Sunday, July 25, 2010

New Posts at my Youtube channel

New videos at my Youtube channel. "Ode to a Nightingale" by John Keats. "Songs of Innocence, Introduction" of William Blake and "East of the Sun" by J.R.R. Tolkein. One of the most popular videos is "Infant Joy" of William Blake, also in the Songs of Innocence. "La belle Dame Sans Merci" of John Keats is also a fast rising video.

Also added somewhat recently was "Little Black Boy" from Blake's Songs of Innocence.

I had some very nice response to the Keats' songs from the John Keats site here.

Hope you'll stop by, leave a comment and subscribe to my channel.

Oh, I do have another site and I forget to post things on this one. It's here.

Also I have a new CD at Amazon.com titled "Ode on a Grecian Urn." It was released prior to the recording of Ode to a Nightingale but it has any very nice songs by several great poets. You can find it here.

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Happy Birthday, Michael Head

Happy Birthday and thanks for the beautiful and fun songs, Michael Head.

from Wikipedia:

Michael Head was born in Eastbourne, United Kingdom on January 23, 1900. His father was a barrister and journalist and his mother an accomplished amateur singer and pianist. His mother’s influence evidently dominated, and at age 10 he commenced his musical training, taking piano lessons with Jean Adair and singing with Fritz Marston at the Adair-Marston School of Music. He was educated at Monkton Combe School Somerset In 1919, after a period of study at the Royal Academy of Music, he won the Sir Michael Costa scholarship for composition. During World War I he was called up for service, and while working at an ammunition factory, composed the song cycle Over the rim of the moon (Head et al., 1920). This was to become his first published work.

Check out my YouTube channel for a new video of Michael Head's "A Piper" here.