The Dreaming Place: Recent Episodes
Sara Hillis
A poem about finding eternal things where you least expect them to be. Note that the concept of death here is meant to be taken spiritually.
A poem about the solitary life as practiced by Christian monastics in many times and many places
It's yet another Dickinson poem. You might know it as Poem 949, but in the current scholarly numbering it is Poem 1068. I'm calling it "Under the LIght, Yet Under." I hope you enjoy it.
In this episode, I share my fourteenth setting of an Emily Dickinson poem: this time, Poem 448 which I'm calling "I Died For Beauty." Enjoy!
In this episode, I share my thirteenth Emily Dickinson setting, this time of Poem 466, which I'm calling "I Dwell in Possibility." Enjoy!
This episode features my setting of the poem that functions as the Prologue to Through the Looking-glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll. I call it "Child of the Pure Unclouded Brow." Enjoy!
December 10 is Emily Dickinson's 190th birthday, so in honour of that occasion, here is my latest Dickinson setting, poem 519, which I'm calling "This is My Letter to the World." Enjoy!
On this episode of The Dreaming Place, it's another original song, lyrics and music by me, called "The Light that Knows No Evening." Enjoy!
This episode features an original composition I recently wrote called "Until Tomorrow." I hope you enjoy it, and I apologize for the long absence.
This episode features my eleventh setting of a poem by Emily Dickinson and my ninth since beginning this podcast. It's Poem 453 in the Harvard numbering and I'm calling it "Our Journey had Advanced." Enjoy!
This is the tenth poem by Emily Dickinson that I have set to music so far, the eighth since beginning this podcast just a few short months ago. It's Poem 161, and I'm calling my song "The Daisy Follows Soft the Sun."
Another poem by Emily Dickinson is the subject of this experiment in composition. it's Poem 140, and I'm calling my setting of it "Bring Me the Sunset in a Cup."
This episode features my setting of an other of Emily Dickinson's poems, this one being 148 in the official numbering. I'm calling it "Will There Really be a Morning?" I hope you enjoy it.
Here's another setting of an Emily Dickinson poem, my seventh in all and my fifth since beginning this podcast in march. It's Poem 3 in the Harvard numbering, and I'm calling it "On this Wondrous Sea." Enjoy!
This is my latest Emily Dickinson setting. This time, it's poem 314, which I'm calling here "Hope is the Thing with Feathers." Also, please note that this podcast will no longer be produced daily, but it will still be published a number of times per week. Enjoy!
This is my latest composition, a setting of Poem 320 in the Emily Dickinson corpus. I'm calling it "There's a Certain Slant of Light."
This song, posted earlier on the podcast but worth looking at again, means a lot to me. It's my setting of the poem "Remember" by Christina Rossetti.
Don't worry. I'm back! Today, we're looking back at one of the original songs I composed as a result of doing this podcast: "Sufficient to the Day."
Today, we look back at a song that's very special to me: "Elegy for Unicorns," poem by Father James M. Deschene, music by me. The poem is used by permission.
We're revisiting a folk song this time, my version of "The Spinning Wheel," written by Delia Murphy.
We take another trip into the archives for an instrumental piece I composed called "No Fixed Plans."
It's the second part of our two-episode mini-theme. This time, it's my setting of "Pan's Song" by Kenneth Graham from The Wind in the Willows.
This is another trip into the archives for the beginning of a two-episode mini-theme. It's my setting of "A Musical Instrument" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
Here's a very summery song in honour of the suddenly summery weather we're having in this part of the world: another look at my setting of the E. Pauline Johnson poem "The Song My Paddle Sings."
Today, we look back at the first song ever featured on this podcast: the Lewis Carroll poem "A Boat Beneath a Sunny Sky."
Here's more from the March, 2020 virtual house concert I broadcast on my radio show called Come by the Hills on Mushroom FM. It's a live version of a song from my album called The Laurel Tree. it's a setting of the W. B. Yeats poem "The Host of the Air."
This is a live performance recorded from a virtual house concert I broadcast on my radio show called Come by the Hills on Mushroom FM on March 22,, 2020. It's called "The Blacksmith."
This is another recording taken from the virtual house concert I performed in march on my radio show called Come by the Hills on Mushroom FM. This time, it's a folk song called "Bonny Portmore."
In honour of the 124th anniversary of the death of Emily Dickinson (December 10, 1830-May 15, 1886,) I present a brand new setting of a poem I just discovered recently. Called "The Secret" when it was first printed and not by Emily's own choice, I've chosen to title it after its first line: "Some Things That Fly There Be."
This is a version of the folk song "She Moved Through the Fair" as performed by me during a virtual house concert I did in March, 2020, on my Celtic radio show on Mushroom FM.
This is my setting of one of Hopkins's so-called 'Terrible Sonnets.' It's called "No Worst, There is None," and he really means it!
This is my setting of the beautiful poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson called "Crossing the Bar."
This is my setting of the Dylan Thomas poem called "Do Not go Gentle into That Good Night."
This is my setting of the Tennyson poem from The Princess called "The Splendour Falls."
This is my setting of yet another Yeats poem called "The Host of the Air." It's taken from my album called The Laurel Tree.
This is my setting of William Blake's poem called "The Lamb" as it appears on my album called The Laurel Tree.
This is my setting of the William Butler Yeats poem "The Song of Wandering Aengus," and it's taken from my album called The Laurel Tree.
This is Track 1 on my album called The Laurel Tree. it's my setting of the poem "Kubla Khan" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Here's another piece of archival audio, recorded live at a local folk club on March 1, 2013. This is the poem by Robert Frost called "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" as set by me to the folk tune called "The Lark in the Clear air."
This is my latest composition, a setting of poem 1286 by Emily Dickinson, which I am calling "There Is No Frigate Like a Book."
This is a song I composed yesterday. It's my setting of a sonnet by Canadian poet Archibald Lampman called "Voices of Earth."
This is a recording taken from another live set that I did at a local folk club some years ago. It's Robbie Burns this time.
This is another recording taken from a live set that I did in March of 2013. It's my rendition of "Raglin Road," poem by Patrick Cavanagh and music by Luke Kelly.
This is taken from a live recording I made in March of 2013 at a local folk club I used to attend. It's my rendering of "Paddy's Lamentation."
This is my setting of yet another poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins. This time, it's "Heaven-Haven (A Nun Takes the Veil)."
This is my setting of the poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins called "The Windhover (To Christ Our Lord.)" I'm going to take a break from posting as I celebrate Easter according to the Orthodox Christian calendar, but I'll be back with Day 26 on Monday, April 20.
This is a folk song written by a woman named Delia Murphy. It's called The Spinning Wheel, and this time, I'm accompanying myself on the guitar.
This is an instrumental I composed several years ago. Perhaps aptly for our current times, it's called "No Fixed Plans."
Another selection from Hopkins today, this time my setting of "Spring and Fall (To a Young Child)."
Today, I chose my setting of a poem by William Ernest Henley called "Over the Hills and Far Away."
This is my setting of another poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins. Today, it's "God's Grandeur."
This is my setting of a beautiful poem found in the novel The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Graham. I call it pan's Song. It's from the chapter entitled "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn."
This is a very special song, the lyrics of which were written by a friend of mine: Father James M. Deschene. They are used by permission, and this is my setting of his poem which is called "Elegy for Unicorns."
Today, we have some more from Rossetti. This is my setting of one of her poems which was suggested to me by a friend: "A Dirge."
This is my own original song and lyrics, written as a tribute to my best friend and sister of the heart, Shannon Marie Smith, who died suddenly at the age of 40 on September 16, 2017.
This time, some more Emily Dickinson. This is my setting of poem 479, which I've titled "Because I Could not Stop for Death."
Today, it's time for some Tennyson. This is my setting of one of his songs from "The Princess." It's called "Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal."
This is Soothing Singles Day 8. This time, I present my setting of a very interesting poem by William Butler Yeats called "To the Rose Upon the Rood of Time."
For Day 6, I present my setting of "The Road not Taken" by Robert Frost. have fun taking the road less traveled--or not.
It's Day 5 of Soothing Singles! Today, it's my setting of the Longfellow poem "Excelsior."
This is Day 4 of Soothing Singles! Today I present my setting of a poem by Walter de la Mare: "Voices."
Day 3 of Soothing Singles! this time, I present my setting of a lovely poem by Canadian poet Pauline Johnson: "The Song my Paddle Sings."
This is Day 2 of Soothing Singles! Today, I'm featuring my setting of a poem by Elizabeth barrett Browning: "A Musical Instrument."
This is Day 1 of Soothing Singles: a song a day for solace and consolation, best taken with plenty of tea. This features my setting of the Lewis Carroll poem "A Boat Beneath a Sunny Sky."