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Poe’s Eureka in Dialogue #2

Posted on: January 11th, 2014 by Robert Michael Oliver

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Doug Fraser composes the music for Poe's Eureka. He also composed the music for the original stage play, Embodying Poe. On working with the music for that production, he wrote:

EUREKA!

INSPIRATION FOR THE MUSIC

"Eureka for me is Poe's speculation into the interrelationship between mind and universe. Poe draws connections that raise no contradiction with the most modern scientific thinking, yet his ideas flow effortlessly and … Continue reading the story "Poe’s Eureka in Dialogue #2"

Poe’s Eureka in Dialogue

Posted on: January 9th, 2014 by Robert Michael Oliver

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Yitna Firdyiwek directs Poe's Eureka. He, like the rest of the creative team, has a love for the art of filmmaking, and for the art of language making. We all marvel at Edgar Allan Poe's language in Eureka. He, also like the rest of us, is not fully at ease with the marketplaces of American culture.

He writes: "We … Continue reading the story "Poe’s Eureka in Dialogue"