The Waste Land
by T.S. Eliot
Rhapsodize Audio presents a performance of the Waste Land, a cross-cultural epic first published in 1922, which, with its phantasmagoric reconstruction of language and imagery, still remains one of the most controversial poems ever written.
Performed by Caprisha Page, Denis Daly, Alan Weyman. Winston Tharp, Jannie Meisberger, Bob Gonzalez, Carol Box and Jason Mills.
Music:
The Rite of Spring by Igor Stravinsky,
Performed by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by the composer.
Rhapsodize is a classic poetry performance initiative dedicated to engaging in, encouraging, instructing, guiding, and facilitating rhapsodizing, that is, performing classic poetry. Rhapsodize represents a community and resources for solo and/or group performance and production of live, audio, and video rhapsodies, or programs, concerts, recitals, and vocal collections of classic poetry in the public domain
