Mr. Wendell Berry of Kentucky

Wendell Berry poem covered on bluegrass album

Perhaps the most ambitious song is The Peace Of Wild Things/Dayblind, where they take Wendell Berry's moving poem ('When despair for the world grows in me') and present a mournful talking version, which then develops into a life-affirming bluegrass instrumental.

via www.telegraph.co.uk

Wendell Berry poem contributes to choral work, "Seven Songs for Planet Earth"

"A few years ago, while searching for a text for a piece commissioned by the Syracuse Vocal Ensemble, I came across some of Berry's poems," Kortekangas said. "Didn't know his work, had never heard of him, so it was 'love at first sight.' I think he's a great poet, a great thinker and somebody who lives the way he preaches, which is rare."

via washingtonexaminer.com

Richard Carlson spins Wendell Berry & others into blues

“Is it not possible that by calling to our aid the musical relation of
dissonance we may meanwhile have made the difficult problem of the
tragic effect much easier? For we now understand what it means to
wish to see tragedy and at the same time to long to get beyond all
seeing” -Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy XXIV

To try to make sense of a world in which fragile bodies collide with primal forces and inevitably fall is to do philosophy. To give voice to the many small truths of the world by allowing its suffering to speak out is to aspire to poetry. If the work of tragedy is to aestheticize suffering the blues was there at the birth of tragedy. While blues music fits within a world tradition of folk music it also shares a history with great literature, philosophy, poetry. Our project here is to begin to explore this shared history. r

credits

released 24 November 2010
Richard Carlson - Vocals, Guitar, Slide Guitar, Throat Singing 
Buddy Mohmed - Contrabass, Guitar

via richardcarlson.bandcamp.com

Mr. Carlson has set "Desolation" and "The Wheel" to music well worth hearing. His lyrics to the WB pieces and all the others as well can be found HERE.

Wendell Berry's "Generosity: The Bringer of Water, Part II"?

"Generosity: The Bringer of Water, Part II" will be presented by The Lewis County Theatre Guild on the evening of July 9, 2010, beginning at 8 p.m.

The George Morgan Thomas Home at the corner of Third and Main Streets in Vanceburg will again provide the outdoor venue for the next installment of "The Bringer of Water," performed by the Guild in July 2009.

Based on characters created by famed Kentucky writer Wendell Berry and directed by Kayla Stafford and Mike Holder, the play focuses on the lives of farmers in rural Kentucky, the themes of family and membership, and brings back the same cast of characters.

via www.maysville-online.com

I had to read this article very closely to determine that the work in question is written by Mr. Berry. I'm fairly sure that it is, but that point is nowhere set forth as a fact.

Wendell Berry and Ellen Davis featured on Speaking of Faith

June 10, 2010 » Biblical scholar Ellen Davis is helping to shape a new approach to thinking about human domination of the Earth and its creatures. With her friend, the farmer and poet Wendell Berry, they speak to our collective grief at destruction of the natural world and nourish a "chastened" yet "tenacious" hope.

via speakingoffaith.publicradio.org

Reading WB inspires songful response

WB poem featured in MN concert

The Singers do right by Larsen Larsen piece | StarTribune.com.

The concert featured the world premiere of a commission from composer-in-residence Joshua Shank. In "To My Parents" Shank sets a poem by Wendell Berry that explores a child's love. The a cappella anthem's move from haunting dissonance to full-throated major tonality became a powerful evocation of forgiveness. READ MORE ...

WB reading two poems in Louisville

Mr. Berry reads "A Letter (to Ed McClanahan)" and "A Letter (to my brother)" in Louisville ... maybe last night.

Found HERE ... thanks!

Audio of "That Distant Land" reviewed

Brief Review: THAT DISTANT LAND (Audiobook) - Wendell Berry [Vol. 3, #6].

Wendell Berry’s stories have always had the feel of being told by a storyteller in the ancient oral tradition of storytelling. Berry has crafted, in Port William, Kentucky, a believable world in which characters share life and death together. And now, in ChristianAudio’s new audiobook release of Berry’s That Distant Land, narrator Michael Kramer tells Berry’s stories with a fabulous Kentucky drawl that makes one feel as if he is a visitor hearing the local storyteller recounting events in his own town. READ MORE ...

WB's poetry included in Indiana event

idsnews.com | Indiana Daily Student |.

Music, dance, puppets and pie will come together to entertain the Bloomington community Saturday at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater.

Malcolm Dalglish’s “The Welcome Table” will begin at 8 p.m. Saturday. Tickets for the event are $18 and $25. ...

A decade of collaboration will bring Dalglish, Smiley and Joshua Kartes on stage as the vocal ensemble the Ooolites. Dalglish said their contemporary vocals replicate that of village folk singing around the world, including loud strong harmonies. He also said the event will include stories of winter told through choreographed dance and Wendell Berry poetry about land and nature. READ MORE ...