William Butler Yeats poet "A Crazed Girl" - Hovatter; Amy Foote, soprano

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Poetry by William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)

That crazed girl improvising her music.
Her poetry, dancing upon the shore,

Her soul in division from itself
Climbing, falling She knew not where,
Hiding amid the cargo of a steamship,
Her knee-cap broken, that girl I declare
A beautiful lofty thing, or a thing
Heroically lost, heroically found.

No matter what disaster occurred
She stood in desperate music wound,
Wound, wound, and she made in her triumph
Where the bales and the baskets lay
No common intelligible sound
But sang, 'O sea-starved, hungry sea.'

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Composer: Kyle Hovatter (2011)

Amy Foote, soprano

Stepan Rudenko, piano



SFNewMusic and Nonsemble 6 Collaborative Concert: "For the End of Time" 
Zion Lutheran Church, San Francisco, CA

May 14, 2011

Program Note:
"A Crazed Girl" is a setting of the similarly titled poem by William Butler Yeats. The tragic poem is a literal telling of Yeats' relationship with the mentally unstable Margot Ruddock. Her infatuation with Yeats is analogous to that of the sea. Yet at once impassioned, both impartially move forward without her.

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[paparotzie]

Crazy girl

Amy! Very nice voice. good keyboard work.!

[sailingmanuel]

Thumbs up!!

[johnnielawson]

Wonderful interpretation.

Johnnie

[tomasocarthaigh]

Well arranged, and the lrics find it hard to fit to music. The singer gives great feeling to it...

[sthugh]

Not really the kind of thing I know much about, but it seems pretty well done for avant-garde to me.

[JustAudio2008]

Very beautiful - thanks for sharing

[J0E90]

Excellent.

[65maho]

☆☆☆☆☆

Really spectacular performance!... congratulations on this!

[soniameh]

Wow that is a very good performance indeed :)

Regards,

Himanshu

[kelborgui]

Actually the song is all about the name.

Very good, congratulations!