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Pop / Rock 17 February, 2011

Hollywood Stars Read Immortal Poetry Set To Classical Music On Inspirational 'words For You' Album

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Hollywood Stars Read Immortal Poetry Set To Classical Music On Inspirational 'words For You' Album
Los Angeles, CA (Top40 Charts/ EMI Music / Universal Music Enterprises) A unique album featuring great poems recited by great voices-from Jim Broadbent, Helena Bonham Carter, Ruby Dee, and Amber Rose Johnson to James Earl Jones, Garrison Keillor, Terence Stamp and Meryl Streep-and set to classical music arrives just in time for April's National Poetry Month. Words For You (Mighty Village/Universal/UMe), released April 12, 2011, brings together the emotional words of the likes of Shakespeare, Walt Whitman, Edgar Allen Poe and Maya Angelou with the powerful music of classical giants such as Chopin, Debussy, Grieg and Mahler as well as others.

Drawing on their music and the vocal brilliance of movie, television and radio stars, along with Amber Rose Johnson, the teenage winner of the 2010 Poetry Out Loud competition (a national poetry recitation contest), Words For You brings to life the words of great writers spanning the centuries. Produced by Tris Penna (Marc Almond, Andrew Lloyd Webber), the all-new album follows the unexpected global success of the 2009 U.K. disc of the same name, which hit No 1 on the compilation chart, sold more than 200,000 copies and became one of the biggest selling albums of the year there.

All artist royalties from Words For You will be donated to the charity First Book, which provides brand new, high-quality books to children in need as a means of fostering literacy.

Tracklisting:

1) On Marriage (Khalil Gibran)

Georges Bizet - La poupee (Berceuse) from Jeux d'enfants

READ BY MERYL STREEP

2) Let America Be America Again (Langston Hughes)

Stephen Darrell Smith - Recovery

READ BY JAMES EARL JONES

3) On Easter Day (Oscar Wilde)

Anton Bruckner - Symphony No. 5 in Bb major (2nd Mvt. Adagio)

READ BY JIM BROADBENT

4) The Star-Spangled Banner (Francis Scott Key)

Graham De Wilde - Shenandoah

READ BY RUBY DEE

5) A Dream Within A Dream (Edgar Allen Poe)

Gustave Mahler - Symphony No. 3 in D minor (6th Mvt. Langsam, ruhevoll, empfunden)

READ BY TERENCE STAMP

6) Warning (Jenny Joseph)

Antonin Dvorak - Waltz No. 1 (Op. 54)

READ BY HELENA BONHAM CARTER

7) Once I Pass'd Through A Populous City (Walt Whitman)

Francisco Tarrega - Adelita

READ BY GARRISON KEILLOR

8) Sonnet CXVI (William Shakespeare)

Edvard Grieg - Arietta (Op. 12) from Lyric Pieces

READ BY AMBER ROSE JOHNSON

9) Happiness (Raymond Carver)

Claude Debussy - Prelude a l'apres midi d'un faune

READ BY TERENCE STAMP

10) Phenomenal Woman (Maya Angelou)

Music by Stephen Darrell Smith

READ BY RUBY DEE

11) If (Rudyard Kipling)

Guiseppe Verdi - La Forza del Destino (Overture)

READ BY JIM BROADBENT

12) A Dream (Christina Rossetti)

Bedrich Smetana - My Country

READ BY HELENA BONHAM CARTER

13) Because I Could Not Stop For Death (Emily Dickinson)

Antonio Vivaldi - The Four Seasons Concerto No. 3 "Autumn" (Mvt. 2 Largo)

READ BY MERYL STREEP

14) When Lilacs Last In The Dooryard Bloom'd (Walt Whitman)

Frederic Chopin - Prelude No. 13 in F major

READ BY JAMES EARL JONES

15) Topography (Sharon Olds)

Edvard Grieg - Piano Concerto in A minor (Op. 16 excerpt, 2nd Mvt.)

READ BY GARRISON KEILLOR

16) Today Is Ours, Let's Live It (Anonymous)

Music by Stephen Darrell Smith

READ BY RUBY DEE

17) All The World's A Stage (William Shakespeare)

John Downland - Gagliarde

READ BY JIM BROADBENT

18) A Blessing (James Wright)

Felix Mendelssohn - Notturno from A Midsummer Night's Dream (Op. 21/61)

READ BY GARRISON KEILLOR

19) Silver (Walter De La Mare)

Frederic Chopin - Nocturne in CNo minor

READ BY HELENA BONHAM CARTER

20) Solitude (Ella Wheeler Wilcox)

Francisco Tarrega - Gran Vals

READ BY MERYL STREEP

21) Endymion (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

Robert Schumann - Kind im Einschlummern from Kinderscenen (Op. 15)

READ BY TERENCE STAMP

22) Walking Down Park (Nikki Giovanni)

Music by Stephen Darrell Smith

READ BY AMBER ROSE JOHNSON






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