Subject: RE: Yeats poems set to music
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Date: 02 Oct 12 - 03:56 PM
In the Deep Heart's Core
Songs from the Poetry of W. B. Yeats
By Joseph Sobol
Volume 1: "I Am of Ireland"
Volume 2: "Cast a Cold Eye"
Release date: January 28, 2004
Chicago Preview release: October 24-25, 2003
Announcing the complete 2-CD release of a contemporary masterwork:
"In the Deep Heart's Core." Joseph Daniel Sobol's sweeping song cycle from the poetry of Irish Nobel Laureate William Butler Yeats
"In the Deep Heart's Core," Volume Two: "Cast a Cold Eye," illuminates the work of the mature mystic whose tragic intensity, spiritual breadth and mastery of language tower over 20th century poetry. Includes "Running to Paradise, "Wild Swans at Coole," "The Cat and the Moon," "The Wild Old Wicked Man," and five songs in the voice of Yeats's feminine alter ego, Crazy Jane; sixteen songs and three spoken pieces in all. This is an all-new recording of the second half of Sobol's song cycle, which received a Joseph Jefferson Citation for Outstanding Original Score in its Chicago stage debut.
Originally released in 1995, "In the Deep Heart's Core," Volume One: "I Am of Ireland," highlights the youthful genius of the "Celtic Twilight," creator of the signature poetry of the Irish Renaissance: "The Lake Isle of Innisfree," "Into the Twilight," The Fiddler of Dooney," "Host of the Air," "Song of the Wandering Aengus," and others reflecting Yeats's passion for Ireland, for poetry, and for his elusive Beloved; twelve songs and three spoken pieces in all, along with leaping Irish dance tunes and poignant traditional airs. This is a newly expanded and re-mastered edition, which brings the entire work to its intended scope and grandeur.
These classic W. B. Yeats poems have been set to music and arranged by Joseph Daniel Sobol, in a style that seamlessly melds Irish tradition, contemporary folk, classical, jazz, and world musics. They are magnificently performed by singers Kathy Cowan, Tom Orf, Joseph Sobol, and the band Kiltartan Road, featuring Sobol's distinctive playing on 6 and 12 string guitars, cittern, and harp guitar, along with piano, fiddle, bass, percussion, and reeds. It is a song cycle in the classic mold, a set of hauntingly beautiful melodies which happen to have for lyrics some of the greatest poems in the English language.
[QUOTES:]
"Simply not to be missed. This musical adaptation remains true to the master poet's vision, transporting the heart and spirit into sacred realms through the alchemy of music and language."
—Irish-American News
". . . A RAPTUROUS WEAVE of the IRRESISTABLE sounds of Irish music and the steely but lyrical magic that animates the words of one of Ireland's most celebrated poets, W. B. Yeats."
--Chicago Sun-Times
"A JOY. POETRY TO THE EARS. Alternately tender and rousing. . . . Warming each note with Gaelic charm and unaffected purity, Cowan's richly textured delivery lifts the "Innisfree" ballad to folk glory."
--Chicago Tribune
"Joseph Sobol has composed music that fits the sense and mood of Yeats's poems, but the music is so distinctively Irish that people partial to that genre would like this piece even if they were not familiar with Yeats. In addition to being an homage to the poet, this show is A GREAT IRISH SONGFEST. . . ."
--Philadelphia Inquirer
"ENCHANTING, endearing, yet so rich in things we didn't know till now."
--Studs Terkel, author and radio host
"An extraordinarily rich and beautiful evocation of the genius of Yeats and of his beloved Ireland."
--James Flannery, Emory University,
Director, Yeats International Theatre Festival
CONTACT:
Kiltartan Road Music OR:
c/o Joseph Sobol c/o Kathy Cowan
211 E. Main St. 2674 N. Burling
Jonesborough TN 37659 Chicago IL 60614
423-753-2306 773-871-5142
sobol@etsu.edu cowansong@aol.com
website: http://www.kiltartanroad.com
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