Five poems for recitation with music composed and arranged by Max Saunders
The Santa-Fe Trail
General William Booth enters into Heaven Daniel
How Samson bore away the Gates of Gaza The Congo
Voices:
Robert Adams , Marvin Kane
Guy Klngsley Poynter
Orchestra conducted by the composer
Production by Anthony Thwalte
The American poet Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931) was essentially a writer for the declamatory voice. He has been described as ' the jazz Blake, St. Francis of Assisi playing the saxophone at the Firemen's Ball.' In this programme an attempt has been made to fit appropriate music to the spoken words-music that reinforces the vigorous, sometimes raucous, sound and sense of those words.