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Spring from William Blake’s Songs of Innocence

MichaelEmmanuel — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 01:19:20 +0000

The Chimney Sweepers

MichaelEmmanuel — Tue, 10 May 2011 18:43:20 +0000

William Blake’s The Chimney Sweeper from Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience recorded in Tucson Arizona. Link above to YouTube. Click on picture for another link to Blake’s work.

Recently been short of breath. So did the best I could for now.

Hope you enjoy them.

Keats’ Ode to A Nightingale

MichaelEmmanuel — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 03:56:56 +0000

The album “Ode on a Grecian Urn” now includes Keats’ “Ode to a Nightingale.” Click here to link to lulu.com. It’s also available at amazon.com in the Ode to a Grecian Urn II album.

Thanks for your support.

Recouping old work

MichaelEmmanuel — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 20:54:46 +0000

William Blake self-portrait

Just posted a video of William Blake‘s Introduction piece in the collection Songs of Innocence. The audio is taken from an old cassette tape which include several ideas for musical versions of Blake’s famous collection. I’ve managed to score several of these on Finale and would love to perform them someday once I’ve tested them and feel they are ready for prime time!

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Thanks for listening!

Songs Appearing on Show for International Day of Peace

MichaelEmmanuel — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 05:12:11 +0000

Two Songs, “Circle of Love” and “Love Only Comes” from SINGular mOMent CD and MOrning Sun CD will be part of a great show on onlinewithandrea on Blog Talk Radio on a special 3 hour show, Monday, September 21st. The show is in celebration of the United Nations International Day of Peace.

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/onlinewithandrea/2009/09/22/One-Love-for-Music-with-Lee-Waterworth

Check out the time for your time zone and register with Blog Talk Radio so you can join everyone in the chat room. If you can’t make it for the live show you can listen to the archive any time.

It is a great honor for me to have my music included on this wonderful show!

Hope to see you there!

Rumors from an Aeolian Harp (Thoreau)

MichaelEmmanuel — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 04:54:45 +0000

Rumours from an Aeolian Harp Thoreau

Here’s something I hope you’ll enjoy while I work on Waiting(Burroughs) and Song of Wandering Aengus(Yeats)

I especially like the harmonizing at the end!

Rumors form an Aeolian Harp
Henry David Thoreau

There is a vale which none hath seen,
Where foot of man has never been,
Such as here lives with toil and strife,
An anxious and a sinful life.

There every virtue has its birth,
Ere it descends upon the earth,
And thither every deed returns,
Which in the generous bosom burns.

There love is warm, and youth is young,
And poetry is yet unsung.
For Virtue still adventures there,
And freely breathes her native air.

And ever, if you hearken well,
You still may hear its vesper bell,
And tread of high-souled men go by,
Their thoughts conversing with the sky

Shaman’s Hand CD release party for SINGular mOMent

MichaelEmmanuel — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 04:40:04 +0000

April 5 we’ll be celebrating the release of SINGular mOMent, the newest CD from Michael Emmanuel. This CD has a great collection of songs and shows Michael versatility as a writer of music for his own poetry and that of John Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn, William Wordsworth, Daffodils and Phantom of Delight, and a verse from Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s Sir Galahad, Star-like Mingles with the Stars.

Other songs are Buttefly, At the Door, Lifting of the Veil, Circle of Love and Sigular Moment. The song Little Angels Dust Your Wings was inspired by a poem of the same name by Canadian Rieki Master Alex Chornyj who will also be on the show.

Join us for some beautiful music and an inspirational joyfilled time or catch the archive at your convenience.

http://blogtalkradio.com/Michael-Emmanuel