martes, 20 de abril de 2010

Una celebración: Finley-Drake-Ives


Decía Titus que teníamos que celebrar algo, así que le tomo la palabra. A ver si he acertado.

Lo celebraremos con el barítono Gerald Finley, el pianista Julius Drake y una canción de Charles Ives: "Memories (A) and (B)", dos caras del recuerdo. Una grabación efectuada en el Wigmore Hall de Londres el 18 de octubre de 2007:




i. Very Pleasant

We're sitting in the opera house;
We're waiting for the curtain to arise
With wonders for our eyes;
We're feeling pretty gay,
And well we may,
"O, Jimmy, look!" I say,
"The band is tuning up
And soon will start to play."
We whistle and we hum,
Beat time with the drum.

We're sitting in the opera house;
We're waiting for the curtain to arise
With wonders for our eyes,
A feeling of expectancy,
A certain kind of ecstasy,
Expectancy and ecstasy... Sh's's's.

ii. Rather Sad

From the street a strain on my ear doth fall,
A tune as threadbare as that "old red shawl,"
It is tattered, it is torn,
It shows signs of being worn,
It's the tune my Uncle hummed from early morn,
'Twas a common little thing and kind 'a sweet,
But 'twas sad and seemed to slow up both his feet;
I can see him shuffling down
To the barn or to the town,
A humming.

2 comentarios:

  1. ¡Claro que has acertado! Ives, siempre interesante, en la voz de un gran liederista, el canadiense Gerald Finley, que aunque creo que nunca lo he mencionado es un cantante que me gusta mucho. Me ha encantado.

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  2. Un contraste delicioso.

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