Hear thy children ...
2012-07-06 Vatican Radio
(Vatican Radio) - English composer Sir Edward Elgar , says Monsigner Philip Whitmore, once wrote a Nursery suite dedicated to two young princesses, Elizabeth and Margaret, and their mother.
"Elgar jotted down a few notes about each movement in the suite."The first one", he said, "should call up memories of happy and peaceful awakenings: the music flows in a serene way ; a fragment of a hymn tune is introduced, a hymn written for little children when the composer was a youth."
A programme produced by Veronica Scarisbrick.
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(Vatican Radio) - English composer Sir Edward Elgar , says Monsigner Philip Whitmore, once wrote a Nursery suite dedicated to two young princesses, Elizabeth and Margaret, and their mother."Elgar jotted down a few notes about each movement in the suite."The first one", he said, "should call up memories of happy and peaceful awakenings: the music flows in a serene way ; a fragment of a hymn tune is introduced, a hymn written for little children when the composer was a youth."
A programme produced by Veronica Scarisbrick.
Listen :
