I’ve really grown fond of Millay’s lyric poems over the past few years. Thanks for your kind words.

Thanks very much, and in particular thanks very much for the mention of “having a coke with you”, one of O’Hara’s poems I did not know (but should).

I found this site with sound clips in which O’Hara reads the poem, as well as several other of his works.

http://www.ubu.com/sound/oh...

In this remix, I was trying to sort out how to voice the synth melody. All my usual suspects—a wave file of a nose whistle, a snippet of a coagula light rendering of a photograph of a Canadian friend—were not sounding right. Then I recalled that “ooo, ooo” section of “March”, and found it would make a fun, breathy voice for the song.

Peter Yearsley had mentioned this reading to me when I asked him about others of his that he enjoyed. Now that I think about it,
although his very English voice is different from Millay’s accent, there is something appropriate about a New York/UK connection in the reading of this particular poem.

Thanks again for your kindness—and of course for the sample!

Mixter Jobobarikan made a fun flash animation of the little Millay poem I set to a melody sampled from your March. I thought you might enjoy it, and so refer you here:

http://jobobarikan.devianta...

I love the way that one thing leads to another and to another, and another, as we all sample together.

Thank you for taking the time to listen and to write this review. I think I’m kind of an acquired taste, and it might be more fun if I were simpler in my approach. I know what you mean about simplistic taste—sometimes I like to think “how long would the Ramones make this song?”. thanks for the kind words about this song.

Thank you! and thank you for letting me know! I am off to watch now.