Garden of Love - JacobTV - Jared Hauser, oboe

Garden of Love, for Oboe and Boombox, by Jacob ter Veldhuis with poetry by William Blake Jared Hauser, oboe Audio/Video production by Continuous Motion Productions for oboe and boombox (soundtrack) Garden of Love, a piece for “oboe and boombox,“ is a setting of William Blake’s poem of the same title. The work includes a pre-recorded audio track (with a reading of the poem, electronic sounds, sampled oboe, harpsichord, strings, percussion and birds) to be played over a “boombox“ or other amplified sound system as the solo oboist plays in time with the track. The Garden Of Love by William Blake: I went to the Garden of Love. And saw what I had never seen, A chapel was built int he midst, Where I used to play on the green. And the gates of the chapel were shut, and Thou Shalt Not writ over the door: So I turn’d to the Garden of Love, That so many sweet flowers bore. And I saw it was filled with graves, And tomb-stones where flowers should be: And priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys and desires.