Resounding Verse Podcast
1) Labor Day: Lainie Fefferman and Jascha Narveson
I head back to university teaching tomorrow—and I know many teachers and students who are already back at it. In honor of this back-to-school season, here's an episode on a wild and wonderful song by ...Show More
2) Frosty in Desire: William Shakespeare and Rodrigo Ruiz
On September 27, 2024, Signum Records will release a recording of Rodrigo Ruiz's cycle of seventeen songs, Venus & Adonis, based on William Shakespeare's poem of the same name. In this episode, I dive...Show More
3) Alleluia: Nathaniel Bellows and Sarah Kirkland Snider
The Mass for the Endangered, by Nathaniel Bellows and Sarah Kirkland Snider, appeals not to God but to nature itself and (in Snider's words) takes the "musical modes of spiritual contemplation" associ...Show More
4) You're the One: Rhiannon Giddens
The title track from Rhiannon Giddens's recent album You're the One—which was just released by Nonesuch Records—is a love song, but not one about two adults; it's about a moment Giddens...Show More
5) Songe (Dream): Maurice Bouchor and Mel Bonis
Have you ever felt as though a single moment—gazing into someone's eyes, listening to a passage of music, looking at a landscape—transports you to another realm? Maurice Bouchor's poem is ab...Show More
6) In Fountain Court: Arthur Symons and Elizabeth Maconchy
Arthur Symons's poem captures a lazy June afternoon, with a fountain burbling and the moon hanging in the sky, waiting for the coming of night. Elizabeth Maconchy transforms the poem into a song ...Show More
7) Resevwa Li (Receive Them): A Haitian Hymn Reimagined by Nathalie Joachim
The Haitian-American composer Nathalie Joachim transforms a Haitian hymn, and in so doing creates a multi-layered tapestry of sound that evokes the many voices of Haiti—past, present, and future."Rese...Show More
8) One by One: Connie Converse
Connie Converse was one of the first singer-songwriters, an uncommon talent who predated Bob Dylan and Joan Baez. But she was barely known in her day, and after making a handful of low-fi recordings i...Show More
9) Letzter Wunsch (Last Wish): Julius Sturm and Marie von Kehler
We know very little about the German composer Marie von Kehler (1822–1882), who served as a "lady in waiting" to a princess and seems to have been acquainted with Johannes Brahms. But we do know that ...Show More
10) Firmament: Carolyn Forché and Caroline Shaw
Carolyn Forché's 46-page poem "On Earth" forms the basis for a song cycle called The Blue Hour, which was composed by five women—Caroline Shaw, Shara Nova, Rachel Grimes, Angelica Negrón, and Sar...Show More