It’s nearly time for students in Princeton University’s “How to Write a Song” to face the music.
Participants in the spring course offered by the Princeton Atelier in the Lewis Center for the Arts will present original songs at a virtual concert on April 27 at 4:30 p.m. via Zoom Webinar. The concert is free and will be live-captioned.
The students will perform selected new work written over the past semester. The class was co-taught by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon and Bridget Kearney, a founding member of the band Lake Street Dive.
Each week the students, with varying levels of literary and musical backgrounds, split into small groups to write lyrics and music on assigned “emotional topics” such as joy, despair, defiance or desire. The students performed their pieces for Muldoon, Kearney and their classmates, who then provided critiques.
Guest critics and singer-songwriters joined the class to share their experience and to listen to and provide feedback to the student songwriters, including a surprise virtual visit in February by Sir Paul McCartney.
“This semester was truly unforgettable, said Kearney. “I was astounded week after week by how much beauty and how much truth came blaring through my Zoom audio. Circumstance prevented us from meeting in person, but everyone really rose to the occasion and learned a lot of music production skills in addition to honing their songwriting craft.
“The silver lining is that at the end of the semester, we now have archived recordings of many albums worth of incredible songs,” continued Kearney, who plays bass and sings for Lake Street Dive. “The concert will be an opportunity to share some of our class favorite songs with a wider audience for the first, but certainly not the last, time.”
The Princeton Atelier is directed by Muldoon and was founded in 1994 by Nobel laureate and former faculty member Toni Morrison. It brings professional artists to the university for intensive collaborative work with students through semester-long courses.
Poet Paul Muldoon was one of the instructors for Princeton University's "How to Write a Song" class. His students will present an online concert 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 27.arts.princeton.edu
Muldoon is the Howard G.B. Clark ’21 University professor in the humanities and founding chair of the Lewis Center for the Arts. His 14th volume of poems, “Howdie-Skelp,” will be published later this year by Farrar Straus & Giroux. A selection of songs written for his rock band, Rogue Oliphant, has been published by Eyewear under the title “Sadie and the Sadists.”
Kearney is a songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer. In addition to being a founding member of Lake Street Dive, she released solo debut, “Won’t Let You Down,” in 2017 on Signature Sounds and last year released a collaborative album written and recorded in Accra, Ghana, called “Still Flying” on Verve Forecast.
For more information on the “How to Write a Song” visit arts.princeton.edu.
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