Friday - November 20, 2009

Musical Interlude

Part 1

Related to the previous post ... we get a whole lotta mileage out of old Dvorak’s Symphony #9.

Here’s Academy Award winning actress Deanna Durbin, who at 87 continues to live in peaceful seclusion, signing Goin’ Home. Eye candy for Peiper, because I know he likes the old time ladies. She’s 25 in this video.

The music is straight from the Largo in #9, and the words were written by his assistant William Arms Fisher. Two DWEMs ( Dead White European Males ), yet the song is so evocative of a Negro Spiritual that it’s probably considered racist these days to watch a white woman sing it. Yet ... the underlying themes, the soul of the song, is just as authentically Bohemian as it is authentically Black.  And some say the tune is even older, that it was an old Scottish song long before any negro slave every heard it. Go figure.

These days it’s mostly played at funerals, but that was not the intent of the original. Like I said, ya learn something new here every day.

So here she is, cut from the film It started with Eve from 1941 ...

While running down a couple of versions of Goin’ Home I found Mary Fahl doing Going Home, one of the tunes from the wonderful Gods and Generals film. Gonna hafta get myself a copy of that show one of these days, along with the Ken Burns series. I’ve always loved how deeply the Celtic blood runs in American folk music. This one is lovely. And so is the song!

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