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lilacs

n. (plural of lilac English)

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Lilacs (Walker)

Lilacs for voice and orchestra (or Lilacs) is a musical composition by George T. Walker, Jr. (born 1922) that was awarded the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Music. The work, scored for soprano soloist and orchestra, was the unanimous choice of the Pulitzer prize jury. Walker was the first African-American composer to be awarded the prize.

Walker set the 1865 poem, " When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd", by poet Walt Whitman. Whitman wrote the poem as an elegy to President Abraham Lincoln after his death on 15 April 1865. The composition was premiered by the Boston Symphony Orchestra on February 1, 1996. "The unanimous choice of the Music Jury, this passionate, and very American, musical composition...has a beautiful and evocative lyrical quality using words of Walt Whitman."

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The first to arrive, however, was an uninvited guest, for just as Bab and Betty sat down on the porch steps, in their stiff pink calico frocks and white ruffled aprons, to repose a moment before the party came in, a rustling was heard among the lilacs, and out stepped Alfred Tennyson Barlow, looking like a small Robin Hood, in a green blouse with a silver buckle on his broad belt, a feather in his little cap and a bow in his hand.

Under the Lilacs by Louisa May Alcott TO EMMA, IDA, CARL, AND LINA, Over The Sea, THIS LITTLE BOOK IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED BY THEIR NEW FRIEND AND SISTER, L.

This one was done in lilacs and blues, with large wicker chairs whose cushions matched the draperies and quilt, a king-size four-poster with the trademark stuffed frogs squatting near the pillow, and an oversized, glassed-in Jacuzzi standing in clear sight.

Karen, asked how she was, remarked about the lilacs nearing bloom, and, with a salute, continued on toward the Tannenwald house.

Up at dawn, she brought several of the first lilacs inside to perfume her kitchen.

A gentle breeze moved through the city and the lilacs around Lionkeep bloomed.

The Frontier Bar was still closed: butterflies danced nervously in the air, zigzagging across the road, and on the other side of the dirt area some big yellow swallowtails were sucking nectar from flowering lilacs beside the Pilar Cafe.

The two houses were well separated in those days by ghostly old lilacs and springy untrained stands of spirea.

She stood, absently delighting in the fragrance of pifion smoke mingling with that of lilacs and roses.

In a spasm, half awake, still asleep, he grabbed his pillow, burying his head in its softness, and, maybe because it smelled of lilacs, he clenched it tightly.

The scent of lilacs floated to Mike in a wave that colored his night with way too many bittersweet memories.

When she kicked off her high heels, the scent of lilacs wafted on the air.