Episode 686, Poetry in Music 2

Music is read, and notes can sound blue, can you be inspired, by poetry too? On this episode of Wind & Rhythm, we listen to music inspired by poems. We hear Philip Sparke’s take on a poem by Friedrich Schiller, Lewis Buckley’s rendition of Sandburg’s “Fog,” and Valerie Coleman’s imagining of Langston Hugues, all right here, at the gathering place for people who love band music.

Portraits of Langston
  Valerie Coleman
  McGill/McHale Trio
  Demarre McGill, flute; Anthony McGill, clarinet;
  Michael McHale, piano; Mahershala Ali, reader    
Sandburg Reflections - II. Fog
  Lewis Buckley
  Metropolitan Wind Symphony, Lewis Buckley
  Lisa Williamson, mezzo-soprano
The Song of the Bell
After a Poem by Friedrich Schiller
  Philip Sparke
  Johan Willem Friso Band, Hans Leendners
My Hands Are a City
  Jonathan Newman
  University of Georgia Wind Ensemble, John P. Lynch