Australian songwriter Paul Kelly breathes new life into the words of William Shakespeare on his latest project, Seven Sonnets & A Song. The release finds the prolific artist transforming sonnets ...
Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 and an Irish song tradition inspired Paul McCartney on The Beatles‘ “I Saw Her Standing There.” Paul used many of his literary and musical favorites in his songs. In The Lyrics ...
Hello, and greetings from Hong Kong. You asked about a piece of “music that transforms, or emulates, or sheds new light on a different work of art.” One such is David Gilmour (vocalist and guitarist ...
"So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee." -- Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 The sonnet lives! This beguilingly protean form has endured for over 700 ...
In the spring of 2016, Toronto guitarist Trevor Giancola assembled his dream band: a quartet featuring Seamus Blake, Rick Rosato, and Adam Arruda, three ex-pat Canadians making waves on the ...