All summer in “Behind our voices we meet eight major artists of French song who, at home, and their instrument in hand, reveal to us the secrets of their creations. Tuesday August 2her guitar in hand, Carla Bruni remembers the poets she adapted.
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So we were at Carla Bruni, who had her guitar in hand. We were talking about song and also about poetry and she sang to us Those Dancing Days Are Gone, her adaptation of a poem by William Butler Yeats. She had recorded it in 2006, on her second album. At the time, she had not experienced the embarrassment experienced by Joni Mitchell when she wanted to set the poem to music. Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Yeats.
In this episode of Behind Our Voices, you hear excerpts from:
Carla Bruni sings to us Those Dancing Days Are Gone, 2022
Joni Mitchell, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, 1991
Carla Bruni, Before the World Was Made, 2006
Carla Bruni, Autumn, 2006
Carla Bruni sings to us I Will Always Love You, 2022
Carla Bruni, The possibility of an island, 2008
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In July and August 2017, we spent A Summer in Souchon, during which Alain Souchon guided us on a tasty walk through a lifetime of love for song.