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The worst has happened. A flag near the remainsof a camp: The Norwegians are first at the Pole.Great God! this is an awful place. Well, we have turnedour back on ambition and must face 800 miles of solid dragging.Evans shows signs of being played out; his woundssuppurate, broken down in brain, frostbitten,a wild look in his eyes. He died quietly.Beautiful day--too beautiful. We talk of little but food;Amongst ourselves we are unendingly cheerful, butwhat each man feels in his heart I can only guess.Oates lame this morning. We cannot help each other,can only say 'God help us!' and plod on our weary way.Should this be found I want these facts recorded.Oates proposed we leave him. That we could not do.He said, 'I am just going outside and may be some time.'Every day we have been ready tostart for our depot 11 miles away,but outside the tent it remainsa scene of whirling drift.My thoughts are for my wife and boy.Had we lived, I should have had a taleto tell of the hardihood, endurance,and courage of my companionswhich would have stirred the heart....I do not think I can write more.For God's sake look after our people.Send this diary to my wife.Send this diary to my widow.What lots I could tell you of this journey.
THE COMPOSERSPerry Goldstein (born 1952 in New York City, New York) studied at the University of Illinois,UCLA, and Columbia University, from which he received a doctorate in music composition in 1986.His principal composition teachers at Illinois were Herbert Brün, Ben Johnston, and Paul Zonn; atColumbia, Chou Wen-Chung and Mario Davidovsky.A composer of vivid, high-intensity music, Goldstein’s various works have been called “an I-dareyou-contraption”(Total Absorption by Fanfare Magazine), “kinetic, percussive [and] pummeling” (OfPoints Fixed and Fluid by The New York Times), “a raw-boned tour-de-force” (Blow! by the BuffaloNews), and demonstrating “consummate structural artistry” (Motherless Child Variations by MusicVision CD Spotlight).He has written works for such notable performers as Juilliard Quartet cellist Joel Krosnick andpianist Gilbert Kalish, Emerson String Quartet violinist Phillip Setzer, pianist Eliza Garth, theAurelia, Prism, and Capitol Saxophone Quartets, bass clarinetist Michael Lowenstern, saxophonistsCory Barnfield, Arno Bornkamp, Joseph Lulloff, and Kenneth Tse, the Escher String Quartet, and theUnited States Military Academy Band. His works appear on 17 compact discs, on the Albany,Bridge, Centaur, Challenge, Crystal, Innova, Mark Masters, New Dynamic, New World, UnitedStates Military, and Vanguard labels. He is published by Reed Music and Global Music FacilitiesPublications.Since 1992, he has been a member of the music faculty of the Stony Brook where he was theinaugural Director of the College of Arts, Culture, and Humanities and serves as Chairman of theDepartment of Music. He teaches music theory, analysis, musicianship, and composition.Stephen Andrew Taylor is currently Associate Professor of Composition at the University of Illinois.His music often explores boundaries between art and science. His first orchestra commission,Unapproachable Light, inspired by images from the Hubble Space Telescope and the New Testament,was premiered by the American Composers Orchestra in 1996 in Carnegie Hall. Other worksinclude the chamber quartet Quark Shadows, commissioned by the Chicago Symphony andpremiered in 2001; and Seven Memorials, a 32-minute cycle for piano inspired by the work of MayaLin and premiered by Gloria Cheng in Los Angeles, 2004; she also performed the work atTanglewood in 2006. The Machine Awakes, a CD of his orchestra, chamber and electronic music wasreleased in 2010 on Albany Records; and Paradises Lost, a new opera based on a novella by Ursula K.Le Guin, was premiered in Portland, Oregon and at the University of Illinois in 2012.Besides composing for traditional instruments, Taylor also works with live electronics in pieces suchas Agoraphobia for flute, harp and electronics, premiered by Jonathan Keeble and Ann Yeung inMontreal in 2009. He is also active as a conductor with the Illinois Modern Ensemble, and as a
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