“Mnemosyne”: An Art Song Project
Poetry Editor Don Bogen: As I mentioned when we published the score of Carrie Magin’s setting of Todd Hearon’s poem “Mnemosyne” in our Winter 2017 issue, this particular commission brings our series of...
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A Musical Performance: David Clay Mettens and All of the Above
As a followup to Tuesday’s video of Mary Kaiser reading “He Dreams a Mother,” we...
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Unveiling . . . our YouTube channel! If you were one of those folks who attended the launch of Acre Books at Books by the Banks this past weekend, you saw an extended trailer that included a snippet of an author interview, a...
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Art Song Video Premiere!
Don Bogen: With its score for alto flute, bass clarinet, viola, cello, piano, percussion, and...
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Our art song feature for the spring issue is an extended score of Mary Kaiser’s poem “He Dreams a Mother” by composer David Clay Mettens. We will, of course, post a recording of the score when our spring issue...
Read MoreArt Song Recording: “The body remembers . . .”
Composer and poet Kevin Simmonds has provided us with a recording of his setting of C. Dylan Bassett’s poem “The body remembers . . .”. The score is featured in our current issue. As poetry editor Don Bogen...
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Song of “Sefiros”
At last we can present the recording of our “art song” offering based on Jakob...
Read MoreFree Beer . . . Tomorrow
Over the summer our lovely subscribers received, along with issue 11.1 (our TEN-tacular number), a bonus music feature, in which we presented Sarah Hutchings’s score for Jeff Gundy’s “March Ode”...
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New Issue + Art Song
The Bad: Paper cuts. Unwieldy tape guns. Sitting on the floor criss-cross applesauce for hours on...
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