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Singer Creates Musical 'Conversation' with Poetry

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From: All Things Considered (NPR)
Date: 20061116
Author:MELISSA BLOCK

MELISSA BLOCK
All Things Considered (NPR)
11-16-2006
Singer Creates Musical 'Conversation' with Poetry

Host: MELISSA BLOCK
Time 21:00-22:00 PM

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Singer Kris Delmhorst talks about putting new music to old verse. What it's like having Robert Browning and E. E. Cummings as co-writers. That's next, on ALL THINGS CONSIDERED.

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In 1867, George Eliot started a poem this way: Oh may I join the choir invisible, of those immortal dead who live again in minds made better by their presence.

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