Oh wow, love this song a lot. thanks for thinking of it. van morrison is better than any stupid opera in-my-humble- yet-always-completely-right-opinion (IMHYACRO)
Jenny -----Original Message----- From: Steve Galehouse <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sun, Nov 15, 2009 11:00 pm Subject: Re: [ENTS] Forests/Trees in opera (don't delete! not that bad!) Jenny- Here are the lyrics of an old Van Morrison song: "In the Forest"---not opera, but opera, but still a nice piece. "By the sacred grove, where the waters flow We will come and go, in the forest In the summer rain, we will meet again We will learn the code of the ancient ones In the forest By the waterfall, I will hold you in my arms We will meet again by the leafy glade In the shade of the forest With your long robes on, we will surely roam By the ancient roads, I will take you home To the forest In the forest, in the forest In the forest, in the forest With your long robes on, we will surely roam By the ancient roads, I will take you home again To the forest Satisfy the soul baby Birds sing all day long of the mother lode We can let it roll, in the forest With your long robes on I know where you�re coming from By the big oak tree you�ve gotta come and go with me In the forest, in the forest In the forest, in the forest By the waterfall I will hold you in my arms, and we will meet again By the leafy shade, in the, in the forest Satisfy the soul Birds sing all day long of the mother lode We can surely let it roll, in the forest With your long robes on I know where you�re coming from We will surely roam, down by the ancient roads" Steve (audio file sent to your e-mail) On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 2:15 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: Yup, just what you all were waiting for... This is part of an email I sent to Kouta along with a picture: Kouta, Here's the only production pic I could find that is slightly woods related. In Handel's Partenope, Rosmira is enraged by boyfriend's infidelity and goes to the woods and kills that deer! Having that beast in the aria was a mixed blessing; everyone loved it and it looked cool, but I had to jump on it and climb up which made singing really hard...This was a great production from New York City Opera/Glimmerglass Opera. Handel wrote some good tree and woods tunes. Ombra mai fu (Persian King Xerxes sings love song to tree - I wonder what kind?),http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9Jh7DF1nxY and Care Selve come to mind. Hey, Hansel und Gretel must be the ultimate Forest opera, though, right! The sound isn't good but this is so cute: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9m7bGzxLzuo (fyi, other fascinated and rapt ENTS: the characters are both played by women. I would be Hansel - the lower voice) Jeanne d'Arc in Tchaikivsky's Maid of Orleans sings a tremendous aria "Adieu Foret" (link to Jessye Norman performance; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5hSc78uZyw) And Sondheim's Into the Woods, while not operatic, deserves mention This is fun! Any other tree/forest musical references come to mind? Jenny -- Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] -- Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] -- Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected]
