Cat Victoria

Happy New Year Lovely Listeners!

I had many small channel wins this year, it might not seem much to the world but for me 12 subscribers is a great achievement.

Thank you to everyone who watched, liked, commented and subscribed.

More classic poems set to music are coming soon so stay tuned!

Vintage illustration from 1890.

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Cat Victoria

Tread lightly, she is near
Under the snow,
Speak gently, she can hear
The daisies grow...

Poem written by Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900) in memory of his younger sister who died aged 9. It seems like he never got over her death.

The artwork is a detail from an illustration called “Two women in the snow on Yanagi Bridge” by the Japanese artist Ohara Koson (1877-1945).

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A poem by Lord Byron for my fellow introverts...

Artwork by the Hungarian painter Lajos Csordák (1864 – 1937).

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Feeling a bit nostalgic like the speaker in this poem…
Poem by the English writer Emily Brontë (1818 – 1848).
Artwork by the French artist Claude Monet (1840  – 1926).

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New video of me playing one of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s most famous poems is up. This poem “Music when Soft Voices Die” describes how the memories of our loved ones live on even after they are gone. The poem was published two years after Shelley’s death, in 1824, and we don’t know if it’s a finished piece or if he intended to rework it.

The artwork is a vintage illustration called “Music fills the soul with joy” published by L.Prang & Co.

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New lyric video for my single “Clown In The Moon” is out now. “Clown In The Moon” is a poem by the British poet and writer Dylan Thomas (1914-1953). The artwork in this picture is a vintage illustration by the Japanese painter Ohara Koson (1877-1945) called “Plum blossom and full moon”.

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New video is up of me playing my version of "A Red, Red Rose" by the Scottish poet Robert Burns. "A Red, Red Rose" is a famous romantic song (often published as a poem) from 1794. The artwork is a vintage illustration of a blood-red Bengal rose by the Belgian painter Pierre-Joseph Redouté.

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New lyric video for my single “Stars” is out now. “Stars” is a poem by the American writer Sara Teasdale Sara Teasdale (1884 – 1933) that describes the beauty of a starry night sky. I love this short but beautiful poem! The artwork is a vintage painting by the French artist Étienne Léopold Trouvelot (1827-1895) called “The November meteors“.

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Cat Victoria

Lyric video for my new single “Joan of Arc (Instrumental Version)” is out now. Just like the title suggests the song is inspired by the legendary French saint Joan or Arc / Jeanne d’Arc. This is what the song looks like in my digital audio workstation (Reaper), it took a long time to arrange and produce. For some producers this amount of tracks is a walk in the park but for me this is a lot!

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New classic poem set to music! "There Will Come Soft Rains" is an anti-war poem by the American writer Sara Teasdale (1884 – 1933). The poem describes a harmonious world without human beings. Although the poem was written over a hundred years ago it will continue to stay relevant as long as mankind engage in war. The artwork is an illustration of two flame-breasted robins by the British artist Elizabeth Gould (1804–1841).

Poem:

There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,
And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;

And frogs in the pools singing at night,
And wild plum-trees in tremulous white;

Robins will wear their feathery fire
Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire;

And not one will know of the war, not one
Will care at last when it is done.

Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree
If mankind perished utterly;

And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn,
Would scarcely know that we were gone.


#poem #poetry #sarateasdale

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