Sonnet 116

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken.
Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle’s compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

William Shakespeare- Sonnet 116

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A simple song written with the aid of William Shakespeare on lyrical duties. Recreated with A.I. vocal modeling in the style of Amy Winehouse, Freddie Mercury and Adele. The idea is that they’re gathered around a celestial piano (Adele is just visiting before heading back to Vegas), seeing the early, drunken hours out with a busked tune.

AI Modelling

Sonnet 18 (Freddie Mercury, Amy Winehouse, Adele)

Interview de Ben Glassberg, chef d'orchestre de l'Opéra de Rouen Normandie, sur sa passion pour West Side Story.

https://www.benglassberg.co.uk/
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Ben Glassberg on West Side Story

l'ebreo dipinto | 24.01.25

Lady Macbeth' is a song that I wrote in 1995 that draws a very direct parallel between Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' and the supremely cruel leading lady whose toxicity perfectly evoked a certain ex-girlfriend who haunted my early 20s.

It was a song that I originally recorded in 1996 with my band, Grannyflat. The relevance of this being that I was able to use a platform called LALAL.ai to separate the musical stems so as to access the horn lines and lead vocal. What this can do runs dizzy rings around Izotope's 'Music Rebalance'. 

And while I'd only been hoping to better hear what was going on with those aspects of the arrangement so I could recreate it - I realised it was so clean that I'd be able to actually use it. True black magic. The horn lines were written and performed by my old sax and trumpet players, Nick Lester and Declan Jones.

Of course the original was never recorded with a click track so even though I used a tempo app to work out the overall bpm (which was 116), the track still swam all over the place.

To that end I was able to 'liquify' the audio for the horn lines and lead vocal, and re-sculpt them into place using Logic's Monophonic Flex Mode. A second kind of black magic. This kind of tech used to generate horrible audible artefacts. Not anymore.

The rest of the arrangement is brand new and to that end I played everything else on it. From my old butterscotch Fender Strat, to an amazing blonde headless bass of indeterminate origin. Despite having an original Fender Rhodes (Mark 1 Seventy Three) in my studio, I used a Rhodes Mark 1 from the new official 'Rhodes Anthology' from Rhodes which is an amazing collection. Some clav from Spectrasonics Keyscape, and some B3 and Moog from Universal Audio and it was done.

Hope you enjoy it.

Here are the lyrics >

Lady Macbeth
Words & Music by:
Adrian Elton
© Copyright 11 August 1995

Intro

Verse 01		

Just like Lady Macbeth you
You brought about the death of
Something I thought was quite precious

Verse 02		

Your hands are stained with blood
You, ‘Out Damned Spot’, it won’t help you
You’ve turned into something quite vicious


Chorus
		
So what did I do 
That made you turn so sour
That made you so top full	
Dripping with the milk
Of human unkindness
What made you so God-damned cruel

Verse 03
		
Just like Lady Macbeth you
Got daggers on your breath you
Like to make the cauldron bubble

Verse 04
		
Am I thou naughty knave, am
Am I thou dying slave, am
Am I your permanent stubble 

Chorus

Bridge	
	
‘Fair is foul and foul is fair’
I should, ‘dispute it like a man'
‘All the perfumes of Arabia could not sweeten this little hand’
’Double, double toil and trouble’
‘Why do you dress in borrowed robes’
‘Out brief candle’
‘Let not light see my dark and deep desires’

Verse 05
		
Just like Lady Macbeth, you
You swooped down in one foul breath
And over leaped your vile ambition

Verse 06	

Once I was your Macbeth, your
Your Thane, your mirror reign, now
I’m quoting Shakespeare from my kitchen

Chorus	

Groove

Lady Macbeth (2025)

“Under The Greenwood Tree” is a poem taken from William Shakespeare’s romantic comedy “As You like It”. In this poem the speaker urges the listener to move away from the hustle and bustle and settle for a peaceful life in the woods. There they shall live from what nature has to offer, free from ambition and civilization. 

Buy this song on Bandcamp: https://catvictoria.bandcamp.com/track/under-the-greenwood-tree-poem-by-william-shakespeare

The Album art is a watercolor painting of blackberry branch by the Austrain artist Friedrich Carl von Scheidlin (1822-1913) 

Music written, performed and produced by Cat Victoria

Under The Greenwood Tree - Poem By William Shakespeare

„Cały świat to scena”, „Być, albo nie być”, „Życie jest tylko przechodnim półcieniem,
nędznym aktorem”, „Romeo, Romeo! Czemuż ty jesteś Romeo” to cytaty z Williama
Shakespeare’a, które znają wszyscy, nawet jeśli nie są pewni, z jakiego konkretnie utworu
pochodzą. W sto dwudziestym drugim odcinku literackiego podcastu „W księgarni”
prezentujemy mniej znane, wydane w dwóch tomach nakładem Państwowego Instytutu
Wydawniczego „Tragedie rzymskie” klasyka ze Stradford-upon-Avon. A nasze okładkowe
zdjęcie pochodzi z ossolińskiej wystawy „#widzimysię z Williamem Shakespeare’em”, która
prezentowała grafiki ilustrujące sztuki wielkiego dramaturga.

„Tragedie rzymskie” Williama Shakespeare’a | Odc. 122 „W księgarni”

I’m a songwriter first and last - not a performer. My focus is on the craft of the song itself, which is why my music has such a wide range. I don’t have one sound; I write for other voices and a vast variety of genres.

You won't find my face on a stage or my voice on a mic. My tracks aren't about building my own brand; they’re about creating a mood or a story that comes fully to life through the right singer.

Love to read, write, travel, help and empower people, and to rejoice in family, friendship and the many splendours that Life has to offer.

Greetings lovely listener, my name is Cat. I'm a Swedish singer-songwriter and bedroom producer. I create dreamy indie folk songs inspired by historical figures, classic literature and everyday life. I love setting classic poems to music.

Muzeum Pana Tadeusza to najnowsza i najnowocześniejsza część Ossolineum, prezentująca zbiory Zakładu na bogatym tle historycznym i literackim. Funkcjonuje od maja 2016 roku w jednej z piękniejszych kamienic Wrocławia – Pod Złotym Słońcem (Rynek 6).

Associazione “MIKRORADIO”
—
L' associazione, pur essendo “in cantiere” come idea già da aprile 2020, è nata ufficialmente il 13/02/2021 (giornata mondiale della radio...) con la voglia di divertirsi, aggregarsi (covid permettendo…) tra i soci (che presteranno il loro apporto come volontariato) e per far “rinascere” il comune di Gonzaga (frazioni comprese) dopo le privazioni che i cittadini hanno dovuto subire a causa della pandemia in corso. L’idea è quella di rifarsi alle “RADIO LIBERE” nate a metà degli anni ’70, per trasmettere informazione, cultura e musica di qualità (anche con sonorità meno consuete di quelle che “passano” nelle radio tipicamente commerciali) e ciò SENZA SCOPO DI LUCRO e per proporre iniziative culturali, coinvolgendo altre associazioni e ha in generale, la finalità di:
-realizzare programmi radiofonici musicali e d’informazione (precisando che l’associazione è totalmente apartitica e non sarà quindi permesso agli speaker e ospiti, oltre ad utilizzare un linguaggio blasfemo o altamente scurrile, conversare di politica); sono disponibili apposite pagine Facebook, Twitter, Instagram e YouTube ed un sito internet (nel quale sarà possibile con un semplice “click” ascoltare le trasmissioni dal proprio pc fisso o portatile) dove sarà inserito il palinsesto settimanale della radio, oltre che news relative agli eventi musicali culturali comunali e dei dintorni e, contingenza fondamentale, una APP scaricabile sui propri smartphone/tablet/pc dai sistemi operativi IOS (per iPhone), Android (per Samsung ecc ecc) e Huawei e che permetterà agli utenti di ascoltare la nostra radio comodamente in ogni luogo (anche all’estero).
-diffondere la cultura radiofonica e musicale nel mondo giovanile e non, attraverso le nuove tecnologie digitali;
-ampliare la conoscenza della cultura musicale, letteraria ed artistica, attraverso contatti fra persone, enti ed associazioni (abbiamo già avviato i contatti con la cooperativa sociale di Gonzaga “IL PONTE”, onde coinvolgere i ragazzi con disabilità, in progetti radiofonici e feste, in collaborazione con la nostra emittente, dove i medesimi potranno, unitamente ai nostri volontari, erogare prodotti e sentirsi parte viva della manifestazione), dando spazio ai giovani artisti emergenti (i quali verranno invitati in sede, intervistati in diretta e potranno poi proporre in versione acustica alcuni dei loro brani, per i radioascoltatori);
-allargare gli orizzonti didattici, in campo musicale e radiofonico, di educatori ed operatori sociali ovvero di tutti gli interlocutori tramite le attività dell’associazione, anche proponendo, in collaborazione con “l’officina dell’immaginazione”, corsi per speaker radiofonici (con sconto per gli associati);
-proporsi come spazio di incontro e di aggregazione nel nome di interessi culturali, assolvendo alla funzione sociale di maturazione e crescita umana, etica e civile, attraverso l’ideale di cooperazione;
-determinare e promuovere la diffusione di opere musicali in accordo diretto o indiretto con gli autori, produttori, esecutori, interpreti;
-valorizzare la cultura e l’arte (in particolare modo locale) in ogni sua espressione, particolarmente quella legata alla musica, ai suoi autori, interpreti, esecutori e quindi alla sua divulgazione con tutti i mezzi messi a disposizione dalla tecnologia. Tutto ciò deve aver luogo in condizione di rispetto delle altrui libertà;
-rendersi interpreti delle necessità territoriali e strumento prezioso di mediazione e canale d’informazione indipendente tra Enti, Autorità e Cittadini;
-organizzare e/o patrocinare eventi culturali, spettacoli, concerti, fiere;
– gestire impianti pubblici e/o privati di qualsiasi genere (sportivi, teatri, sale convegni ecc.)
-avviare un piano di promozione del territorio e dei suoi prodotti, attività, aziende;
-partecipare a programmi e iniziative a carattere Comunitario, Nazionale, Regionale Provinciale e Comunale aventi attinenza con le attività sopra citate.

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