Solveig's Song has been on my Treasure Island since childhood and I was so lucky to have it sung by my Mum.
Here's Lucia Popp, always, like you, Mum.
"Perchance both winter and spring will pass
and next summer, and the entire year: —
but at last you will come, that I know for sure;
and I'll still be waiting, for I once promised I would."
Beautiful!
ReplyDeleteYou are lucky to have had a mother who sang such a song!
Dear Eyesometric,these lines reached you rapidly. Thank you! yes, my parents trained as singers. But only my father went on stage and made a living (tried for fifteen years or so)out of it. I have all the scores my Mother studied and sang (at home). Some of her melodies and arias are on my mind for ever. She was a coloratura and now I think she was a much better singer than my Dad, but she did not have the chance to study as long as he did. From time to time, there are echos of these days through music in my life. I did not know that during the last part of my life, having a lot of free time, I would rediscover this passion for voices which had been hiding, all the years I was working. My parents separated, but here on this blog I tend to reunite them, revisiting my childhood, mainly through music. I listened to long hours of singing when I was a kid. So... it was bound to happen!
ReplyDeleteToday, it is my Mum's revival.. often is.
You have a wonderful way with words, Yvette. You are twice blessed through having a musical childhood. There was no music for me as a child until I went to secondary school and someone loaned me a recorder and I sat in the kitchen and taught myself - and look where I ended up!! I guess some things are meant to be.
ReplyDeleteYou sound wistful when remembering your mother but you are doing the remembering in a lovely way.
Great choice, Yvette. :o) It's been a while since I listened to Solveig's Song (or the rest of the Peer Gynt Suite, for that matter), so it is a distinct pleasure to rediscover it today as intoned by the immortal Lucia Popp.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing your personal stories with us, too. I don't know what sort of music will come to my mind if I think of my parents and my childhood... Ours is not a particularly musical family.
Hope autumn is going well your way! :oD
Hi Eyes!