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Jerome Rothenberg


photo: Layle Silbert (1972)


LINEbreak interview with Charles Bernstein (1996)

PennSound Podcast Featuring Jerome Rothenberg (15:41)


Horse Songs & Other Soundings (S Press, 1975):
1. Horse Songs I (7:47)
2. Horse Songs X (4:25)
3. Horse Songs XI (4:09)
4. Horse Songs XII (5:57)
5. Horse Songs XIII (5:44)
6. Salamanca a Prophecy (Seneca Journal) (0:26)
7. Shaking the Pumpkin - opening songs (13:26)
8. Shaking the Pumpkin & Seneca Journal (3:08)
9. Seneca Journal 1 (10:11)
Rothenberg discusses "Horse Songs" and "total translation" at UBUWEB.


Multitrack recording with Jean-Charles Francois, percussion, and Bertram Turetzky, bass, circa  1975
That Dada Strain

1. Karawane (1:48)
2. A Glass Tube Ecstacy (2:27)
3. London Onion (1:44)
4. The Holy Words of Tristan Tzara (9:11)
5. Y-V (After Tristan Tzara) (2:01)


Poland 1931
1. The Wedding (3:45)
2. The King of the Jews (1:18)
3. The Beadle's Testimony (1:49)
4. The Rabbi's Testimony (1:51)
5. The 7 Melodies of Esther K. (4:04)
6. Esther K. Comes to America (4:43)
Performed by Jerome Rothenberg (voice), Jean-Charles François (percussion) and Bertram Turetzky (bass).
Recorded: circa 1985; originally produced as a private cassette



Horse Songs (four voices, 1978):
Part One (24:20)
Part Two (13:22)


University of California, San Diego, c. 1993
1. "Why was it the apple and not the pomegranate?" (0:35): MP3
2. About Lorca Variations (0:44): MP3
3. From Lorca Variations (5:24): MP3
4. Old Man Beaver's Blessing Song (2:12): MP3
Complete Reading (9:50): MP3

Reading selections from Poems for the Millennium with Pierre Joris at the Kelly Writers House, 1998


Radio Readings Project (April 24, 1999):
1. A Paradise of Poets (1:45)
2. At Tsukiji Market, Tokyo October 19, 1996 (8:40)
3. Three Paris Elegies (7:40)
4. New Improvisations (9:32)
5. Anger, a Dream & Pain (1:34)
6. First Night Poem for Jackson Mac Low - Variations & Collage (8:40)
7. Discussion (14:29)

Reading at San Diego State University, February 28, 2001 (1:04:30): RealAudio


Signature (2001)
1. A Book of Witness (34:24)
2. Khurbn (12:06)
3. 14 Stations (8:34)
4. At Tsukiji Market Tokyo (8:06)
5. Paris Elegies (8:46)
Produced by Charlie Morrow. All music and sound was composed, created and performed by Charlie Morrow. Originally published by Granary Books and Charles Morrow Associates in an edition of 100 copies on the occasion of Jerome Rothenberg's 70th Birthday Celebration at the Poetry Project, St. Mark's Church, NYC, Dec 12, 2001. Poems 1989, 1996, 1999, 2001 Jerome Rothenberg. Texts originally published by New Directions. Music and Sound © 2001 Other Media (ASCAP) NY, NY. All rights reserved.


Rothenberg & the Klezmatics, 2002
Galician Nights, 2002 (6:26)


on Cross-Cultural Poetics #13 (hosted by Leonard Schwartz), 2003
complete program (27:45): MP3


In Memorium: Jackson Mac Low, recorded with Charlie Morrow, 2008
1. Jerome Rothenberg & Charlie Morrow — In Memorium: Jackson Mac Low (18:17): MP3
2. Charlie Morrow — Awakenings for Jackson Mac Low (15:52): MP3


Kelly Writers House Fellows Program, April 28-29, 2008
April 28th Reading (1:32:08): MP3   Streaming QuickTime Video
April 29th Discussion with Al Filreis (1:14:21): MP3   Streaming QuickTime Video


Also on PennSound:
Secular Jewish Culture/Radical Poetic Practice
Jerome Rothenberg at the benefit reading for Will Alexander (7:45): mp3




 

These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial and educational use only. All rights to this recorded material belong to the author. © 2004-2008 Jerome Rothenberg. Used with permission of Jerome Rothenberg. Distributed by PennSound.