The Lullaby for Lucy is on the recording of Scottish Music by Peter Maxwell Davies, and is based on each line beginning with the letters of Lucy Rendell. Also on that recording are "Seven Songs Home," words by Peter, I believe, which describe boys going home after school is out for the day. Those songs are, to me, a little known gem of choral writing, a truly great work in a small scale. They are for boys choir, and take some very precise singing. For example, when describing a shell duck suddenly flying from some reeds, he uses the words "...whirr of wings..." and on "whirr" he has the voices sing a very close minor second (two notes, just a little apart) so that the voices create a natural "beat" which is a rapid vibrating sound, like the whirr of wings. It is an amazing piece. And of course the opening work, Scottish Wedding (With Sunrise) is magical, filled with lilting tunes which seem like timeless old songs, but which Peter actually composed, and then, at the end, come the bagpipes playing with the orchestra. Goose bump time. Tuck On Sep 22, 2007, at 8:44 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > That's it Tuck. Lucy is also a GMB reference though. He wrote a > lovely > little poem "Lullaby for Lucy" to celebrate her birth which was > later set as a > choral piece by Peter Maxwell Davies. I believe it was recently > sung at her > wedding. > > Karen > > In a message dated 9/21/2007 4:14:12 P.M. Central Daylight Time, > [email protected] writes: > > Karen, > > I think I might get the reference, but I'd like to check to be sure. > Is not Lucy Rendall the first baby born in Rackwick in several > decades? And was not Stella Cartwright George Brown's one most > serious love? > > Tuck > On Sep 21, 2007, at 11:58 AM, [email protected] wrote: > >> >> Re: Pet's with Orkney Names >> >> My Orkney influenced cat names are "Lucy" and "Stella" -- some of >> you with >> get the reference. >> >> Karen >> >> >> >> >> ************************************** See what's new at http:// >> www.aol.com >> _______________________________________ >> Orcadia Group Photo Album >> http://tinyurl.com/28bx9x >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ORCADIA- >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes >> in the subject and the body of the message > > _______________________________________ > Orcadia Group Photo Album > http://tinyurl.com/28bx9x > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the > body of the message > > > > > > > > ************************************** See what's new at http:// > www.aol.com > _______________________________________ > Orcadia Group Photo Album > http://tinyurl.com/28bx9x > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ORCADIA- > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message

I wholeheartedly agree!! It is really special! Margaret On 23/09/2007, at 1:21 AM, Tuck wrote: > Also on that recording are "Seven Songs Home," words > by Peter, I believe, which describe boys going home after school is > out for the day. Those songs are, to me, a little known gem of choral > writing, a truly great work in a small scale.