60 acast.com <![CDATA[The Past & I: Thomas Hardy and Music]]> https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/the-past-i-thomas-hardy-and-music en Arthur Keegan and David Fay Thomas Hardy, Arthur Keegan,music,poetry,the past and I,art song, poetry and music Arthur Keegan and David Fay

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]]> false Arthur Keegan and David Fay info+66999c383bbdd745dceacf24@mg-eu.acast.com 66999c383bbdd745dceacf24 the-past-i-thomas-hardy-and-music episodic https://assets.pippa.io/shows/cover/1721343020039-8d768ba684dcc93dec0f3b723d1792bf.jpeg https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/the-past-i-thomas-hardy-and-music <![CDATA[The Past & I: Thomas Hardy and Music]]> Thomas Hardy and Old Father Time Thomas Hardy and Old Father Time Thu, 18 Jul 2024 23:14:29 GMT 17:19 6699a1d525946be3342a0f2b false http://www.arthurkeegan.co.uk 6699a1d525946be3342a0f2b 66999c383bbdd745dceacf24 full 1 3 In this third episode we explore Arthur Keegan's String Quartet no. 1 'Elegies for Tom' which responds to Thomas Hardy's poem Afterwards as well as Larkin's poem The Mower.


How does Hardy’s obsessession with death come out in his poetry?

Why is he pre-occupied with his own death?

How can a piece of music for string quartet respond to this?


https://orcd.co/thepastandi


Arthur Keegan

David Fay

Rachel Hodgins

Lotte Betts-Dean

James Girling

Ligeti Quartet

Delphian Records

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]]> In this third episode we explore Arthur Keegan's String Quartet no. 1 'Elegies for Tom' which responds to Thomas Hardy's poem Afterwards as well as Larkin's poem The Mower.


How does Hardy’s obsessession with death come out in his poetry?

Why is he pre-occupied with his own death?

How can a piece of music for string quartet respond to this?


https://orcd.co/thepastandi


Arthur Keegan

David Fay

Rachel Hodgins

Lotte Betts-Dean

James Girling

Ligeti Quartet

Delphian Records

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]]> Thomas Hardy and Composers Thomas Hardy and Composers Thu, 18 Jul 2024 23:11:34 GMT 22:06 6699a1273bbdd745dceb96be false https://www.arthurkeegan.co.uk 6699a1273bbdd745dceb96be 66999c383bbdd745dceacf24 full 1 2 In this second episode we explore the suite of arrangements of songs setting Hardy poetry from across 100 Years presented on the album.


Is there something uniquely musically enticing in Hardy’s poems?

Why, when critics haven’t always been kind toward Hardy’s poems, have composers consistently turned to them?

What does it mean to arrange some of these songs for new instrumentation?


https://orcd.co/thepastandi


Arthur Keegan

David Fay

Rachel Hodgins

Lotte Betts-Dean

James Girling

Ligeti Quartet

Delphian Records

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]]> In this second episode we explore the suite of arrangements of songs setting Hardy poetry from across 100 Years presented on the album.


Is there something uniquely musically enticing in Hardy’s poems?

Why, when critics haven’t always been kind toward Hardy’s poems, have composers consistently turned to them?

What does it mean to arrange some of these songs for new instrumentation?


https://orcd.co/thepastandi


Arthur Keegan

David Fay

Rachel Hodgins

Lotte Betts-Dean

James Girling

Ligeti Quartet

Delphian Records

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]]> Thomas Hardy and Emma Gifford Thomas Hardy and Emma Gifford Thu, 18 Jul 2024 23:04:30 GMT 24:53 66999f7ee610c36c48c47e8d false https://www.arthurkeegan.co.uk 66999f7ee610c36c48c47e8d 66999c383bbdd745dceacf24 full 1 1 In this first episode we explore the song cycle Elegies for Emma which explores Thomas Hardy's relationship with Emma Gifford through the lens of the poetry he wrote about her...


Does the poetry written after her death help us understand their relationship?

Why did Hardy write just one poem about Emma before her death and almost two hundred after?

And how does all this turn into music?


https://orcd.co/thepastandi


Arthur Keegan

David Fay

Rachel Hodgins

Lotte Betts-Dean

James Girling

Ligeti Quartet

Delphian Records

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]]> In this first episode we explore the song cycle Elegies for Emma which explores Thomas Hardy's relationship with Emma Gifford through the lens of the poetry he wrote about her...


Does the poetry written after her death help us understand their relationship?

Why did Hardy write just one poem about Emma before her death and almost two hundred after?

And how does all this turn into music?


https://orcd.co/thepastandi


Arthur Keegan

David Fay

Rachel Hodgins

Lotte Betts-Dean

James Girling

Ligeti Quartet

Delphian Records

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