ORIGINAL DEMOS
Peaceful Home
BOATMAN INTRO
Based on the poem “I Recently Bought a Fancy Boat...” by Yuan Hung-tao.
Translation by Jonathan Chaves. Published in Pilgrim of the Clouds, Poems and Essays from Ming Dynasty China by White Pine Press. Used by permission.
Music by Bethy Bacon. Performed by Bethy Bacon and Charlie Tokarz, flute.
North Wind
WOMEN + NOBLEWOMAN LAMENTING
Based on the poem “North Wind” by Li T'ai-p'o.
Translation by Sam Hamill. Published in Banished Immortal, Visions of Li T'ai-p'o by White Pine Press. Used by permission..
Music by Bethy Bacon. Performed by Bethy Bacon, Bian Liu Nian (erhu) and various artists.
Funny
POET INTRO
Based on the poem “On First Arriving at Huang-chou" by Su Tung-p'o.
Translation by Burton Watson. Published in Selected Poems of Su Tung-P’o by Copper Canyon Press. Used by permission of Burton Watson estate..
Music by Bethy Bacon. Performed by Bethy Bacon and Off The Beat 'n Trac Recording Studio musicians, Southfield, MA.
Yellow Cassia
NOBLEMAN REMEMBERS
Based on the original poem “To the Tune: Partridge Sky” by Li Ch'ing-chao (1084-1151). .
Translation by Sam Hamill. Published in Crossing The Yellow River, Three Hundred Poems from the Chinese by White Pine Press. Used by permission.
Music by Bethy Bacon. Performed by Bethy Bacon and Off the Beat 'n Trac Recording Studio musicians, Southfield, MA.
This Is the Practice
SERVANT GIRL TRANSCENDS TO SERVE HUMANITY
Inspired by passages from "Transforming Trouble" by Sonam Rinchen. and translated by Ruth Sonam.
Published in The Thirty-Seven Practices of Bodhisattvas by Snow Lion Press.
Music and lyrics by Bethy Bacon with additional composition by Frank Adams. Performed by Bethy Bacon and Frank Adams.