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From:  Karen Mercedes <dalila@R...>
Date:  Mon Jun 10, 2002  4:44 pm
Subject:  Re: [vocalist] songs to dedicate to father

First choice would, of course, be your father's favourite song - if he had
one (and you know what it was).


OTHER GOOD CHOICES (IMO):

Paul Burkhard: O mein Papa - the #1 classic "father" tribute song

Schubert: Bei dem Grabe meines Vaters (At the grave of my father), D.496
(also set by Zumsteeg, #5 in Vol. 5 of his Kleine Balladen und Lieder) - a
lovely tribute to a dead father (not good for non-Christian fathers due to
the Jesus Christ reference in the text)

Phil Coulter: The Old Man (an Irish folk-song paying tribute to a dead
father)

Eric Clapton: My Father's Eyes



A few others:

Janacek: Muj drahy taticku (My dear papa) - #21 of his Zapisnik
zmizeleho

Delius: Herbst - #4 of his Five Danish Songs

Cole Porter: My heart belongs to Daddy :)



And some you DON'T want to sing on Father's Day:

Harry Nilsson: Daddy's Song (whether you read this as a song about a
father abandoning the family, or about a father dying, it's really too sad
for a holiday!)

Henze: The Worker - #17 of his Stimmen (a factory working father dying of
work-related disease)

Stravinsky: In Memoriam Dylan Thomas (setting of Thomas' "Do not go gentle
into that good night" - written by Thomas to his dying father).

Rorem (also David Diamond): My Papa's Waltz (reminiscences about an
abusive father)

Robert Jordahl: My Daddy (Ogden Nash's ostensible "nursery rhyme" [yeah,
right] speculating his children's thoughts on having him as a father.)

Harry Chapin: Cat's in the Cradle



Karen Mercedes
http://www.radix.net/~dalila/index.html
______________________________________
I will sing with the spirit, and I
will sing with the understanding also.
1 Corinthians 14:15






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19363 Re: songs to dedicate to fatherJohn Link   Mon  6/10/2002  
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20332 Re: changing voice teachersKaren Mercedes   Fri  9/27/2002  
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20334 Re: soprano with violinKaren Mercedes   Fri  9/27/2002  
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