Since you probably know me as a singer-songwriter / translator and this Global Village Bard blog as a song and poetry translation site, I thought I’d try to explain the new direction taken by my alter ego Thomas Riffmatch and Read More …
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Translating Lermontov’s 1831-go IYUNYA 11 DNYA
A discussion of some of the problems arising during the course of attempting a ‘musical’ verse translation of Lermontov’s early lyric poem 1831-go IYUNYA 11 DNYA is presented. A metrical analysis of the poem’s prosodic features is carried out in Read More …
I will survive
My life matters… at least, to me… but why?
Who wills survives to will again… but who am I?
The Law of Noncontradiction
I don’t care what you say if you don’t disobey my law of noncontradiction
Sail of Destiny Festival, Pyatigorsk, 13-19 October 2020
Orchestral score of Жив поэт! | The Bard is not Dead! – presentation at “Sail of Destiny” festival, Pyatigorsk, Oct 13-19 2020
Welcome!
Hello! Whatever path brought you here, I am glad you made it! I’m Thomas Beavitt and global village bard is the artistic programme I founded. Here you will find not only my own work, but also that co-authored and produced Read More …
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 …
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 …