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Sunday’s Outlander episode reminded me of how much I love Samuel Barber’s music. It also completely yanked me out of the story, so that was unfortunate. But back to Samuel Barber. I never met a suspension I didn’t love—let alone open fourths and fifths—so his music always grips, moves, and transports me to that place Read More
One of the things I love about Christmas is music like this. Source: Meet the godfathers of the Christmas carol – BBC News Read More
Sea Song “Sea Song” by Norah Mary Holland (1876-1925); Gwyneth Van Anden Walker, Composer I will go down to the sea again, to the waste of waters, wild and wide; I am tired–so tired–of hill and plain and the dull tame face of the country-side. I will go out across the bar, with a swoop like the flight Read More
The hero and heroine are spending the night in a monastery. Time for vespers. Read More
Oh the snow it melts the soonest when the winds begin to sing; And the corn it ripens fastest when the frosts are setting in; And when a young man tells me that my face he’ll soon forget, Before we part, I’d bet a crown, he’d be fain to follow it yet. Oh the Read More
Music by Richard Rodney Bennett “Birds’ lament”, from Madrigals and Chronicles, published 1924 Lyrics by John Clare (1793-1864) Oh, says the linnet, if I sing, My love forsook me in the spring and nevermore will I be seen without my satin gown of green. Oh, says the pretty feathered jay, Now my love is gone Read More
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