Poetry and Music
The program for August 23, 2014, featured musical settings of poems.
First hour:
| Artist | Song Title | Album (Label) |
|---|---|---|
| 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) |
|---|---|---|
| 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) |