Spring Hill Music - The Lover: The Love Poetry of Carl Sandburg

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The Lover
The Love Poetry of Carl Sandburg

Michael Hoppé & Tim Wheater

Features 18 never before collected love poems written by the famed journalist, Lincoln biographer, statesman, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the nation's much-loved "Poet of the People." The poems are read here with passion, grace, and power by Tim Wheater, and each is accompanied by a musical work especially composed by the brilliantly romantic composer Michael Hoppé. Also features 6 achingly beautiful interludes also composed by Hoppé.

“The Lover is rich and thrilling, in words and in music. Tim Wheater’s rendering of these poems is as sensuous and straight to the heart as can be believed, and I am certain that my father’s spirit is pleased. The music is in Michael Hoppé’s own distinctive style. “Beloved, “Lover’s Lament” and “The Unforgetting Heart” keep me in awe of Michael Hoppé’s genius.”

Helga Sandburg

Awards

2002 COVR (Coalition of Visionary Retailers) Awards
Winner - Spoken Word/Other

Track Listing

1. Introductions to Whatever Gardens << LISTEN! >>
2. The Great Hunt << LISTEN! >>
3. Mag
4. Interlude: Lover’s Lament << LISTEN! >>
5. Monotone
6. Joy
7. Dreams in the Dusk
8. Interlude: Beloved
9. Under the Harvest Moon
10. Home Thoughts
11. Dream Girl
12. Interlude: Lachrymosa
13. The Wind Sings Welcome in Early Spring
14. Tawny
15. The First Kiss Came with Flame
16. Interlude: The Unforgetting Heart
17. She Held Herself a Deep Pool for Him
18. Careless Hearts
19. Valley Song
20. Interlude: Grace
21. Offering and Rebuff
22. An Old Woman
23. Explanation of Love
24. Interlude: Jude’s Theme