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From:  Michael Eckford <michaelb@i...>
Date:  Tue Apr 25, 2000  8:08 am
Subject:  Re: [vocalist-temporary] the most beautiful songs


Strauss:
Zueignung
Morgen
Cacilie

almost anything by Vaughan Williams, especially:
Five Mystical Songs
Songs of Travel, especially Let Beauty Awake
Serenade to Music

Duparc:
Phydilé (sp.?)

standards like:
My Foolish Heart
I'll Be Seeing You
Love Walked In

pop ballads:
A Whiter Shade of Pale
The Long and Winding Road

Sondheim:
No One Is Alone

"Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen" - Mahler

Gershwin - Bess You is My Woman Now
Ivor Novello - My Life Belongs to You (just performed these last two in a
concert with a certain goddess friend of mine, which helped to make them and her
even more beautiful...:o))

As others have expressed, this is a lovely topic and I'm sure I will think of
other songs...

Michael Eckford
michaelb@i...
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada


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