Thanks very much Laura for digging these up. I was at a total loss. The
songs I liked were secular and the sacred ones I thought of weren't really
appropriate. This is extremely helpful!
Cheers from Vancouver Island,
Vivian
-----Original Message-----
From: Laura Sharp [mailto:lasharp@n...]
Sent: Saturday, May 06, 2000 1:17 PM
To: vocalist-temporary@egroups.com
Subject: RE: [vocalist-temporary] Fwd: Mother's Day Music
Vivian asked about Mother's Day pieces and I am taking the liberty of
reposting some excellent suggestions from a little while ago, which I
squirrelled away for later use. The original posters were Chris Thomas and
Karen Mercedes.
Best wishes,
Laura Sharp
FROM CHRIS:
"Bernstein's "Greeting" from ARIAS AND BARCAROLLES. It was written by the
composer upon the birth of his first child.
"When a boy is born, the world is born again, and takes its first breath
with
him;
When a girl is born, the world stops turning 'round; and keeps a moment's
hushed wonder;
Every time a child is born, for the space of that brief instant ... the
world
is pure."
I've used it in cards to new mommies..."
FROM KAREN:
"One that I think would be just perfect is Charles Ives's "The Light that
is Felt" - it has both the "mother" and "sacred" sentiments in it:
A tender child of summers three,
at night, while seeking her little bed,
Paused on the dark stair timidly,
Oh, mother take my hand, said she,
And then the dark will be light...
We older children grope our way
from dark behind to dark before;
And only when our hands we lay
in Thine, O God! the night is day,
and there is darkness never more.
Some other possibilities:
Charles Villiers Stanford: The Chapel on the Hill (from A FIRE OF TURF)
Edvard Grieg or Charles Ives: The Dear old Mother (Du alte Mutter)
Hugo Wolf: Deine Mutter, suesses Kind; Benedeit die sel'ger Mutter (from
Italinisches Liederbuch)
Fernando Obradors: Con amores, la mi madre
Ottorino Respighi: Io sono la Madre (Quattro liriche: Antica poesia
popolare armena, no. 3. - yes, it's about Mary, but it's not
your typical Marian text).
Manuel de Falla: Preludios"
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