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| Description | | Vocalist, computer and various collaborators. |
| Similar Artists | | Freres Jacques, Comedy Harmonists, A Cappella, Kings Singers... well one can aspire :-) |
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| Information for song "April" | | | | |  | A gentle ditty for guitar and alto about this pleasant month is my setting of a poem by S N Solomons based on a poem by Remi Belleau |  Play
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| | Song Story | Performed by the composer in 1989
Score (pdf format) available free of charge here
An alternative version as a video can now be seen and heard here
| | Song Lyrics | APRIL
April, the grace and smile
That all beguile,
The tang and the sweet breath:
Perfume of Gods on high,
Who from the sky
Relish the scent of earth.
April, courteous and gentil
Who from exile
Summons the wanderers,
The forked swifts that skim
Their way and seem
Of Spring the messengers.
May-flower and eglantine,
And verdant thyme,
Lilies and roses red
At this so beauteous tide,
Growing in pride
With lovely raiment spread.
©S N Solomons
after Remi Belleau
AVRIL
Avril, la grace, et le ris
De Cypris,
Le flair et la douce haleine:
Avril, le parfum des Dieux,
Qui des cieux
Sentent l`odeur de la plaine.
C`est toy courtois et gentil,
Qui d`exil
Retires ces passageres,
Ces arondelles qui vont,
Et qui sont
Du printemps les messageres.
L`aubespine et l`aiglantin,
Et le thym,
L`oeillet, le lis et les roses
En ceste belle saison,
A foison,
Monstrent leurs robes escloses.
Remi Belleau 1528-1577
| | Song Statistics | | Song Serial Number: | | 351 | | Date of first upload: | | Saturday April 1st, 2006 | | Date of last update: | | Saturday April 1st, 2006 | | Total downloads and listens: | | **** | | Total amount sold: | | $**** |
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