The Christian's New Year Prayer

The Christian's New Year Prayer
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
1910

Thou Christ of mine, Thy gracious ear low bending
Through these glad New Year days,
To catch the countless prayers to heaven ascending—
For e’en hard hearts do raise
Some secret wish for fame, or gold, or power,
Or freedom from all care—
Dear, patient Christ, who listeneth hour on hour,
Hear now a Christian’s prayer.
Let this young year that, silent, walks beside me,
Be as a means of grace
To lead me up, no matter what betide me,
Nearer the Master’s face.
If it need be that ere I reach the Fountain
Where living waters play,
My feet should bleed from sharp stones on the mountain,
Then cast them in my way.

If my vain soul needs blows and bitter losses
To shape it for Thy crown,
Then bruise it, burn it, burden it with crosses,
With sorrows bear it down.
Do what Thou wilt to mould me to Thy pleasure,
And if I should complain,
Heap full of anguish yet another measure
Until I smile at pain.
Send dangers—deaths! but tell me how to dare them;
Enfold me in Thy care.
Send trials, tears! but give me strength to bear them—
This is a Christian’s prayer.

Montenegro, September 2017

"Delilah"
- Bent Fabric, piano (1962)

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Thanksgiving 2017

Italy, September 2017

"Al Di La"

- Xavier Cugat
& His Orchestra (1962)

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Greece, September 2017

Medley:
"Once in Ancient Greece"
- Wings (2002)
~&~
"Never on Sunday"
- Makadopoulos & His Greek Serenaders (1960)

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Lourmarin et Roussillon de France, en septembre 2017

Mireille Mathieu (1973)

La paloma adieu
(Desage et Bruhn)

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Et Perducant Te In Civitatem Sanctam Jerusalem

Montreal Symphony & Choir (2009)

- Requiem, Op. 48
in paradisum
(Fauré)

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Yet Is Your Heart the Spring of All Love's Light

Love in October
John Drinkwater
1919

The fields, the clouds, the farms and farming gear,
The drifting kine, the scarlet apple trees ...
Not of the sun but separate are these,
And individual joys, and very dear;
Yet when the sun is folded, they are here
No more, the drifting skies: the argosies
Of wagoned apples: still societies
Of elms: red cattle on the stubbled year.

So are you not love’s whole estate. I owe
In many hearts more dues than I shall pay;
Yet is your heart the spring of all love’s light,
And should your love weary of me and go
With all its thriving beams out of my day,
These many loves would founder in that night.

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For Autumn Is Monarch Now

Summer Is Dead
John Reade, 1870

I.
Summer is dead. Shall we weep or laugh,
As we gaze on the dead queen’s epitaph
Which Autumn has written in letters of gold:
“She was bright and beautiful, blithe and young,
And through grove and meadow she gaily sung,
As with careless footsteps she danced along
To the grave, where she now lies cold?”

II.
Shall we weep that her beauty from earth has gone?
Shall we weep for the friends that with her have flown?
Shall we weep for those that with her have died?
For the man that has perished in manhood’s pride?
For the maiden that never can be a bride?
For the hearts that are left alone?

III.
Shall we laugh as we stand at earth’s palace-door,
With the faded crown that poor Summer wore,
And placing it on her sister’s brow,
Forget the face that once smiled beneath
That faded crown, and the flowery breath
That parted those lips now cold in death?
For Autumn is monarch now.

IV.
Summer is dead. Shall we laugh or weep?
Is she really dead or only asleep
With her sleeping garments on?
She only sleeps, and in meadow and grove
Again in gay dances her steps shall move;
But shall she come back with the friends we love?
God knows, and His will be done.

First Day of Autumn, 2017 - Northern Hemisphere

Lat: 37.7° N
@1023 Hours PDT
Current Conditions: 61°F/16°C, Sunny
Humidity: 57%
Dew Point 21°F/-6°C
Wind: 0.0 mph

Astronomy:

September  22, 2017        Rise:        Set:
Actual Time            6:53 AM PDT  7:02 PM PDT
Civil Twilight         6:27 AM PDT  7:28 PM PDT
Nautical Twilight      5:56 AM PDT  7:59 PM PDT
Astronomical Twilight  5:25 AM PDT  8:30 PM PDT
Moon (9/22)            9:15 AM PDT  8:46 PM PDT

Waxing Crescent, 7% of the moon is illuminated

Length of Visible Light 13h 01m
Length of Day 12h 09m
Tomorrow will be 2m 24s shorter

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In This Dream August Air

August
(excerpt)
W. Wilfred Campbell
1899

In this dream August air, whose ripened leaf,
Pausing before it puts death’s glories on,
Deepens its green, and the half-garnered sheaf
Gladdens the haze-filled sunlight, love hath gone
Beyond the material, trembling like a star,
To those sure heights where all thought’s glories are.

And Thought, that is the greatness of this earth,
And man’s most inmost being, soars and soars,
Beyond the eye’s horizon’s outmost girth,
Garners all beauty, on all mystery pores:
Like some ethereal fountain in its flow,
Finds heavens where the senses may not go.


Living Jazz (1967)
- "Summer Samba"
(Valle)

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O Tenderly the Haughty Day

July

"O tenderly the haughty day
Fills his blue urn with fire;
One morn is in the mighty heaven,
And one in our desire."
—Emerson

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21 July 2017
On This Summer Day

Denis Solee, tenor sax (2005)
"Summer Wind" 4:51
(Henry Mayer)

~*~

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21 July 2017
On This Summer Day

Stephen Hough, classical piano (1999)
"Weep You No More" 1:53
(Roger Quilter)



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Dorothy Fields Birthday Anniversary

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15 July 2017
A birthday anniversary

Dorothy Fields
Oscar winning American lyricist
(15 July 1905 - 28 March 1974)

Janet Seidel, vocal jazz (2009)
"The Way You Look Tonight" 5:21
(Kern and Fields)

~*~

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15 July 2017
A birthday anniversary

Dorothy Fields
Oscar winning American lyricist
(15 July 1905 - 28 March 1974)

Cheryl Bentyne, vocal jazz (2005)
"I Won't Dance" 3:56
(Kern and Fields)


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A Travel Journey Entry, 14 June 2017

Day 07.3 - Cherokee
14 June 2017

We are blessed over the last dozen years with many a summer travel mainly to different regions of North America. Much of our travels were curtailed by time and subsequent venues. Invariably in the course of every vacation, we were overwhelmed by the four Ws (who, what, when, and why) at the places visited. Nevertheless, in our mostly "see America first" journeys, we've learned and gleaned from the tapestry of our country's makeup. Scenery and landscape were always present in places we visited, though in varying proportions.

The pastoral beauty of the hazy Appalachian hills, interlaced with waterfalls and rivers, and further accented by congregations of fauna and flora. It is a region of unsurpassed beauty. And yet, all were merely scenic props. They awaited man's intrusion or discovery to give the region permanence and purpose; to give it a fuller and magnified landscape later preserved for posterity now known as the Blue Ridges and Smoky Mountains.

The Cumberland Gap and its environs were once serene and undisturbed wilderness, saved as a trace for the woodland buffaloes. Since it became a designated path blazed by Daniel Boone, as noted by Turner on the 12 June journal entry of "Cumberland Gap", "...the procession of civilization marching single file...the Indian...the pioneer farmer - and the frontier has passed by." Man has left a historic imprint on the Gap since the 1750s. Today, it still serves as a transit point westward. A century later at a place called Gettysburg, a stretch of farmland now preserved as a "hollow" and "consecrated" ground. As a timeless memorial imprinted on this field of blood, President Lincoln dedication this parcel of land to all the "brave men, living and dead." The scenery indigenous to both landmarks had served to establish, fortify, settle, and stir one's imagination to the historic importance, respectively, of these two landscape examples.

Cheorkee, NC, is a small foothill town at the southern edge of the Great Smoky Mountain NP. Located within a designated federal trust, the town also serves as the headquarter of the tribal community. When we arrived at Cherokee this morning, a rather dark chapter of our republic's history peeled back and opened to us. Surely, in the palimpsest of our nation's history, the Cherokee landscape had been paved with tears, toils, tragedies, as well as triumphs.

Ready for Summer Vacation

Leaving for the Great Smoky Mountain states on Thursday, 8 June. I should be back on 18 June.

"My heart thrills like the wilding sap to flowers,
And leaps as a swoln brook in summer rain
Past meadows green to the great sea untold.
O month divine, all fresh with falling showers,
Waft, waft from open heaven thy balm for pain,
Life and sweet Earth are young, God grows not old!"

Theodore H. Rand, 1897

Barlow and Rice

Tab 1 Feature:

6 June 2017
A birthday anniversary

Emile-Claire Barlow
Canadian jazz singer
Born: 6 June 1976

Emilie-Claire Barlow, vocal (2007)
"Les Yeux Ouverts" 4:44
(W. Schwandt et al.)

~*~

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8 June 2017
A birthday anniversary

Tony Rice
American acoustic guitarist
Blugrass and Country
Born: 8 June 1951

Tony Rice, vocal and guitar (1996)
"Fine as Fine Can Be"
(G. Lightfoot)



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In These Sweet June Days

Love and June
Percy Ainsworth
1910

There lives a glory in these sweet June days
Such as I found not in the years gone by,
A kindlier meaning in the unclouded sky,
A tenderer whisper in the woodland ways;
And I have understanding of the lays,
The birds are singing, forasmuch as I
Have learned how love avails to satisfy
A man’s whole heart, and fills his lips with praise.
The morning air is laden with the scent
Of roses; and within my garden grows
A rosebud that shall some day be a rose,
Whose bloom and perfume never shall be spent—
The flower of love: and he who hath it knows
The endless summer of complete content.

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Hail, Dearest Few!

Memorial Day
Louise Imogen Guiney
1909

O day of roses and regret,
Kissing the old graves of our own!
Not to the slain love's lovely debt
Alone.

But jealous hearts that live and ache,
Remember; and while drums are mute,
Beneath your banners' bright outbreak,
Salute:

And say for us to lessening ranks
That keep the memory and the pride,
On whose thinned hair our tears and thanks
Abide,

Who from their saved Republic pass,
Glad with the Prince of Peace to dwell:
Hail, dearest few! and soon, alas,
Farewell.

A Passion for Alfa Romeo Giulia Starts with Callas

Your passion for an Alfa Romeo Giulia
starts by knowing Callas singing
Bellini's Casta Diva
in the car ad.

Tab 1 Feature:

21 May 2017

Maria Callas, soprano (1961)
"Casta Diva"
(Bellini, Opera "Norma", Act I)

~*~

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21 May 2017
You might also like Gallway's rendition of this Bellini piece.

James Gallway, flute (2004)
"Casta Diva"
(Bellini, Opera "Norma", Act I)



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Drawn After You, You Pattern of All Those

Votre âme est un paysage choisi

Arthur Fiedler, conducting
The Boston Pops Orchestra (1958)
- Moonglow and the Theme from 'Picnic'
(Gerorge Duning)

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Clair de la Lune
Paul Verlaine (1869)

Votre âme est un paysage choisi
Que vont charmant masques et bergamasques
Jouant du luth et dansant et quasi
Tristes sous leurs déguisements fantasques

Tout en chantant sur le mode mineur
L'amour vainqueur et la vie opportune,
Ils n'ont pas l'air de croire à leur bonheur
Et leur chanson se mêle au clair de lune,

Au calme clair de lune triste et beau,
Qui fait rêver les oiseaux dans les arbres
Et sangloter d'extase les jets d'eau,
Les grands jets d'eau sveltes parmi les marbres.

Bolzoni & Paramor Birthdays

Tab 1 Feature:

15 May 2017
A Birthday Anniversary

Giovanni Bolzoni
Italian late classical era composer and violinist
(15 May 1841 - 21 February 1919)

Arthur Fiedler, conducting

The Boston Pops Orchestra (1958)
"Minuet for Strings and Orchestra" 3'44"
(Bolzoni)

~*~

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15 May 2017
A Birthday Anniversary

Norrie Paramor
British musician, conductor, and etc.
(15 May 1914 - 9 September 1979)

Norrie Paramor, conducting

The Midland Radio Orchestra (1979)
"Petite Fleur" 3'18"
(Bechet)


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And She My Loadstar While I Go and Come

Sonnets Are Full of Love, and This My Tome
by Christina Rossetti

Sonnets are full of love, and this my tome
Has many sonnets: so here now shall be
One sonnet more, a love sonnet, from me
To her whose heart is my heart’s quiet home,
To my first Love, my Mother, on whose knee
I learnt love-lore that is not troublesome;
Whose service is my special dignity,
And she my loadstar while I go and come
And so because you love me, and because
I love you, Mother, I have woven a wreath
Of rhymes wherewith to crown your honored name:
In you not fourscore years can dim the flame
Of love, whose blessed glow transcends the laws
Of time and change and mortal life and death.

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A Centennial Birthday of Note

Herman Clebanoff
American-born concertmaster,
arranger, and conductor
(2 May 1917 - 13 January 2004)
The Clebanoff Strings (1978)
- "You Belong to My Heart"
(Solamente una vez)
(Lara)

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Enjoy the Spring of Love and Youth

It Is Not Always May

The sun is bright,—the air is clear,
The darting swallows soar and sing,
And from the stately elms I hear
The bluebird prophesying spring.

So blue yon winding river flows,
It seems an outlet from the sky,
Where waiting till the west-wind blows,
The freighted clouds at anchor lie.

All things are new,—the buds, the leaves,
That gild the elm-tree’s nodding crest,
And even the nest beneath the eaves;—
There are no birds in last year’s nest!

All things rejoice in youth and love,
The fulness of their first delight!
And learn from the soft heavens above
The melting tenderness of night.

Maiden, that read’st this simple rhyme,
Enjoy thy youth, it will not stay;
Enjoy the fragrance of thy prime,
For O, it is not always May!

Enjoy the spring of Love and Youth,
To some good angel leave the rest;
For Time will teach thee soon the truth,
There are no birds in last year’s nest.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I'd Have Been the Shadow of Your Shadow

Rod McKuen
Singer, musician, and poet
(29 April 1933 - 29 January 2015)
The Norman Luboff Choir
& the Melachrino Strings (1967)

- If You Go Away (Ne me quitte pas)
(Brel, tr. McKuen)

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He Is Risen, Indeed

Dale Warland's Birthday Anniversary

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14 April 2017
A Birthday Anniversary

Dale Warland
American choral composer and conductor (ret)
Born: 14 April 1932

Dale Warland, conducting
The Dale Warland Singers (2005)
"Simple Gifts" 2'17"
(Brackett, arr. Warland)

~*~

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14 April 2017
A Birthday Anniversary

Dale Warland
American choral composer and conductor (ret)
Born: 14 April 1932

Dale Warland, conducting
The Dale Warland Singers (1996)
"Oh, Shenandoah" 3'30"
(Traditional, arr. Houkom)



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And Loss and Sorrow, Breathe a Breath

Righteous and Having Salvation Is He

Palm Sunday 2017

Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion!
     Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem!
Behold, your king is coming to you;
     righteous and having salvation is he,
humble and mounted on a donkey,
     on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

Zechariah 9:9 ESV

From the Vintage of Gold and of Light

Lavender Trumpet Vine & Orange Calandiva
The earth is the cup of the sun,
That he filleth at morning with wine,
With the warm, strong wine of his might
From the vintage of gold and of light,
Fills it, and makes it divine. - Archibald Lampman

Gibson and Camilo Birthdays

Tab 1 Feature:

3 April 2017
A Birthday Anniversary

Don Gibson
American Country Music writer
(3 April 1928 - 11 November 2003)

Denis Champoux, guitar (1990)
"I Can’t Stop Loving You" 2'52"
(Gibson)

~*~

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4 April 2017
A Birthday Anniversary

Michel Camilo
Jazz pianist
Born: 4 April 1954

Michel Camilo, piano, et al. (2000)
"Spain - Intro" 3'21"
(Rodrigo)


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One Breath Outdoors Takes All My Care Away

April Charms

William H. Davies, 1920

When April scatters coins of primrose gold
Among the copper leaves in thickets old,
And singing skylarks from the meadows rise,
To twinkle like black stars in sunny skies;

When I can hear the small woodpecker ring
Time on a tree for all the birds that sing;
And hear the pleasant cuckoo, loud and long—
The simple bird that thinks two notes a song;

When I can hear the woodland brook, that could
Not drown a babe, with all his threatening mood:
Upon whose banks the violets make their home,
And let a few small strawberry blossoms come;

When I go forth on such a pleasant day,
One breath outdoors takes all my care away;
It goes like heavy smoke, when flames take hold
Of wood that’s green and fill a grate with gold.

He Is Abel to Spring It For Sure

Richard Abel
Canadian pianist
Born: 1 April 1955
Richard Abel, piano (2007)

- O Mio Babbino Caro
(Puccini)

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Heath and Abel Birthdays

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30 March 2017
A Birthday Anniversary

Ted Heath
English trombonist
and Big Band leader
(30 March 1902 - 18 November 1969)

Ted Heath and His Orchestra (1966)
"The Girl from Ipanema" 2'47"
(Jobim)

~*~

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1 April 2017
A Birthday Anniversary

Richard Abel
Canadian pianist
Born: 1 April 1955

Richard Abel, piano, et al. (2007)
"O Mio Babbino Caro" 3'51"
(Puccini)


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The One Doth Shadow of Your Beauty Show

Patio Collage
"Speak of the spring, and foison of the year,
The one doth shadow of your beauty show,
The other as your bounty doth appear."
- Shakespeare

(traduction: "parle-t-on printemps, ou du temps où l'année foisonne,
l'un paraît l'ombre de votre beauté,
l'autre semble parée des dons de votre libéralité.")

My Food, My Fortune, and My Sweet Hope's Aim

Mine eye's clear eye, my dear heart's dearer heart,
My food, my fortune, and my sweet hope's aim,
My sole earth's heaven, and my heaven's claim" - Shakespeare

At a Napa Valley Luncheon, Saturday, 25 March 2017

Place: The Redd Restaurant, Yountville, CA

Entree: Carmelized diver scallops, caulifower purée,
almonds, and balsamic reduction

Dessert:Pineapple Upside-down Cake and Sherbet

Frankie Carle Birthday Anniversary

Frankie Carle
American pop-music pianist
and orchestra leader
(25 March 1903 - 7 March 2001)

Franki Carle, piano, and orchestra (1962)
"Aloha Paradise"
(C. Fox)

~*~

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25 March 2017
A Birthday Anniversary

Frankie Carle
American pop-music pianist
and orchestra leader
(25 March 1903 - 7 March 2001)

Franki Carle, piano, and orchestra (1962)
"Paradise Isle"
(N. Tuiteleleapaga)


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Spring Is Bach!

J.S. Bach
A Classical music immortal
(21 March 1685 - 28 July 1750)
Living Jazz (1966)

- A Lover's Concerto
(Linzer and Randell
after J.S. Bach, Minuet in G major)

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First Day of Spring, 2017 - Northern Hemisphere

Lat: 37.7° N
@2008 Hours PDT
Current Conditions: 60°F/15.5°C, Rain
Humidity: 57%
Dew Point 43°F
Wind: 0.0 mph

Astronomy:

March  20, 2017        Rise:        Set:
Actual Time            7:06 AM PDT  7:16 PM PDT
Civil Twilight         6:40 AM PDT  7:42 PM PDT
Nautical Twilight      6:10 AM PDT  8:13 PM PDT
Astronomical Twilight  5:39 AM PDT  8:44 PM PDT
Moon (3/20)            1:58 AM PDT 12:15 PM PDT

Last Quarter, 46% of the moon is illuminated

Length of Visible Light 13h 01m
Length of Day 12h 09m
Tomorrow will be 2m 26s longer

I Still Would Choose the Isle of Innisfree

The Isle of Innisfree
Film: The Quiet Man (1952)

Music: Dick Farrelly
Arr: Victor Young

Sung by Movie Cast: Maureen O'Hara

I've met some folks who say that I'm a dreamer
And I've no doubt there's truth in what they say
But sure a body's bound to be a dreamer
When all the things he loves are far away

And precious things are dreams unto an exile
They take him o'er the land across the sea
Especially when it happens he's an exile
From that dear lovely Isle of Innisfree

And when the moonlight peeps across the rooftops
Of this great city, wondrous though it be
I scarcely feel its wonder or its laughter
I'm once again back home in Innisfree

I wander o'er green hills through dreamy valleys
And find a peace no other land could know
I hear the birds make music fit for angels
And watch the rivers laughing as they flow

But dreams don't last
Though dreams are not forgotten
And soon I'm back to stern reality
But though they pave the foot-ways here with gold dust
I still would choose the Isle of Innisfree



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Thanks for the Memory, of Faults That You Forgave

Les Brown, musician
and Band Leader
(14 Mar 1912 - 4 Jan 2001)
Les Brown and His Band (1976)

- Thanks for the Memory
(Rainger & Robin)

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Birthday Anniversary of Mr. Mood Music

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12 March 2017
A Birthday Anniversary

Paul Weston
pianist, composer, conductor, and etc.
(12 March 1912 - 20 September 1996)

Paul Weston and His Orchestra (1959)
"Where or When"
(R. Rodgers)

~*~

Tab 2 Feature:
12 March 2017
A Birthday Anniversary

Paul Weston
pianist, composer, conductor, and etc.
(12 March 1912 - 20 September 1996)

Paul Weston and His Orchestra (1954)
"Long Ago and Far Away"
(J. Kern)

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Kanawa and Logan Birthdays

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6 March 2017
A Birthday Anniversary

Dame Kiri Te Kanawa
operatic soprano
Born: 6 March 1944

Kiri Te Kanawa, soprano (1994)
"Du Bist Wie Eine Blume"
(R. Schumann)

~*~

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6 March 2017
A Birthday Anniversary

Ella Logan
Scottish actress and singer
(6 March 1913 - 1 May 1969)

Ella Logan, vocal (1994)
"How Are Things in Glocca Morra?"
(Harburg and Lane)


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Born to Be Weill

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2 March 2017
A Birthday Anniversary

Kurt Weill
German-born stage music composer
(2 March 1900 - 3 April 1950)

Polly Ferman, piano (2000)
"Youkali" (Tango)
(Weill)

~*~

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Kurt Weill
German-born stage music composer
(2 March 1900 - 3 April 1950)

Bernard Hermann, conducting
The London Festival Recording Ensemble (1971)
"Mack the Knife" (Jazz)
(Weill)


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One Fine Day It Is, Little Sheba

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23 February 2017
A Birthday Anniversary

George Frideric Handel
no need to say more who he was
(23 February 1685 - 14 April 1759)

Adrian Shepherd, conducting
The Cantilena Chamber Orchestra (2003)
"Arrival of the Queen of Sheba"
(Handel)

~*~

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24 February 2017
A Birthday Anniversary

Renata Scotto
Italian operatic soprano and director
Born: 24 February 1934

Renata Scotto, soprano (1988)
"Un bel di"
(Puccini)


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Andrés Segovia Birthday Anniversary

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21 February 2017
A Birthday Anniversary

Andrés Segovia
Spanish classical guitar virtuoso
(21 February 1893 - 2 June 1987)

Andrés Segovia, classical guitar
(1989 compilation)

"Españoletta" 1'26"
(Sanz)

~*~

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21 February 2017
A Birthday Anniversary

Andrés Segovia
Spanish classical guitar virtuoso
(21 February 1893 - 2 June 1987)

Andrés Segovia, classical guitar
(1989 compilation)

"Intermezzo" 1'23"
(de Valera)


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Faster Than Spring-time Show'rs Comes Thought on Thought

"...paint the meadows with delight..."
"...the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees..."
   - Shakespeare

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16 February 2017
A Birthday Anniversary

Alexander Brailowsky
Ukrainian classical pianist
noted(pun) for his Chopin interpretations
(16 February 1896 - 25 April 1976)

Alexander Brailowsky, piano (1952)
"Waltz No. 12 in F Minor" 2'57"
(Chopin)

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"A vrai dire, je ne t'aime pas avec mes yeux,
car ils remarquent en toi une foule d'erreurs;
mais c'est mon coeur qui aime ce qu'ils méprisent,
et qui se laisse charmer en dépit d'eux."

   - Sonnet 141 un extrait de Shakespeare
(Ce n'est pas la citation exacte, je crois que je la paraphase assez fidèlement.)


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17 February 2017
A Birthday Anniversary

Tommy Edwards,
American singer and lyricist
(17 February - 22 October 1969)

Tommy Edwards (1958)
"It's All in the Game" 2'39"
(Sigman and Dawes)


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Pour elle, quoique Dieu l'ait fait douce et tendre

♥ 14 February 2017 ♥

Tony Sandler
French vocal (1992)

- Aranjuez
(Bontempelli and Rodrigo)

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Joan Morris' Birthday Anniversary

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10 February 2017
A Birthday Anniversary

Joan Morris, mezzo-soprano
A renown balladeer
of 19th and early 20th centuries
parlor and burlesques songs
Born: 10 February 1943

Joan Morris, messo-soprano
   with William Bolcom, piano

"After the Ball" 4'54"
(C. Harris, 1892)

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10 February 2017
A Birthday Anniversary

Joan Morris, mezzo-soprano
A renown balladeer
of 19th and early 20th centuries
parlor and burlesques songs
Born: 10 February 1943

Joan Morris, mezzo-soprano
   with William Bolcom, piano

"A Bird in a Gilded Cage" 3'57"
(H. von Tilzer, 1900)


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