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The Poison Tree (play)
Poison Tree may refer to: Literature *"A Poison Tree", a 1794 poem by William Blake * ''Poison Tree'' (novel), a 2012 novel by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes * ''The Poison Tree'' (play), a play by Robert Glaudini *''The Poison Tree'', 1994 novel by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles *''The Poison Tree'', 2009 book by Erin Kelly *''Vishabriksha'' (''The Poison Tree''), 1873 novel by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay Music * The Poison Tree, a band led by Nick Castro *"A Poison Tree", classical song by Benjamin Britten on the Blake poem *"A Poison Tree", song by Gary Lucas from ''Gods and Monsters'' *"A Poison Tree", song by Finn Coren from '' Spring: The Appendix'' *"A Poison Tree", song by North Sea Radio Orchestra from ''Birds'' *"Poison Tree", song by Beth Orton from ''Sugaring Season ''Sugaring Season'' is English singer-songwriter Beth Orton's fifth studio album, her first new work for six years. It was recorded in Portland, Oregon at the studio of producer Tucker Martine. It is her first relea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Poison Tree
"A Poison Tree" is a poem written by William Blake, published in 1794 as part of his ''Songs of Experience'' collection. It describes the narrator's repressed feelings of anger towards an individual, emotions which eventually lead to murder. The poem explores themes of indignation, revenge, and more generally the fallen state of mankind. Background The ''Songs of Experience'' was published in 1795 as a follow up to Blake's 1789 ''Songs of Innocence.''Gilchrist 1907 p. 118 The two books were published together under the merged title ''Songs of Innocence and Experience, showing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul: the author and printer, W. Blake'' featuring 54 plates. The illustrations are arranged differently in some copies, while a number of poems were moved from ''Songs of Innocence'' to ''Songs of Experience.'' Blake continued to print the work throughout his life. Of the copies of the original collection, only 28 published during his life are known to exist, with an add ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Appendix
''The Appendix'' was an online magazine of "narrative and experimental history." It was co-founded in the fall of 2012 by Benjamin Breen, Felipe Cruz, Christopher Heaney, and Brian Jones. A stated goal of the journal is that "scholarly and popular history need to come together." It ceased publication in 2015 after publishing eight quarterly issues. The journal featured articles from historians, anthropologists, artists, journalists, and other writers. The journal has been praised by Lapham's Quarterly, The Public Domain Review, Dan Cohen (academic), the blog of the American Historical Association, and novelist Midori Snyder, who called it "a terrific highly interstitial journal, that combines in a unique fashion history and narrative." Material from ''The Appendix'' has been featured on the websites of ''The Atlantic'', ''Slate Slate is a fine-grained, foliated, homogeneous metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Songs Of Innocence And Of Experience (Greg Brown Album)
''Songs of Innocence and of Experience'' is an album by folk singer/guitarist Greg Brown, released in 1986. Brown sets the poetry of William Blake (see ''Songs of Innocence and of Experience'') to music. Reception Writing for Allmusic, music critic Tim Sheridan called the album "Some of the tunes are outstanding, such as the easy lines of "Lamb," while some poems refuse to adjust to Brown's melodic structures. However, it is an effort to be commended." Track listing All song by Greg Brown. # "Introduction" – 2:40 # " The Lamb" – 2:54 # "Infant Joy" – 2:02 # "The Chimney Sweeper" – 4:54 # " The Echoing Green" – 2:57 # "Night" – 4:06 # "On Another's Sorrow" – 2:15 # "The Tyger" – 3:23 # " The Angel" – 2:13 # " The Garden of Love" – 0:47 # " Infant Sorrow" – 1:33 # "Holy Thursday" – 2:47 # " Ah! Sun-Flower" – 2:27 # " The Little Vagabond" – 2:55 # " A Poison Tree" – 2:30 # "London" – 3:08 Personnel *Greg Brown – vocals, guitar * Michael Doucet †... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Songs Of Experience (David Axelrod Album)
''Songs of Experience'' is the second studio album by American composer and producer David Axelrod. It was released in October 1969 by Capitol Records. Axelrod composed, arranged, and produced the album while recording with session musicians such as guitarist Al Casey, bassist Carol Kaye, drummer Earl Palmer, and conductor Don Randi. As with his 1968 debut album ''Song of Innocence'', Axelrod and his musicians performed musical interpretations of English poet William Blake's ''Songs of Innocence and of Experience'', an 18th-century illustrated collection of poems. A jazz fusion album, ''Songs of Experience'' explores darker sounds than its predecessor, as the poems Axelrod selected dealt with the darker side of humanity. Its music was partly inspired by composer Gunther Schuller's Third Stream concept. Axelrod composed Baroque orchestrations with rock, R&B, pop, and folk music elements. ''Songs of Experience'' received retrospective acclaim from critics, who found Axelrod's co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boundless (album)
''Boundless'' is the second album of Finland, Finnish a cappella ensemble Rajaton, released on October 26, 2001. To reach out to a wider audience, Rajaton released this CD with all but two songs in English. Tracks Title ''(Composer / Lyricist)'' *1. Butterfly ''(Mia Makaroff)'' *2. Un-Wishing Well ''(Heikki Sarmanto / Kim Rich / arr. Jussi Chydenius)'' *3. The Lark in the Clear Air ''(Jussi Chydenius / Samuel Ferguson)'' *4. We Walk in a Fog ''(Jussi Chydenius / Eino Leino, translated by Jaakko Mäntyjärvi)'' *5. Lady Madonna ''(John Lennon & Paul McCartney, arr. Jussi Chydenius)'' *6. Dobbin's Flowery Vale ''(Irish folk melody, arr. Matti Kallio)'' *7. Summer Song ''(Michael McGlynn)'' *8. A Poison Tree, Poison Tree ''(Laura Sippola / William Blake)'' *9. You Can't Stop Me! ''(Mia Makaroff)'' *10. Armahan Kulku (The Lover's Path) ''(Anna-Mari Kähärä / lyrics from the Kanteletar)'' *11. Kaipaava (Longing) ''(trad. Finnish, arr. Essi Wuorela and Jussi Chydenius)'' External l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goanna (band)
Goanna are an Australian rock band which formed in 1977 in Geelong as The Goanna Band with mainstay Shane Howard as singer-songwriter and guitarist. The group integrated social protest with popular music and reached the Top 20 on the Australian Kent Music Report Singles Chart with "Solid Rock (Goanna song), Solid Rock" (1982) and "Let the Franklin Flow" (released under the name Gordon Franklin & the Wilderness Ensemble in 1983). Their debut album, ''Spirit of Place (album), Spirit of Place'', peaked at No. 2 on the related albums chart. They disbanded in 1987 and briefly reformed in 1998. History 1977-1987 The Goanna Band were formed as an Australian folk-rock group by singer-songwriter and guitarist Shane Howard in Geelong in 1977. Alongside Howard, the original line-up was Mike Biscan (guitar), Richard Griffiths (bass guitar) and Rod Hoe (drums). During their early years the line-up changed numerous times, with only Howard as the mainstay. In 1979, the group consiste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sugaring Season
''Sugaring Season'' is English singer-songwriter Beth Orton's fifth studio album, her first new work for six years. It was recorded in Portland, Oregon at the studio of producer Tucker Martine. It is her first release for the ANTI- record label with whom she signed in 2010. In 2014 it was awarded a silver certification from the Independent Music Companies Association, which indicated sales of at least 20,000 copies throughout Europe. Critical reviews Review aggregation website Metacritic assigned ''Sugaring Season'' a score of 76 based on twenty-eight reviews, denoting "generally favorable reviews". Thom Jurek of Allmusic gave the album four stars out of five and called it "sophisticated, mature, and rife with quiet passion", and said "its songs are informed by the struggles inherent in everyday life, but also account for dreams, small triumphs, and the redemptive power of love". Track listing All songs were composed by Beth Orton except where noted: #"Magpie" – 4:32 #"D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birds (North Sea Radio Orchestra Album)
''Birds'' is the second album by the English cross-disciplinary musical ensemble North Sea Radio Orchestra. It was released on December 1, 2008, on Oof! Records. Background ''Birds'' was a continuation of the work begun on the ensemble's first album, ''North Sea Radio Orchestra'', consisting almost entirely of original compositions and containing settings of antique poetry from the Victorian and Edwardian eras and earlier. As with the previous album, ''Birds'' contained settings of poems by Thomas Hardy ("The Wound" and "Phantom") and Alfred, Lord Tennyson ("The Flower" and "Move Eastward Happy Earth", both of which had been in the repertoire of the ensemble since its earliest concerts in 2002). ''Birds'' expanded the band's choice of poetry for setting choice by including settings of Geoffrey Chaucer ("Now Welcom Somer") and William Blake ("The Angel", "A Poison Tree" and "Golden Cage"). Almost all of the music was written by group leader Craig Fortnam with the exception of " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gods And Monsters (Gary Lucas Album)
''Gods and Monsters'' is the debut studio album of Gary Lucas, released in 1992 through Enemy Records. Track listing Personnel ;Musicians * Gary Lucas – vocals, guitar, production *Rolo McGinty – vocals *Jared Nickerson – bass guitar *Tony Thunder Smith – drums ;Production and additional personnel *John Azelvandre – engineering *Michael Blair – drums on "Jack Johnson/Ghostrider", percussion on "Whip Named Lash" *Harold Burgon – engineering *Johnny Byrne – engineering *Stephen Byrum – art direction, design *Greg Calbi – mastering *Anton Corbijn – photography *K-Rob – vocals on "The Crazy Ray" *Jon Langford – vocals and guitar on "The Brain from Planet Eros" *Keith Leblanc – drums on "King Strong", programming * Tony Maimone – bass guitar on "The Brain from Planet Eros" *Francis Manzella – engineering * Skip McDonald – engineering *Paul Now – sampler ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poison Tree (novel)
''Poison Tree'' is a 2012 young adult fiction novel by American author Amelia Atwater-Rhodes and is her thirteenth novel. The book was published on July 10, 2012 and is the eighth novel in the Den of Shadows series. The novel's title is derived from a poem by William Blake entitled "A Poison Tree", which is featured at the beginning of the novel. Atwater-Rhodes stated that ''Poison Tree'' was originally titled ''Tiger Rise'', that she had initially filmed it as a movie with her friends, and that the book took her a long time to write. Summary Sarik and Alysia both have pasts that they want to escape and ties to the supernatural world. Sarik is capable of shapeshifter, shapeshifting into a tiger, while Alysia once worked as an Onyx mercenary- a profession that causes trouble to follow her wherever she goes. Upon her arrival at SingleEarth Haven Number Four, Sarik's vampiric lover Jason is attacked by a suspicious Onyx bounty hunter and the Haven is dragged into the middle of a dis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin Britten
Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976, aged 63) was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He was a central figure of 20th-century British music, with a range of works including opera, other vocal music, orchestral and chamber pieces. His best-known works include the opera '' Peter Grimes'' (1945), the '' War Requiem'' (1962) and the orchestral showpiece ''The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra'' (1945). Born in Lowestoft, Suffolk, the son of a dentist, Britten showed talent from an early age. He studied at the Royal College of Music in London and privately with the composer Frank Bridge. Britten first came to public attention with the '' a cappella'' choral work '' A Boy was Born'' in 1934. With the premiere of ''Peter Grimes'' in 1945, he leapt to international fame. Over the next 28 years, he wrote 14 more operas, establishing himself as one of the leading 20th-century composers in the genre. In addition to large-sca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Castro
Nick Castro is a folk, psychedelic folk, traditional A tradition is a belief or behavior (folk custom) passed down within a group or society with symbolic meaning or special significance with origins in the past. A component of cultural expressions and folklore, common examples include holidays or ... and experimental musician and member of the Young Elders. Overview Nick Castro was raised in California. His musical training started early although much of his accomplishment was self-taught. Nick Castro has had three periods now of his brand of acoustic-based musics. Firstly as a solo artist, then with recording ensemble The Poison Tree and currently with touring band The Young Elders. He has toured internationally and recorded with many of the young folk bands which have emerged in the last decades. Castro has toured, played and collaborated with Feathers and many others. Nick Castro is also a San Francisco photographer of street life. Henri Cartier-Bresson has said o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
