wsc 2025 art, music, and literature pieces

Ode I. 11” (23 BCE)

Horace

“The Second Coming” (1919)

William Butler Yeats

“Fire and Ice” (1920)

Robert Frost

“The Future—never spoke” (1921)

Emily Dickinson

The Fortune Teller (1595)

Caravaggio

The Fortune Teller (c. 1630)

Georges de la Tour

The Fortune Teller (1895)

Michael Vrubel

The Fortune Teller (1922)

Julio Romero de Torres

The Fortune Teller (Woman in a Yellow Dress) (1926)

Helena Sofia Schjerfbeck

Dreams of Rasputin (1968)

Jose Luis Cuevas

“Trio des Cartes” (1875)

Georges Bizet

“O Fortuna” (1935)

Carl Orff

“Fortune Teller” (1962)

Benny Spellman

“Nostradamus” (1973)

Al Stewart

“Predictions” (1990)

Suzanne Vega

“Wind of Change” (1990)

Scorpions

“Right Here, Right Now” (1991)

Jesus Jones

“Heal the World” (1991)

Michael Jackson

“Counting Up to Twenty” (1995)

Michael Crawford

“Will 2K” (1999)

Will Smith

“Journey In Satchidananda” (1971)

Alice Coltrane

“To the Unknown Man” (1977)

Vangelis

“Theme From Silk Road” (1980)

Kitaro

“Caribbean Blue” (1991)

Enya

Music for the Royal Fireworks (1749)

George Frideric Handel

Feu d'artifice (1908)

Igor Stravinsky

“Feux d'artifice” (1913)

Claude Debussy

Flourish with Fireworks (1988)

Oliver Knussen

“Fire◎Flower” (2008)

halyosy

“Firework” (2010)

Katy Perry

Magdalen with the Smoking Flame (1640)

Georges de La Tour

Great Fire of London, 1666

Jan Griffier

Windsor Castle from the Lower Court, on the 5th November (1776)

Paul Sandby

The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons(1835)

J.M.W. Turner

The Moon in Smoke (1886)

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi

Red Plastic (1961)

Alberto Burri

Fire Paintings (1957-1961)

Yves Klein

“Return To Innocence” (1994)

Enigma

Fire Symphony (c. 1760)

Joseph Haydn

“Magic Fire Music” (1870)

Richard Wagner

The Origin of Fire (1910)

Jean Sibelius

Suite from The Firebird (1919)

Igor Stravinsky

Winter Bonfire (1951)

Sergei Prokofiev

Great Balls of Fire” (1957)

Jerry Lee Lewis

“Ring of Fire” (1963)

Johnny Cash

“Chariots Of Fire” (1981)

Vangelis

“We Didn’t Start The Fire” (1989)

Billy Joel

“The Tyger” (1794)

William Blake

“Wasteland: on the California Wildfires” (2020)

Forrest Gander

“The History of Fire” (2021)

Forrest Gander

“I Am Still” (2023)

Jorie Graham

Red Jacket (1805)

The White Man and the Red

Haile Selassie (1936)

Appeal to the League of Nations

Robert Menzies (1942)

The Forgotten People

Jawaharlal Nehru (1947)

A Tryst with Destiny

Braveheart (1995)

“They’ll never take our freedom”

Independence Day (1996)

“Today we celebrate our Independence Day”

The West Wing: Season 4 (2002)

“The streets of heaven are too crowded”

Love, Actually (2003)

“We’re a great one too”

Yuen Ren Chao

“Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den” (c. 1930s)

Marianne Moore

“No Swan So Fine” (1932)

Ernest Vincent Wright

Gadsby, Chapter 1 (1939)

Dylan Thomas

“Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” (1951)

Kimiko Hahn

“[the whale already]” (2022)

Tommy Dorsey

“Imagination” (1940)

Gene Wilder

“Pure Imagination” (1971)

John Lennon

“Imagine” (1971)

Evanescence

“Imaginary” (2000)

Sun Ra

“Space is the Place” (1973)

Marvel

Black Panther vs Black

Grace Jones

“Nightclubbing” (1981)

Flying Lotus

“Galaxy In Janaki” (2010)

Kendrick Lamar

“Black Panther” (2018)

Cyrus Kabiru

Miyale Ya Blue (2020)

Hayao Miyazaki

Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (1984)

Gojira

“Global Warming” (2005)

Blizzard Entertainment

Overwatch (2016)

N. K. Jemison

“The Ones Who Stay and Fight” (2020)

Common

“Imagine” (2021)

Christian Holland

Wind Farmer (2022)

Free Lives

Terra Nil (2023)

Utopian Art Machine

“SolarPunk Anthem” (2024)

Lynn D. Jung

“We Cast Our Eyes to the Unknowable Now” (2025)

Sons of the Pioneers

“Old Man Atom” (1945)

The Golden Gate Quartet

Atom and Evil” (1946)

Five Stars

“Atom Bomb Baby” (1957)

Tom Lehrer

“So Long, Mom (1965)