Wisconsin Melody Girl

Tuesday, June 4, 2013

PoetSongs LIVE video: Wisconsin poets read their poems, with music by Charyl Zehfus

PoetSongs: a Wisconsin year in poetry and music:
Wisconsin poets read their work in Wisconsin Poets' Calendars,
followed by vocal pieces by Charyl Zehfus based on the poems
in LIVE series, John Michael Kohler Arts Center

PoetSongs LIVE, March: "St. Pat's Day" variations by Jack Jayne and Zehfus

PoetSongs LIVE, August: "Blackberry Rain" by Jean Ross and Charyl Zehfus (music)

PoetSongs LIVE, October: "On the Way to Riley" by CX Dillhunt and Zehfus

PoetSongs LIVE, July: "Fourth of July Night" by Marion H. Youngquist and Zehfus

PoetSongs LIVE, April: "Super America Invades Polish America" polka by Jeff Poniewaz and Zehfus

PoetSongs LIVE, January: "Looking up at the Milky Way thought" by Antler and Zehfus

PoetSongs LIVE, February: "Spring Sonnet" by Barbara Coan Houghton and Zehfus

PoetSongs LIVE, November: "Getting Ready" by Harvey Taylor and Zehfus

PoetSongs LIVE, May: "Wolf Walk" by Charlotte A. Cote and Zehfus (read by Bob Harker)

PoetSongs LIVE, December: "Wisconsin Snow Moon" by Louisa Loveridge-Gallas and Zehfus

Thursday, January 31, 2013

Charyl Kneevers Zehfus music: Why? rendition by Lovanova

Lovanova: Day 4 of Nine

Why? tune by Zehfus, rendition by Lovanova, Milwaukee.

Thursday, September 3, 2009

Piano Sonata #1 (clip)

Here is a clip from my first (and only, to this point) contemporary piano sonata, written while studying with Dr. John Downey at UW-Milwaukee. The piece taps an assertive energy, spinning out dissonant cells, interspersed with a syncopated silence from which the music creeps, and explodes.

Podbean account closed for now.

"On Passing": my high school epic song of angst

Here is a clip from "On Passing," an epic romantic-style mood piece I composed and recorded in high school (which explains the sound quality)
with my high school musician friends singing, playing flute and oboe. (I'm on piano.)