Name: T.S. Eliot Reads "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by brainpicker in Literature
Duration: 4 min 34 s
Description: For full poem text, plus Eliot on idea-incubation and the mystical quality of creativity, go here: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/09/26/t-s-eliot-on-creativity/

Literature

With all the talk of a "golden age" of audio, it can be easy to forget that producers have been putting together intimate, conversational audio pieces for decades. In this Popcast, hear about the surprising podcast-like feel of a 1972 radio documentary about Sylvia Plath.

Listen on Pop Up Archive, along with a full machine transcript: https://www.popuparchive.com/collections/4425/items/34632

Hear the original piece from the Pacifica Radio Archives on Pop Up Archive: www.popuparchive.com/collections/925/items/6821

O my Homunculus: The proto-podcast about Sylvia Plath

"Our planet doesn't need any successful people anymore. Our planet urgently needs peacemaker, healer, innovator, narrator and Lovers of all kinds." 
                                The Dalai Lama.
2. part of a concert for piano and Orchester in a mix of styles of expressionism, film music and late Romantic.
Composed November 2014; MIDI-Realisation February 2015.

"Metaphysics" Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in B flat minor(Mvt.2)

Mad Girl's Love Song - a poem by Sylvia Plath

Performed by Natalie Clark

Mad Girl's Love Song - a poem by Sylvia Plath. Performed by Natalie Clark

Performed by Maggie Gyllenhaal

About the Book

The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under -- maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that Esther's insanity becomes completely real and even rational, as probable and accessible an experience as going to the movies. Such deep penetration into the dark and harrowing corners of the psyche is an extraordinary accomplishment and has made The Bell Jar a haunting American classic.

THE BELL JAR by Sylvia Plath

Words cannot yet describe what this sombre piano improvisation means at this moment. where the music hopefully 'speaks' for itself, produced with a beautiful ambience and depth added to the piano by John Styles.  

A full Orchestral version of this piece is also in the planning ….

This music was initially inspired by watching images of terrorism and the fallout, the chaos and people running in fear  .. it was these horrifying images I saw as I played this music watching a silent TV … a reflection of so many lost opportunities for beautiful, carefree people, of those who were lost, and for the survivors, and their families and friends and the heroes who risked their lives.  These feelings were also expressed with John Styles, but I still cannot find words which are adequate enough to convey the depths of such sorrow……   Perhaps only music can achieve this

Declining health stopped me from uploading this track until now but I, and others, continue to keep going, in the belief and hope that life will change for the better  ….

It is this unknown in what may await us that inspired this piece …. but It is also this hope that we must hold onto if ever we undergo change, loss or grief in our lives…. Hope and peace within …. to continue on despite our external circumstances, for life can be filled with such joy, which we must try never to lose sight of…. even the simplest of things,… the flowers that bloom, the leaves blowing in the breeze, the singing of birds and the sun on our faces ……  to find a safe place within ourselves where we cannot be touched and where inner peace and silence holds strong …and solidarity of all helps us to carry on
xx

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Music Composition: Megan McCarthy
Piano Performance: Megan McCarthy
Producer: John Styles https://soundcloud.com/onevision-crossworlds
Released: 21 July 2017 (Australia)

What Awaits Us

What Awaits - Megan McCarthy (Producer John Styles)

This piece is about all the bads things happening in the world these times. Sadness, anger and helplessness are in my heart when I see all this madness. Whether it is terrorist attacks, tension between the leaders of the great nations or war in general, we are caught between that and we can only hope that it does not touch us or our love ones...Even so, all these broken lives by some people...blinded by hatred... But I keep hope that someday, we break this cycle of violence and stop hurting each others...

The Blindness

What's it all about? A dramatic monologue about wanting it all, in the words of the immortal Sylvia Plath.

"The Fig Tree" - Sylvia Plath

Melancholy

I realize it has been quite a while since i last posted.
Since my recent bereavement, I've been remembering, re-balancing, and finding it much more difficult than i could ever have imagined. Paige was the Love of my life, my best friend, and such a character!  :-D
 
But, all things considered, Life is Good! The death of ones beloved, not so much. 
However, the love of friends and family continues to make all the difference as i am on my own again for the first time in 35 years.

So, it gives me great pleasure to release my first New Piano Improvisation since my darling Wife, Paige, who was also my Muse, and Best Friend, passed away in my arms so suddenly on the first day of May in 2018).   

Now, all i can do is continue to Share my Love, my Music ... and to Remember and Cherish the Fullness of All we inJOYed during the many years we adventured together.  <3 

In-deed, i pledge to continue Creating and Sharing the humble musical gifts i have been blessed with, in remembrance of the amazing love we shared. 

Rest in Peace, and continue to Be yourSelf wherever you may Be, 'My love, my fair one.' 
Our Love is Forever! <3

~  Gary

© Gary Courtland-Miles 2018
℗ Gary Courtland-Miles 2018
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The Video below was a gift from @Arcaans 
It's a synchronous beauty, and i thank him deeply. 
May you inJoy.  :)

youtu.be/weLffF0yO7g

Resonant Memories and Magical Moments

Happy Birthday <3

Composed in loving memory on the anniversary of my daughter's passing.  Rest in peace.

Dear Allyson

For full poem text, plus Eliot on idea-incubation and the mystical quality of creativity, go here: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/09/26/t-s-eliot-on-creativity/

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T.S. Eliot Reads "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

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From a BBC radio segment broadcast on April 29th, 1937. Background and transcript:http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/04/29/craftsmanship-virginia-woolf-speaks-1937/ 

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