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The poem was written in 1886 and is considered to be one of Yeats's more notable early poems. The poem is based on Irish legend and concerns faeries beguiling a child to come away with them. Yeats had a great interest in Irish mythology about faeries resulting in his publication of Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry in 1888 and Fairy ...
An Appointment with Mr. Yeats is the tenth studio album by the Waterboys, released on 19 September 2011 through W14/Proper Records.The album contains 14 tracks, all of which are based upon the poetry of W. B. Yeats, a long term influence on lead-songwriter Mike Scott.
Benjamin Britten published a setting of the poem in 1943, using the tune Hughes collected. [13] In 1988, the American composer John Corigliano wrote and published his setting. [14] Hughes' setting is recorded by individuals and groups including: John McCormack (1941) Peter Pears, with piano accompaniment by Britten (1944) Kathleen Ferrier (1949)
Scott, the Edinburgh-born son of a college lecturer, is the founder and only permanent member of the Waterboys. Having begun his career in teenage Ayr punk band White Heat [8] and its Edinburgh successor Another Pretty Face, [9] he moved to London and formed another short-lived band, The Red and the Black.
It did, however, continue the Waterboys' tradition of arranging a William Butler Yeats poem, in this case "Love And Death". " The Return of Pan " is the Waterboys' second ode to the Greek deity , and the album contains a number of references to the romantic Neopaganism of Dion Fortune and the mystical Christianity of C. S. Lewis , as well as a ...
He appeared on The Waterboys's Fisherman's Blues album (1988). [2] [3] He was a regular singer on RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta and also performed on The Late Late Show several times. [citation needed] Some of his best known material include: [citation needed] The Stolen Child ** (Tomás Mac Eoin / Mike Scott) An Cailín Álainn; Bleán na Bó ...
Karl Wallinger, the multi-instrumentalist and solo force behind the band World Party and former member of The Waterboys, has died. Wallinger, 66, passed away Sunday, his publicist said.
Additionally, the poem was set to music by Donovan (on HMS Donovan, 1971), [8] and its Italian cover was recorded by Angelo Branduardi (on Branduardi canta Yeats, 1986). Other adaptations include those by The Waterboys (on An Appointment with Mr Yeats, 2011), [9] and Johnny Flynn (on Sillion, 2017).