (according to a communication of Kallman to friends, see Edward Mendelson, Later...
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    joined Auden to write the libretto in November 1947; American writer Chester Kallman was later brought in to assist Auden. Stravinsky finished the opera...
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  • 1951 opera The Rake's Progress, with a libretto by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman, is loosely based on the story from Hogarth's paintings. In 1961, David...
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  • from the 8th to the 13th centuries, in translations by W. H. Auden, Chester Kallman, Howard Mumford Jones, Kenneth H. Jackson and Seán Ó Faoláin. The Hermit...
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    acts by Hans Werner Henze to an English libretto by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman. The opera was first performed in a German translation by Louis, Prince...
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  • Memory of Sigmund Freud", and other poems. The book is dedicated to Chester Kallman. John Fuller, W. H. Auden: A Commentary (1999) Edward Mendelson, Early...
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    in 1965 by Hans Werner Henze. The libretto was by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman. John Buller composed an opera Bakxai (The Bacchae) which was produced...
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    music by Hans Werner Henze to an English libretto by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman, after Euripides's The Bacchae. The conflict in the opera is between...
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    (composed 1964–65, premiered 1966), to a libretto by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman, is the most famous opera composed by Hans Werner Henze. In the 1996...
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  • Athens. Matt and Mary are days away from death. Since their friends, Chester Kallman and Maria Mitsotáki, have died in "the previous year",: 101  James...
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  • and Edward James. It was translated into English by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman and more recently by Michael Feingold. It was the last major collaboration...
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    Quixote in 1966. opera Love's Labour's Lost (libretto by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman) was composed in 1971 and performed in 1973. Nabokov, Nicolas (1951)...
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  • Young Lovers (Henze). Henze asked his librettists, W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman, for a scenario that would inspire him to compose "tender, beautiful...
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  • Isherwood in New York attended by John Berryman, and at which Auden met Chester Kallman for the first time. MacNeice also met the writer Eleanor Clark in New...
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  • Holmes Robert Horan Rolfe Humphries Randall Jarrell Robinson Jeffers Chester Kallman Stanley Kunitz Janet Lewis Vachel Lindsay Robert Lowell Phyllis McGinley...
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    center of Music and Drama, for a three-act opera to a libretto by Chester Kallman based on a story by Boccaccio, to be titled The Tuscan Players. Intended...
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    was composed by Nicolas Nabokov, with a libretto by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman, and first performed in 1973. In the summer of 2013, The Public Theater...
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  • poet Marilyn Hacker, poet Aaron Hamburger, novelist Max Jacob, poet Chester Kallman, poet and librettist Eva Kotchever, also known as Eve Addams, Polish...
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    miniature score is by Christopher Hassall. The one in the full score is by Chester Kallman.[citation needed] Another singing translation is that made by John...
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    Theatre Festival New York Musical Theatre Festival February House Chester Kallman New York Stage and Film Off-Broadway 2012 Carrie Stokes/cover Billy...
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  • Labour's Lost is an opera by Nicolas Nabokov, written by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman, based on Shakespeare's play of the same name. It was first performed...
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  • poem in a letter to Chester Kallman in December 1948, as an addition to the "Auden Corpus". Auden jokingly suggesting that Kallman write a similar poem...
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  • Research Center of the University of Texas at Austin. W.H. Auden and Chester Kallman Collection, 1929-1976 is housed at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research...
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    he was part of a circle of writers that included James Merrill and Chester Kallman. Rachel Hadas, who also lived in Athens and met Ansen in 1969, described...
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