Generation of '27

Ode to Federico Garcia Lorca

Thu, 13 May 2021 04:00:00 +0000

With Anna Hiller and Katia Noyes
Produced by Mark Pritchard
Music by Daniel Fries

Works cited:

• Pablo Neruda, "Ode to Federico García Lorca"
• César Vallejo, “España, Aparta de Mí Este Cáliz”
• Sharon Olds, "35-10"
• Vicente Huidobro, "The Poet Is a Little God: Creationist Verse"
(translated by Jorge García-Gómez, 1990)
• Federico García Lorca, "Romancero gitano"
• Federico García Lorca, "Poet in New York"

Romance sonámbulo Part 2

Mon, 19 Apr 2021 04:45:10 +0000

Recorded: 28 March 2021
With: Anna Hiller, Katia Noyes, Mark Pritchard; music by Daniel Fríes

Works cited:
• "Romance sonámbulo" by Federico García Lorca
• "Romance de la luna, luna" by Federico García Lorca

Romance sonámbulo Part 1

Sun, 24 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

In our first full episode, Anna and Katia talk about the poem Romance sonámbulo by Federico García Lorca. You can read the poem in Spanish, and in the English translation by William Bryant Logan, here.

The title can be translated as “Sleepwalking Ballad.” First published in the Revista de Occidente in 1928, the poem appears in Lorca’s Romanerco Gitano (Gypsy Ballads) published the same year.

If you’d like to read an extraordinary analysis of the poem, see this essay by Jose Antonio Serrano Segura.

Works cited:

Romance sonámbulo by Federico García Lorca
"Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" by John Lennon and Paul McCartney

Episode 00: Pilot

Mon, 4 Jan 2021 03:28:55 +0000

After this episode, each episode will focus on a work by one of the members of the Generation of '27, but in this pilot episode, we spend most of the time getting to know our host Anna Hiller, and co-host Katia Noyes.

The music is by Bay Area composer and musician Daniel Fríes (danielfriesmusic.com).

Works cited:

A.A. Milne, When We Were Very Young (link)
T.S. Eliot, Old Possums Book of Practical Cats (link)
Christina Rosetti, "Color" (link)
Don Marquis, "Archy and Mehitabel" (link)
San Juan de la Cruz, "Noche Oscura" ("Dark Night") (link)
Jorge Guillen, "Beato Sillón"
Federico Garcia Lorca, Poeta en Nueva York (link)