What is a chorus? We come up with a different answer to that question every time we record a poem. Scroll down to hear more:
FEATURED: EDNA, ELIOT, & EMILY
Edna St. Vincent Millay, “Travel“
T.S. Eliot, “Animula“:
Edna St. Vincent Millay, “First Fig“
Emily Dickinson, “96″ (…My life closed twice before its close)
Edna St. Vincent Millay, “What lips my lips have kissed..”
RECORDINGS FROM FALL 2011
Gertrude Stein, excerpts from “Pigeons on the grass alas alas.”
Walt Whitman, “A Noiseless Patient Spider.”
William Blake, “The Garden of Love.”
Wallace Stevens, “The Emperor of Ice-Cream.”
Algernon Charles Swinburne, “Before the Beginning of Years.”
GREATEST HITS
(1) Wallace Stevens, “The Emperor of Ice-Cream” (the classic 2010 version)
ANTHOLOGY I: Soundtrack with Benefits
Our first CD, released July 8, 2011 at the screening of ANTHOLOGY I, contained these tracks.
OTHER RECORDINGS:
“588,” by Emily Dickinson.
“The world is lunatic,” by [poet redacted].
[poet redacted] “So capsize.”
Emily Dickinson, “256″ (…There’s a certain slant of light)
[poet redacted], “Murderer”
Poet redacted, “Die Rich”
ARCHIVAL RECORDINGS (some problems with sound quality)
Christopher Smart’s “For I Will Consider My Cat Jeoffry,” an excerpt from his longer poem, “Jubilate Agno.”
“Patterns,” by Amy Lowell.
“In A Station of the Metro,” by Ezra Pound.
Kenneth Koch, “To Various Persons Talked To All At Once.”
William Blake, “London”
Dylan Thomas, “A Refusal To Mourn The Death, By Fire, Of A Child In London”
Wallace Stevens, “Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock”
Baltimore poet Ryan Wilson, “For A Girl I Once Loved.”
Baltimore poet Megan McShea, “III.” (Poem was composed to live improvised music at 2009′s High Zero festival.)
Yeats, “No Second Troy” experimental mix, with chorus vocals and guitar:
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, excerpt from “Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
John Donne, “Song“
Philip Larkin’s “This Be The Verse” with Wendy Cope’s “Bloody Men.” Vocals only.
Yeats, “Drinking Song” experimental mix, chorus and piano:
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