‘With Walden in Its Midst’: Henry David Thoreau, Walden Pond, and the Walden Woods Project

Patriquin, Donald (1938--)

Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism ◽

10.4324/9781135000356-rem590-1 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Jeremy Strachan

Keyword(s):

Cultural Awareness ◽

Henry David Thoreau ◽

William Blake ◽

Folk Songs ◽

String Orchestra ◽

Choral Repertoire ◽

The World ◽

Global Peace ◽

Songs Of Innocence ◽

Walden Pond

Donald Patriquin is a composer known chiefly for contributing to choral repertoire in Canada. Born in Sherbrooke, Quebec, he studied composition as a teenager with Jean Papineau-Couture, and later in Montreal with Istvan Anhalt, as well as in Toronto with John Weinzweig. Patriquin’s prolific catalogue of work includes expanded tonal settings of texts by Shakespeare (A Lover and His Lass, 1968), Henry David Thoreau (Reflections on Walden Pond for choir, violin, cello, and piano, 2000), and William Blake (Songs of Innocence for choirs, harp, and flute, 1984). His main compositional activities have focused on arranging folk songs from around the world, especially various regions of Canada. Representative of these are Six Songs of Early Canada (1980) and Six Noëls Anciens (1982), which are frequently performed. Patriquin’s many compositions for children’s choirs make use of non-lexical sounds in imitating the soundscape, drawing on the timbral, percussive, and expressive possibilities of voices. Of his non-vocal works, Hangman’s Reel for fiddle and string orchestra (1978), commissioned by the Grand Ballets Canadiens, remains one of the most significant, assembling jigs, reels, airs, and other vernacular dances into a thirty-minute suite. Issues of cultural awareness, humanitarianism, and global peace provide thematic foundations for Patriquin’s music around 1985.

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Birdfeeders: What to Consider When Selecting

EDIS ◽

10.32473/edis-uw192-2003 ◽

1969 ◽

Vol 2003 (16) ◽

Author(s):

Mark E. Hostetler ◽

Martin B. Main ◽

Maena Voigt

Keyword(s):

Henry David Thoreau ◽

Cooperative Extension Service ◽

Extension Service ◽

University Of Florida ◽

Wildlife Ecology ◽

Key Points ◽

History Of ◽

Bird Feeder ◽

Backyard Birds ◽

Walden Pond

The history of birdfeeding in America dates back to 1845, when Henry David Thoreau fed birds at Walden Pond. In 1926, the first commercially made birdfeeder, designed for hummingbirds, went on the market. Today, more than 50 million Americans put out a billion pounds of birdfeed each year. Before placing a feeder in your backyard, you should think about a few key points. This document contains suggestions that are useful guidelines. The BEST way to determine how to attract birds to your feeders is to experiment. This document is WEC 162, one of a series of the Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. First published September 2003. WEC 162/UW192: Attracting Backyard Birds: Bird Feeder Selection (ufl.edu)

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Walden

10.1093/owc/9780199538065.001.0001 ◽

2008 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Henry David Thoreau

Keyword(s):

Social Economic ◽

Henry David Thoreau ◽

Natural World ◽

Hard Work ◽

Close Attention ◽

North West ◽

Home Town ◽

The North ◽

Solitary Living ◽

Walden Pond

‘The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.’ In 1845 Henry David Thoreau left his home town of Concord, Massachusetts to begin a new life alone, in a rough hut he built himself a mile and a half away on the north-west shore of Walden Pond. Walden is Thoreau’s classic autobiographical account of this experiment in solitary living, his refusal to play by the rules of hard work and the accumulation of wealth and above all the freedom it gave him to adapt his living to the natural world around him. This new edition of Walden traces the sources of Thoreau’s reading and thinking and considers the author in the context of his birthplace and his sense of its history - social, economic and natural. In addition, an ecological appendix provides modern identifications of the myriad plants and animals to which Thoreau gave increasingly close attention as he became acclimatized to his life in the woods by Walden Pond.

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Presidential Address: Contending Narratives—The Political Life of the Indian Epics

The Journal of Asian Studies ◽

10.2307/2058541 ◽

1991 ◽

Vol 50 (4) ◽

pp. 783-792 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Barbara Stoler Miller

Keyword(s):

New Orleans ◽

Presidential Address ◽

Henry David Thoreau ◽

Fiftieth Anniversary ◽

East India Company ◽

Political Life ◽

The Political ◽

Asian Studies ◽

Walden Pond ◽

The Ganges

Unlike edward cameron dimock, Henry David Thoreau never traveled to India, but he imagined Yankee merchant ships transporting ice blocks from Walden Pond to New Orleans and Calcutta, where the pure Walden water would mingle with the sacred water of the Ganges. Less romantically, one can imagine the Walden ice mingling with British gin and tonic in clubs of the East India Company. In our own time, Ed Dimock has brought America and India together in more significant ways. I'm delighted that he is in New Orleans today—honoring him seems a wonderful way of celebrating ourselves on this fiftieth anniversary of the Association for Asian Studies.

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