Hello! Whatever path brought you here, I am glad you made it to the destination! I’m Thomas Beavitt and this site is my brainchild. However, you will also find lots of work co-produced with my various collaborators: translators, singers, dancers, Read More …
Author: Tommy
The Bard is not dead! | Жив поэт!
The Bard is not dead! | Жив поэт! is a song cycle composed by Thomas Beavitt around English translations of eight poems written by the Russian poet Mikhail Yuryevitch Lermontov. Intended to be performed by a male singer either to Read More …
Heraclitus Flow
Vitruvian Woman In the beginning, the world started spinning – a disk that accreted from void. Creator’s intentions produced more dimensions, each lest the last be destroyed. And out of affinity strode masculinity, clutching his logos referral, But deep in Read More …
Rhyming Thomas & the Faery Queen | Томас Рифмач и Королева эльфов
Rhyming Thomas & the Faery Queen ‘Twas at the breaking of the day As wandered I in heartsome moan All in the merry month of May By Huntly Banks, myself alone. The chirping finch, the warbling thrush The blackbird trilling Read More …
На смерть Байрона | On the death of Byron
На смерть Байрона (1824) О чем средь ужасов войныТоска и траур погребальный?Куда бегут на звон печальныйСвященной Греции сыны?Давно от слез и крови взмоклаЭллада средь святой борьбы;Какою ж вновь бедой судьбыГрозят отчизне Фемистокла? Чему на шатком троне радТиран роскошного Востока,За что Read More …
Герой | Hero
«Герой», Александр Пушкин Что есть истина? Друг Да, слава в прихотях вольна. Как огненный язык, она По избранным главам летает, С одной сегодня исчезает И на другой уже видна. За новизной бежать смиренно Народ бессмысленный привык; Но нам уж то Read More …
Review of Vitruvian Woman by Jock Urquhart
A ten minute snapshot of global history, politics and philosophy, it’s an ambitious and sprawling piece confidently presented by Beavitt and his collaborators. I imagine Tommy with a wry smile on his face as he performs his impressive, wordy tour Read More …
Vitruvian Woman
Reconstructed rap – or “beat poetry” – with a philosophical twist!
When a harp rings out boldly in eternal halls of fame
Sand animation by Moscow artist Ekaterina Sheffer illustrating a contemporary English version of Lermontov’s poem 1831-go IYUNYA 11 DNYA. The poem, translated and recited by global village bard and Ekaterinburg resident Thomas Beavitt, is accompanied by original music specially composed Read More …
The bard is dead!
A few months ago at the “Sail of Destiny” festival in Pyatigorsk, Thomas Beavitt gave this impromptu performance of Lermontov’s Смерть поэта (The Bard is Dead!), which was composed on the occasion of the death of Lermontov’s idol Pushkin in Read More …