Back from Premieres and poetry
UPDATE:
Here are youtube videos of the poetry & music
The Premieres & Poetry event went very well yesterday. Thanks to the friends who came to support me.
A video of the event will come out later, but for now, here is my part:
My reading of the cleave poem “Migration” and performing of “Rendezvous under a Saigon sunset” went as well as I could have wished. Lots of positive feedback, which was great as this was my first ‘gig’.
Click on the youtube links to see them:
The music to these poems was amazing – the composer is a highly talented young composer called Oliver Leith.
The rest of the night was amazing to watch and listen to – live poetry and live new music (conductor, flute/piccolo, oboe, clarinet/bass clarinet, trumpet, two cellos). The highlights for me was the singing by a professional Russian singer and Luke Wright’s performance of his poem “Colonel Crompton Goes Off”.
My thanks to the EMFEB orchestra and Owen Bourne for a brilliant evening.
Hi:
You are doing a great service by popularizing and naming cleave poetry. But we were doing cleave poetry in Arlington Heights, IL in 1998. It was not in private, these were performances at Barnes and Noble bookstores, coffee houses and other sites. I don’t know if the group still exists since I moved to New Mexico. I have posted my poem on your site. Keep up the good work. If you want to contact me, I am Richard Dates and my email is walrusblackhawk@hotmail.com. I am a board member of the El Morro Area Arts Council and we have a poetry group associated with our gallery.
Best Wishes.