{"id":4232,"date":"2017-06-15T20:33:54","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T20:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jenniferbellor.com\/?page_id=4232"},"modified":"2022-07-29T21:50:39","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T21:50:39","slug":"songs-in-the-dark","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.jenniferbellor.com\/?page_id=4232","title":{"rendered":"SONGS IN THE DARK (2017) &#8211; EP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Songs in the Dark\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/56VZPIRAykQhMDT8Ol8PTV?si=rjfUpNQPTMSjb9vigkMO9A&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-4284\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jenniferbellor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Album-Cover-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jenniferbellor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Album-Cover-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.jenniferbellor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Album-Cover-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.jenniferbellor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Album-Cover-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.jenniferbellor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Album-Cover-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.jenniferbellor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Album-Cover-109x109.jpeg 109w, https:\/\/www.jenniferbellor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Album-Cover-100x100.jpeg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>Fusing contemporary art song with pop and alternative rock, <em><strong>Songs in the Dark<\/strong><\/em> is a musical exploration into the dark, haunting and evocative poetry of Emily Bront\u00eb (1818-1848) and John Donne (1572-1631).<\/p>\n<h5>Credits<\/h5>\n<p>Jennifer Bellor, composer and singer<br \/>Christina Wright-Ivanova, piano<br \/>Jason Corpuz, synth<br \/>Summer Kodama, electric bass<\/p>\n<p>Ron George, mixing at UNLV<br \/>Chuck Foley, recording at UNLV<br \/>Gil Kaupp, mastering<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zenritual.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zen Ritual Creative Services<\/a>, album cover photo<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6XYd6xYnh8I\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Creative Music Video for <em>I&#8217;ll Not Weep<\/em> produced by Allen Muresan and Petrina Olson of Zen Ritual Creative Services LLC<\/p>\n<h2><strong>I. I\u2019ll Not Weep (poem \u201cStanzas\u201d by Emily Bront\u00eb)<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>I&#8217;ll not weep that thou art going to leave me,<br \/>There&#8217;s nothing lovely here;<br \/>And doubly will the dark world grieve me,<br \/>While thy heart suffers there.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll not weep, because the summer&#8217;s glory<br \/>Must always end in gloom;<br \/>And, follow out the happiest story\u2014<br \/>It closes with a tomb!<\/p>\n<p>And I am weary of the anguish<br \/>Increasing winters bear;<br \/>Weary to watch the spirit languish<br \/>Through years of dead despair.<\/p>\n<p>So, if a tear, when thou art dying,<br \/>Should haply fall from me,<br \/>It is but that my soul is sighing,<br \/>To go and rest with thee.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>II. Air &amp; Angels (excerpt from poem \u201cAir and Angels\u201d by John Donne)<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Twice or thrice had I lov&#8217;d thee,<br \/>Before I knew thy face or name;<br \/>So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame<br \/>Angels affect us oft, and worshipp&#8217;d be;<br \/>Still when, to where thou wert, I came,<br \/>Some lovely glorious nothing I did see.<br \/>But since my soul, whose child love is,<br \/>Takes limbs of flesh, and else could nothing do,<br \/>More subtle than the parent is<br \/>Love must not be, but take a body too;<br \/>And therefore what thou wert, and who,<br \/>I bid Love ask, and now<br \/>That it assume thy body, I allow,<br \/>And fix itself in thy lip, eye, and brow.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>III. The Night is Darkening (poem \u201cThe Night is Darkening Round Me\u201d by Emily Bront\u00eb)<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The night is darkening round me,<br \/>The wild winds coldly blow;<br \/>But a tyrant spell has bound me,<br \/>And I cannot, cannot go.<\/p>\n<p>The giant trees are bending<br \/>Their bare boughs weighed with snow;<br \/>The storm is fast descending,<br \/>And yet I cannot go.<\/p>\n<p>Clouds beyond clouds above me,<br \/>Wastes beyond wastes below;<br \/>But nothing drear can move me;<br \/>I will not, cannot go.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>IV. Interlude: Frozen<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>piano solo performed by Christina Wright-Ivanova<\/p>\n<h2><strong>V. Fall, Leaves, Fall (poem \u201cFall, Leaves, Fall\u201d by Emily Bront\u00eb)<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away;<br \/>Lengthen night and shorten day;<br \/>Every leaf speaks bliss to me<br \/>Fluttering from the autumn tree.<br \/>I shall smile when wreaths of snow<br \/>Blossom where the rose should grow;<br \/>I shall sing when night\u2019s decay<br \/>Ushers in a drearier day.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Fusing contemporary art song with pop and alternative rock, Songs in the Dark is a musical exploration into the dark, haunting and evocative poetry of Emily Bront\u00eb (1818-1848) and John Donne (1572-1631). 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