Maurice Ravel – Tombeau de Couperin (Prélude for oboe and piano)
(I wish I could remember how I found this video … surely it was someone on Facebook? Maybe Robin Tropper? I’m just not sure. But whoever it was … this is a gem!)
From the YouTube page:
Christian Schmitt – Alessandra Gentile
Contact: alessandragentile@yahoo.it
Special Thanks:
http://www.auditoriumperugia.it/audit…
http://www.pitchaudio.it/
Ass. Cult. blugen
http://www.pianoforti.org/
Caroline Shaw’s “So Quietly” (I’m unable to locate the text, so perhaps it’s Shaw’s own?)
Again, by the very talented Brooklyn Youth Chorus. I don’t see a conductor listed, but I’m thinking this might be Dianne Berkun Menaker, just from glancing at their site.
This is the very talented and adventurous Brooklyn Youth Chorus singing Nico Myhly’s “Advice to a Young Woman”. I have yet to find the full text available, but I know it’s from The lady’s new-years gift, or, Advice to a daughter by George Saville, Marquie of Halifax (1633-1695).
Below I include any of the text I located via his writing that I can hear or see on the video. I copied it completely, although Muhly may have deleted a few words here and there.
…it must engage you to have a perpetual watch upon your eyes, and to remember that one careless glance giveth more advantage than a hundred words not enough considered; the language of the eyes being very much the most significant, and the most observed.
It is better for a woman never to dance becasue she hat no skill in it, than to do it often, because she doth it well.
