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Bells, The| Poem for orchestra, chorus, and soloists by Rachmaninov, Op. 35 (text by Edgar Allan Poe, translation by K Balmont); it was composed in 1913 and first performed in St Petersburg, Russia, on 30 November 1913. The work was revived in 1936 and performed in Sheffield, England, on 21 October 1936, conducted by Henry Wood. |
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| If one announce one's wisdom with bells, the shopmen in the market-place will out-jingle it with pennies! The city's hum and buzz, the clinking of capstans, the ringing of bells, the barking of dogs, the clattering of wheels, tingled in the listening ear. And the third of these speech-improving Bells, the inventor of the telephone, inherited the peculiar genius of his fathers, both inventive and rhetorical, to such a degree that as a boy he had constructed an artificial skull, from gutta-percha and India rubber, which, when enlivened by a blast of air from a hand-bellows, would actually pronounce several words in an almost human manner. |