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.