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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.

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Ode to a Nightingale, John Keats

MichaelEmmanuel — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 21:00:54 +0000

First draft of John Keats’ famous poem “Ode to a Nightingale”. Just me with my guitar…. oops, says file is too big! The song turned out to be right at 10 minutes long. O.k. I’ll see what else I can do.

So here’s a preview of the first two verses:

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Here’s the first two lines again but different:

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I’ve been playing with violin, viola, cello and flute which all sound good, but I keep coming back to the bare bones creation. What can I say!

Thank you, John for this beautiful poem. I hope you like what I’m doing with it.

Nearly Ready….or do I speak too soon!

MichaelEmmanuel — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 03:58:16 +0000

Ode to a Nightingale is finally pulling together. I’m getting very close to beginning the recording process. My first reaction to putting this great work to music was a bit overwhelming. But patient, inching progress has led to something I think will be very nice and fitting of the great sentiments.

My favorite part: “Was it a vision or a waking dream? Fled is that music-do I wake or sleep?” (The very last lines)

Of course I love the whole poem. I hope you will like what I’m doing with it.