Yeats' Legacy
W. B. Yeats has had a wide-reaching influence on other artists. The following list is an indication of the long-lasting impact of the man and his work on a variety of artistic types:
- A song based on a poem by William Butler Yeats. Music & Production by Herb Orenstein. Lyrics by Yeats. Vocals by Rafe Pearlman. Piano arrangement by Joe Carolus. Recorded at London Bridge Studios, Shoreline, Washington: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzKG7POgHrE
- Poem on the Irish revolutionary woman Maud Gonne and William Butler Yeats, their relationship, and the broader theme of assessing the muse's effect on a writer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= DI7Si0cJVOc
- Mike Scott of the Waterboys chats with Ronan Collins about Yeats and his music as part of RTE Big Music Week 2011: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8QuHg7v0fU
- Marese O'Sullivan interviews Irish Author Orna Ross about her forthcoming trilogy about WB Yeats & his muses, the mother and daughter Maud and Iseult Gonne. The first book of this fiction trilogy, Her Secret Rose, publishes July 2015: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwNLsNsLUVc
- Morton Subotnick's Silver Apples of the Moon, widely cited as the first piece of electronic music commissioned by a record label, is named for a line from Yeats: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HoljsO22qA
- References to Yeats' life and work in the lyrics to Bob Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine Man" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYF8Y47qZQY) have been suggested in Robert Shelton's No Direction Home: The Life and Music of Bob Dylan, and Dylan's "Desolation Row" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AL1HUsJJCzU) in the Telegraph article linked here.
- Irish rock and folk group the Waterboys put on an acclaimed show and recorded a full album of Yeats poems set to music, called An Appointment with Mr. Yeats, in 2011: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gHxoZa89s4&list=PLj0eiRYREMfnnC_F9LeMLJvFDogfFWg5j
- For more on W.B. Yeats' legacy in music, the W.B. Yeats Society of New York provides a "W.B. Yeats Discography": http://yeatssociety.org/ydiscog.html
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