Robert Pound is a professor of Music at Dickinson College.

Pound, Robert, composer, Robert Pound: Relics of Memory, poetry by Seamus Heaney, Maxine Kumin, and Paul Muldoon, with William Ferguson (tenor), Jonathan Hays (baritone), and Craig Ketter (piano), Albany Records, 2020. https://www.albanyrecords.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=TROY1824&Store_Code=AR&search=relics+of+memory&offset=&filter_cat=&PowerSearch_Begin_Only=&sort=&range_low=&range_high=

Relics of Memory features three of Robert Pound’s song cycles: Relics of Memory, unquiet spirit, and Together and Together. These three song cycles were commissioned in coordination with the awarding of The Stellfox Prize by Dickinson College to Maxine Kumin in 2010 and to Seamus Heaney and Paul Muldoon in 2014. The double award in 2014 stemmed from unusual and sad circumstances. Seamus Heaney had been notified of the prize and was planning to visit when he died unexpectedly in August 2013. The Stellfox Committee then reached out to Paul Muldoon, not only as a revered artist more than deserving of the honor in his own right, but also as a close friend and colleague of Heaney. Robert Pound composed these songs as homages to the poetry of the three Stellfox Prize laureates. These song cycles composed by Pound, performed by tenor William Ferguson and baritone Jonathan Hays with pianist Craig Ketter, pay magnify, reinforce and elaborate the affect of the poetry and its meaning. Relics of Memory Settings of Poems by Seamus Heaney Relics of Memory: I. Relic of Memory Relics of Memory: II. At Ardboe Point Relics of Memory: III. The Given Note Relics of Memory: IV. Lightenings Relics of Memory: V. Triptych Relics of Memory: VI. The Point unquiet spirit Settings of Poems by Maxine Kumin Unquiet Spirit: I. Mulching Unquiet Spirit: II. Solstice Unquiet Spirit: III. What You Do Unquiet Spirit: IV. Ascending Unquiet Spirit: V. The First Rain of Spring Unquiet Spirit: VI. Today Together and Together Settings of Poems by Paul Muldoon Together and Together: I. Macha Together and Together: II. Bigfoot Together and Together: III. Ireland Together and Together: IV. Wind and Tree Together and Together: V. The Avenue Together and Together: VI. The Weepies

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