On Fri, 19 May 2000, Geraldine Consoli wrote:
> Hello everyone, you may not have missed me because I didn't dare > contribute very often, but I have missed you. I have just re-subscribed > following suffering from the "pretty park" virus and assorted "other > job" pressures. >
Ah, yes, we Macintosh users are getting another nice chuckle out of this one. Smugness is a terrible thing to waste. :)
> I am hoping for a few suggestions of songs I could include in a short > recital that will be combined with some solo piano and one or two poetry > readings. This is to be held at our village school in October and as it > is a rural parish on the edge of the Fens in Cambridgeshire I thought a > sort of "cow pat" theme might be suitable. We are also situated next to > the Great Ouse river and it would be lovely to select music that could > tie in with our locality I think. The audiance will be mainly made up of
How about Charles Ives' "Grantchester", which is a setting of Rupert Brooke's poem of the same name, and which features a clever musical quotation from Debussy's "L'Apres-midi d'un Faune"? I know it's nowhere near the Fens, and it's the Cam and not the Ouse, but at least it's the same county. :)
Elizabeth Shrimpton of the Ely Writers' Circle has written at least one song about the Fens, called "The Black Fen". I know nothing about the song- whether it's art song, folk song, or what, but you may want to contact Ms. Shrimpton for more information about her songs - if they prove to be interesting, they might be exactly what you need for this recital. You can reach Elizabeth Shrimpton care of the East Cambridge On-Line News: contributor@b...
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