“Is My Team Ploughing”, a haunting poem by Alfred Edward Housman was set to music by Ralph Vaughan Williams, the version I did under the overpass. Is My Team Ploughing is the third song in the cycle “On Wenlock Edge” created by Vaughan Williams and is my favorite version of […]Read more »
Monthly Archives: May 2016
King of Pain, a song performed by Sting is one of those tunes that seems to just have some staying power, at least for me. King of Pain, man, I’ve felt like that at times. While staying in the house where Ian Flemming wrote the James Bond books, Sting created […]Read more »
“Unforgettable”, a song performed by Nat King Cole so many years ago will, for me, always be associated with one person, my father. Unforgettable was a song introduced to me a long time ago, in passing, by my dad. He commented on how much he loved Nat King Cole’s voice, […]Read more »
The Trumpet Shall Sound, the triumphant Aria for Bass is my favorite song from my most favorite Oratorio, “The Messiah”. The Trumpet Shall Sound is not only triumphant because of the Bass, but because of the prophetic promise found in the Bible (1 Corinthians 15:51-52). Handel’s libretto (or text) was […]Read more »