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Featuring the poem Common Ground by Laura Grace Weldon, read by Leon Bibb. The music is by an anonymous composer from around 1400. This textless piece has the title Andray Soulet. Performed here by replicas of Medieval instruments: recorder, plectrum lute, and vielle (a medieval fiddle), arranged by Debra Nagy.
Featuring the poem Beach Glass by John Gabel, read by Leon Bibb. Music by François Chauvon.
This episode pairs Shei Sanchez's "The End of Things" with a fantasia for viols by Renaissance composer William Byrd that was originally created for...
Diane Kendig's poem "At the Christmas Tree, on a line by Seamus Heaney," delights in flashes of recognition and nostalgia. The music, John Playford's...