"Stopping by Woods" with my dad Fritz Rafetseder
Music by Fritz Rafetseder
This is how i got into music - my dad used to play piano at home, while id fall asleep at night. When i was 13 i started singing harmonies to his songs. His songs were poems by english or american poets that he put music to. He tought me the importance of words. So when i started out i first did the same as he did, take a poem and write music to it. Only later did i start writing my own lyrics. We recently recorded my favourite songs of his on my ipad. These are just sketches, he will make an album soon, and im very much looking forward to this.
About the song selection:
-o what is that sound by w.h. auden
Im still not sure what this poem is about, but its very dramatic in its climax when the soldiers finally come to pick up the protagonist.
-the listeners by walter de la mare
To this day fascinated by the rhythm of this song.
-the solitary reaper by wordsworth
One of my all time favourites. initially i thought it was called "behold her single in the field". Listening to this now, i think my own songs were largely influenced by the music of this.
-warning to children by robert graves
I love this poem, there are so many levels to it. you open parcel after parcel and then ur somewhere else. you go outside and inside and then u fall over. i love the movement in this.
-death in leamington by john betjeman
Heartbreakingly sad...
-sympahty by paul laurence dunbar
The civil rights hymn of the oppressed.
-at the midhour of night by thomas moore
For a long time i thought this song was called "even in the sky". This one was my favourite when id listen to him play late at night.
-lullaby by w.h. auden
One of the most beautiful poems about love and death that i know. i only came to understand this poem years later. im still doing a cover version in my set sometimes.
-stopping by woods on a snowy evening by robert frost
This is the poem that this project is called after.
-long legged fly by w.b. yeats
"His mind moves upon silence"
Im doing the harmonies ;)
Music by Fritz Rafetseder
This is how i got into music - my dad used to play piano at home, while id fall asleep at night. When i was 13 i started singing harmonies to his songs. His songs were poems by english or american poets that he put music to. He tought me the importance of words. So when i started out i first did the same as he did, take a poem and write music to it. Only later did i start writing my own lyrics. We recently recorded my favourite songs of his on my ipad. These are just sketches, he will make an album soon, and im very much looking forward to this.
About the song selection:
-o what is that sound by w.h. auden
Im still not sure what this poem is about, but its very dramatic in its climax when the soldiers finally come to pick up the protagonist.
-the listeners by walter de la mare
To this day fascinated by the rhythm of this song.
-the solitary reaper by wordsworth
One of my all time favourites. initially i thought it was called "behold her single in the field". Listening to this now, i think my own songs were largely influenced by the music of this.
-warning to children by robert graves
I love this poem, there are so many levels to it. you open parcel after parcel and then ur somewhere else. you go outside and inside and then u fall over. i love the movement in this.
-death in leamington by john betjeman
Heartbreakingly sad...
-sympahty by paul laurence dunbar
The civil rights hymn of the oppressed.
-at the midhour of night by thomas moore
For a long time i thought this song was called "even in the sky". This one was my favourite when id listen to him play late at night.
-lullaby by w.h. auden
One of the most beautiful poems about love and death that i know. i only came to understand this poem years later. im still doing a cover version in my set sometimes.
-stopping by woods on a snowy evening by robert frost
This is the poem that this project is called after.
-long legged fly by w.b. yeats
"His mind moves upon silence"
Im doing the harmonies ;)
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