Musical Moments 2
CPMF Musical Moments
As promised, here is the second of our Musical Moments.
CACTUS PEAR MUSICAL MOMENT, #2
CACTUS PEAR MUSICAL MOMENT, #2
On Saturday, July 20, 2019, at Trinity Baptist Church, violist Bruce Williams
and pianist Jeffrey Sykes
stilled the hearts of the audience when they performed Rebecca Clarke's 1944 "I'll Bid My Heart Be Still."
Take a bow, guys!
As Jeffrey Sykes, also our festival's program annotator for many a season, wrote last summer…
Clarke’s musical style is expansive and powerful, combining the coloration of Debussy, the passion of Bloch, and Franck’s sense of structure and use of leitmotivs. And yet her use of elements of English folksong and modality gives her music an approachable, fresh, unmistakably English quality.… Clarke, a central figure in [the English Musical] Renaissance, arranged a number of folksongs for various combinations of voices and instruments. “I’ll bid my heart be still” is a Scottish border melody she arranged in 1944 for viola and piano. Clarke married Scottish pianist James Friskin in the summer of 1944, and this beautiful arrangement no doubt honors their personal and musical relationship.
May this beautiful performance help remind us all of the blessings of our relationships, far and wide.
Clarke’s musical style is expansive and powerful, combining the coloration of Debussy, the passion of Bloch, and Franck’s sense of structure and use of leitmotivs. And yet her use of elements of English folksong and modality gives her music an approachable, fresh, unmistakably English quality.… Clarke, a central figure in [the English Musical] Renaissance, arranged a number of folksongs for various combinations of voices and instruments. “I’ll bid my heart be still” is a Scottish border melody she arranged in 1944 for viola and piano. Clarke married Scottish pianist James Friskin in the summer of 1944, and this beautiful arrangement no doubt honors their personal and musical relationship.
May this beautiful performance help remind us all of the blessings of our relationships, far and wide.
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