Poetry and Music
The program for August 23, 2014, featured musical settings of poems.
First hour:
Artist | Song Title | Album (Label) |
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Seamus Heaney • Liam O’Flynn | The Given Note / Port na bPúcai | The Poet & the Piper (Claddagh) |
Lillis Ó Laoire & John-Carlos Perea | Cumha Olowan (Song of Exile) | Bridge Across the Blue (Word & Violin) |
Cathie Ryan | The Yellow Bittern (an Bunnan Bui; Cathal Buí Mac Giolla Gunna / Thomas MacDonagh) | The Music of What Happens (Shanachie) |
Solas | Vanished Like the Snow (François Villon / Sydney Carter) | Sunny Spells and Scattered Showers (Shanachie) |
New Set | ||
W.B. Yeats | The Song of the Old Mother | The Poems of W.B. Yeats (Spoken Arts) |
Van Morrison | Before the World Was Made (W.B. Yeats) | Now and in the Time to Come (Grapevine) |
Joseph Sobol | Tom the Lunatic (W.B. Yeats) | In the Deep Heart’s Core, Volume 2: Cast a Cold Eye (Kiltartan Road Music) |
Kyle Alden | The Valley of the Black Pig (W.B. Yeats) | Songs from Yeats’ Bee-Loud Glade (s/p) |
Music Under Announcements | ||
Lee Murdock | Star of the County Down | Wordless (Depot) |
Jack Hardy | The Nameless One | The Nameless One (Prime) |
Susan McKeown | The Nameless One (James Clarence Mangan) | Singing in the Dark (Hibernian Music) |
New Set | ||
Robert Graves | Reduced Sentence | The Green-Sailed Vessel (Claddagh) |
Jay Ansill | A Love Story (Robert Graves) | A Lost World (BCN) |
Maria del Mar Bonet | El País Secret (Robert Graves / Lucia Graves / Jay Ansill) | Terra Secreta (Picap) |
Jay Ansill (Priscilla Herdman) | The Far Side of Your Moon (Robert Graves) | A Lost World (BCN) |
Second hour:
Artist | Song Title | Album (Label) |
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Carrie Newcomer | A Permeable Life | (PBS) |
Carrie Newcomer | Bare to the Bone | Bare to the Bone (Philo) |
Colin Farish | The House Dog’s Grave (Robinson Jeffers) | The Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: Night (Stillwater Sound) |
New Set | ||
W.S. Merwin | Late Spring | (host reads) |
W.S. Merwin | Antique Sounds | (online source) |
Jami Sieber & Kim Rosen | Before the Beginning (Rainer Maria Rilke) | Only Breathe (Out Front Music) |
Meryl Streep, Robert Benford Lepley, and the New York Voices | You Darkness, That I Come From (Rainer Maria Rilke) | Ancient Tower (rereleased as Visions Within) (EarthBeat!) |
New Set | ||
Colin Farish | Return, Natural Music (Robinson Jeffers) | The Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: Night (Stillwater Sound) |
Martha Redbone Roots Project | The Fly (William Blake) | The Garden of Love: Songs of William Blake (Blackfeet Productions) |
Kelly Mulhollan | In Memory of William Yeats, Part III (W.H. Auden) | Never-Ending Conversation (Termite Tracs) |
New Set | ||
Robin Williamson | The World (Henry Vaughan) | The Seed-at-Zero (ECM) |
Colin Farish | Doors to Peace (Robinson Jeffers) | The Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: Night (Stillwater Sound) |
Jami Sieber | The Moon Inside (faded) | Unspoken (Lush Mechanique Music) |