Grant Scott of the English Department at Muhlenberg College asked me to set some of Blake’s poems from Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience to music. I performed them in his course on English Romantic poetry in 2014. Ted Conner of Muhlenberg’s Music Department joined me on electric guitar for London. I also play an arrangement of Hubert Parry’s music to Blake’s Jerusalem.

The Tyger. Text William Blake, Music © Roland Kushner 2014
London. Text William Blake, Music © Roland Kushner 2014. Ted Conner, electric guitar
Holy Thursday. Text William Blake, Music © Roland Kushner 2014
Jerusalem. Text William Blake, Music Hubert Parry, arrangement © Roland Kushner 2014
Ecchoing Green. Text William Blake, Music © Roland Kushner 2014