Name: 'The Song of Wandering Aengus'
Duration: 3 min 10 s
Channel: Yeats/Yonemitsu
Description: Free MP3 download. Poem by William Butler Yeats, From 'The Wind Among the Reeds,' 1899, written for Tenor and Piano

'The Song of Wandering Aengus'

Loren Lieberman

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Poem by William Butler Yeats, From 'The Wind Among the Reeds,' 1899, written for Tenor and Piano

jazz classical instrumental vocal opera orchestra chamber ballet

Loren Lieberman

Composer for large-scale performance work, ballet and opera. Have written music for classical theatrical productions of Shakespeare, ("The Tempest," "The Twelft

Loren Lieberman is a native of Denver, Colorado, now living on the West Coast in California, where he is best known for his work as an actor in Classical and Shakespearean Theatre. He has a degree from Sonoma State University in Theatre Arts, and has been an Honor's Music Composition Student at the College of Marin, Santa Rosa Junior College, and at Sonoma State University. He has won an award for composition from the Redwood Empire Music Association. He has recently completed an opera in Russian, based on the novel by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, "Cancer Ward", (and of the same name), and is currently working on his fourth opera, based on the Classical Tragedy by Sophocles, "Oedipus the King," with a libretto in Ancient Greek. His interest in languages has shaped much of his artistic temperment, and he is self taught in Russian and Sanskrit, and has hopes to begin his next opera, Shakespeare's, "Romeo and Juliet," in Hindi.

Song Info

Genre

Classical • Opera

Charts

Peak #117

Peak in subgenre #6

Author

Yeats/Yonemitsu

Rights

2008

Uploaded

August 22, 2008

Track Files

MP3

MP3 2.9 MB • 128 kbps • 3:10

Story behind the song

".....the silver apples of the moon, the golden apples of the sun."

I first was attracted to the poetry of Yeats while a teenager. Because of his high literary style, and use and allusion to myths and legends I wasn't familiar with, I was able to understand only a small portion of his work, while the bulk of it remained somewhat indecipherable to me. His writing has long been a  favourite source of inspiration for music.  I am now able to say, that today, I am able to understand only a small portion of his work, while much of it remains undecipherable to me. 

If you are interested in obtaining the sheet music, or an audio MP3 file, please contact me at adhikapokoya@gmail.com

Lyrics

The Song of Wandering Aengus.

I went out to the hazel wood,	 
Because a fire was in my head,	 
And cut and peeled a hazel wand,	 
And hooked a berry to a thread;	 
And when white moths were on the wing,	         5
And moth-like stars were flickering out,	 
I dropped the berry in a stream	 
And caught a little silver trout.	 
  
When I had laid it on the floor	 
I went to blow the fire a-flame,	  10
But something rustled on the floor,	 
And someone called me by my name:	 
It had become a glimmering girl	 
With apple blossom in her hair	 
Who called me by my name and ran	  15
And faded through the brightening air.	 
  
Though I am old with wandering	 
Through hollow lands and hilly lands,	 
I will find out where she has gone,	 
And kiss her lips and take her hands;	  20
And walk among long dappled grass,	 
And pluck till time and times are done,	 
The silver apples of the moon,	 
The golden apples of the sun.

William Butler Yeats 1865-1939
From the "The Wind Among the Reeds." 1899

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