Thursday's afternoon's Classical Music with Foley Schuler represents a double celebration—of both Nationional Poetry Month and of the brithday of the seminal French poet, Charles Baudelaire, whose visionary verses many consider to represent to birth of modernism in literature. Featured works include a selection drawn from Debussy's Five Poems of Charles Baudelaire with mezzo soprano Susan Graham, and James Galway will perform music for flute and orchestra inspired by Baudelaire's great poem "Invitation to a Voyage," from his masterpiece, Les Fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil). As a sidelight, we'll also hear music by Cyril Scott, who, in addition to being a prolific composer, was also a writer and poet, who, in 1909, published one of the early English language translations of Les Fleurs du mal.
You can hear Foley Schuler's musical selection—and stories behind the music—every weekday afternoon from 1 until 4 on Blue Lake Public Radio.
