Quarantine Mini 26 - RVW, AEH & EAS!
Added 2020-04-16 01:10:20 +0000 UTCSpeaks for itself.
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Just catching up - there was a ton of RVW in my college choir's repertiore, and the songs were lovely to sing.
Heather Crocetto
2020-04-23 19:35:43 +0000 UTCI'm with you on the previous classical music posts, but the vocal one....I just can't bear that stuff. To each their own.
JoshG
2020-04-16 19:18:33 +0000 UTCThe Bach Choir of Pittsburgh put Shakespeare and Langston Hughes to music, very cool. I wish I could find a recording of the one scene from Macbeth.
Emily Brown
2020-04-16 17:47:45 +0000 UTCWe'll have to talk sometime; I've spent the last three years reading all I can on WWI, though specifically the causes, haven't even got to the, you know, WAR yet!
372 Pages We'll Never Get Back
2020-04-16 15:42:06 +0000 UTCI'm sold! Those were beautiful.
Gina Dalfonzo
2020-04-16 13:09:41 +0000 UTCThanks so much for this--I was lucky enough to sing RVW's Dona Nobis Pacem years back, and it was wonderful. And just to add, RVW enlisted in WWI, first as a medical orderly, carrying stretchers and driving ambulances, and then serving in an artillery squad (apparently he suffered a good deal of hearing loss as a result). I find it so profound that he could compose something so haunting and gentle after seeing what he saw (he wrote this in 1923). I wrote my PhD Thesis on WWI, so I honestly can't help talking about it...sorry!
Bridget K
2020-04-16 04:16:29 +0000 UTCSounded to me like it was Anthony Rolfe Johnson.
Christopher Dazey
2020-04-16 03:00:04 +0000 UTCAh yes, these are gorgeous. I accompanied these pieces on piano for vocalists back in my college teaching days. Thanks for sharing these!
John G
2020-04-16 02:53:03 +0000 UTCI am enjoying these culture lessons.
Mike Truman
2020-04-16 02:28:08 +0000 UTCThat occasionally happens to me with the Patreon app... it will stop notifying me when there are new posts... Deleting and reinstalling the app seems to fix it for a while but then it will happen again... very annoying!
Taylor Conner
2020-04-16 02:07:58 +0000 UTCIs it just me or is nobody else getting an update to the Patreoj feed past April 1?
Anonymous Person
2020-04-16 01:40:56 +0000 UTCI've never heard this genre but it's very reminiscent of Elizabethan era troubadours like John Dowland.
Moviegique
2020-04-16 01:28:12 +0000 UTCMike, I may have just missed it, but who was the vocalist on the recordings you played? They were lovely. I’m ashamed to admit, although I have some musical training (a lot of it choral), I’d never heard these pieces before.
Doodle
2020-04-16 01:20:45 +0000 UTC
