This is a jewel of a CD and we’re very proud of it. In the last few months it has climbed its way to being our best seller thanks in part to Amazon and Audible.com.
Working with eight theatre, media and music professionals in the New England area this marks BMA’s most elaborate project yet. The lyric poetry combined with vocal talent and classical music, most of which was recorded at BMA Studios, produce a hypnotic effect which I believe was the intention of the poets – to bring the reader out of the everyday mind and into the heart of Nature which is harmony and peace. I would like to think that the unique approach to the works on the CD will inspire a new dialogue between the listener and our beautiful Earth.
Portrait of Walt Whitman by Thomas Eakins
“Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons,
It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.“
Walt Whitman, Song of the Open Road
“Finding vital flow in himself as in nature, Whtiman prefaced Leaves of Grass with a manifesto, nine thousand words mapping turf for the new Amercian poet. ‘On him rise solid growths that offset the growths of pine and cedar and…’ here follow fifteen trees our native poet will embody…” From Can Poetry Save the Earth by John Felstiner
Preview selected tracks by clicking on the video trailers below .
Lines Composed in a Wood on a Windy Day – Anne Bronte
Nature by Emily Dickinson
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on Nature – Translation by Christopher Bamford
