Ted Jacobs - A Child's Garden of Songs: The Poetry of Robert Louis Stevenson in Song
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Artist: Ted JacobsEdition: CD-R
CD Release Date: 1999-02-02
Music Label: Music Little People
Soundtracks:
- Bed in Summer
- Wind
- Pirate Story
- Rain
- Land of Counterpane
- My Shadow
- Where Go the Boats?
- Auntie's Skirts
- Young Night Thought
- From a Railway Carriage
- To My Mother
- Block City
- Foreign Lands
- Moon
- Lamplighter
- To Any Reader
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Music Review: You and your kids will love the Celtic treatments of these poems
Rating: 5 Stars
These song settings of poems from Stevenson (of Treasure Island fame) are done in the familiar Celtic genre, with model inflections (the Mixolydian flat seventh is often prominent) and characteristic Irish instruments such as fiddle, whistle and Uilleann pipes. Tracks alternate between songs featuring a solo adult voice of either gender with those that feature children. The tunes are great, the arrangements are fresh and contemporary without being commercial (no "poppy" trap drum or bass parts), and the musicians comfortable in the style. This would be a memorable, standout, Celtic folk album if it had garden-variety lyrics, but the fact that you're hearing these lovely if quaint poems elevates it to top tier. Our little girls love to fall asleep to this CD. One of the poems/songs is even about pretend pirate play, a nice allusion to Stevenson's magnum opus. The texts are included in the CD insert. You won't regret adding this to your collection if you either have children or enjoy Celtic music.
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As a young Scotsman, the famous author Robert Louis Stevenson suffered a childhood of illness and frailty. As a result, Stevenson developed a rich inner life as well as an author's keen sense of observation. Much of A Child's Garden of Verses comes from this period of relative infirmity. And on A Child's Garden of Songs we most agreeably find these same charmingly insightful words set to music, sung and played by a cast of singers and musicians in fashions that range from whimsical ("Auntie's Skirts") to magical ("From a Railway Carriage") to wistful ("To Any Reader"). Written expressly for children, these poems breathe life into new worlds born of a love for language. Coupled with fine arrangements on Celtic pipes and strings, this is a fertile garden of enrichment for the whole family. --Paige La Grone
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