The Past & I: Thomas Hardy and Music

Arthur Keegan and David Fay
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In this three part podcast Arthur Keegan and David Fay discuss Thomas Hardy and music in relation to an album of music called The Past & I: 10o Years of Thomas Hardy released by Delphian Records on 19th July 2024. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episodes

  1. Thomas Hardy and Old Father Time

    07/18/2024

    Thomas Hardy and Old Father Time

    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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    17 min
  2. Thomas Hardy and Composers

    07/18/2024

    Thomas Hardy and Composers

    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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    22 min
  3. Thomas Hardy and Emma Gifford

    07/18/2024

    Thomas Hardy and Emma Gifford

    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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    25 min
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In this three part podcast Arthur Keegan and David Fay discuss Thomas Hardy and music in relation to an album of music called The Past & I: 10o Years of Thomas Hardy released by Delphian Records on 19th July 2024. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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