High flight Poem by: John Gillespie Magee Music composed by Shauna Beesley Op. 39, Melbourne, Australia 8/28/24 Premiered by Amber Estenson, soprano Brockton, Massachusetts 10/7/24 Yesterday I premiered a piece of music written specifically for me, to be sung at my best friend’s father’s funeral. The lyrics are her father’s favorite poem, High Flight, by John Gillespie Magee (yes, he was a pilot!) It was written by my voice teacher that I studied with while living in Switzerland, whom is respons
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75 years ago canadian Spitfire pilot, John Gillespie Magee wrote 'High Flight' - now the sonnet is recognised all over the world as the aviators' poem | BBC Breakfast
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75 years ago, John Gillespie Magee Jr penned the poem "High Flight" a few months before he died in a mid-air collision whilst out flying his Spitfire. Nowadays his poem has become a favourite of airmen around the world and has been recited by actors, presidents, astronauts and many more. It has become the official poem for a number of air forces around the world. The famous first line "Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth." are inscribed on Magee's grave in Scopwick cemetery where he is b
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High Flight By John Gillespie Magee, Jr Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth, And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth Of sun-split clouds, --and done a hundred things You have not dreamed of --Wheeled and soared and swung High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung My eager craft through footless halls of air... Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue I've topped the wind-swept heig
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