George Shearing took two verses from Shakespeare's Love's Labours Lost, titled them Spring, and set them as part of his song cycle Songs and Sonnets for choir and jazz combo his reading of the text is fairly bleak. Two eminent musicians, friends of one another, both approached the same text from William Shakespeare and set the text with equal musical forces, and the two pieces offer polar opposites in their perspectives. The masterful pen of John Rutter created this marvelous Christmas selection that has become a Christmas tradition for mixed choirs.Beauty, temptation, and even sin might sometimes lie in the eye of the beholder. Two expressive verses are taken by the solo baritone, with the chorus performing a macaronic refrain infused with expectancy and.

Once the ball went down to the post, we dropped down and got some help.Dumfounert they heard the blaw, the blaw, Dumfounert, they a ran awa, awa. We've been preaching that all year long and tonight, it actually came to fruition. We helped and then recovered. Defensively, I thought that our perimeter people helped a lot. John Rutter, in the final movement of his Birthday Madrigals that were composed in honor of (and homage to) Shearing, takes the exact same text, and looks at it through another lens.11 John Rutter Quotes Famous Quotes. His music then plays on the ironies of the springtime blossoms and the results of temptation.

From the beginning of the piece, he follows the principal ethos of Shakespeare's lines and sets the images of flush blossoms, shepherd's flutes, and maidens washing their clothes to the same jaunty jazz-inspired rhythms as he does in the first movement of the cycle (lover and lass skip out into the verdant fields) and the third (shepherd is trying to get the maiden to live with him). 'Dunnottar standin by the sea.Rutter adds one verse to the piece to again highlight the joy of sex. The day I plunkit the Sawbath Schule' frae 'Conscience' - Walter Wingate. 'Twas a bonnie day-and a day o dule. Frae 'The Hundred Pipers' - Lady Nairne.