AND SO IT GOES Songs of Folk and Lore Eric Whitacre Ivor Novello Billy Joel The Elora Singers Noel Edison Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958) AND SO IT GOeS Three Shakespeare Songs (1951) 5:22 Songs of Folk and Lore @ (Words: William Shakespeare, 1564–1616) # Full fathom five 2:15 1 Dave Baker (b. 1945) $ The cloud-capp’d towers 1:55 Old Lady Rose (2006) (arr. Larry Nickel, b. 1952) 4:08 Over hill, over dale 1:07 Traditional 2 % Traditional Loch Lomond (arr. Jonathan Quick, b. 1970) 4:31 John Brown’s Body 3 Ruth Watson Henderson (b. 1932) (additional text and arr. Richard Marlow, 1939–2013) 3:02 Five Ontario Folk Songs (1990) – II. The Maggie Hunter 6:47 ^ Stephen Paulus (1949–2014) 4 Derek Healey (b. 1936) Prairie Songs – The old church (2001) 3:10 Six Canadian Folk Songs, Set 1, Op. 41b (1973, ed. elmer Iseler) – (Words: Della B. Vik, 1889–1986) VI. Danse, Mon Moin, Danse! 3:02 & Traditional 5 eric Whitacre (b. 1970) Auld Lang Syne (arr. Iain Farrington, b. 1977) 3:29 Three Flower Songs (1991) (Words: Robert Burns, 1759–1796) – III. Go, lovely rose 3:40 (Words: edmund Waller, 1606–1687) * Rita MacNeil (1944–2013) She’s Called Nova Scotia (1986) (arr. Stuart Calvert, b. 1954) 4:44 6 Traditional Ae fond kiss (1791) (arr. Paul Mealor, b. 1975) 2:25 ( Billy Joel (b. 1949) (Words: Robert Burns, 1759–1796) And So It Goes (1989) 3:40 7 Ivor Novello (1893–1951) ) James Rankin (b. 1964) Perchance to Dream – We’ll Gather Lilacs (1945) 3:27 Fare thee well, love (1990) (arr. Stuart Calvert) 3:49 (arr. Stephen Ralls (b. 1944) ¡ Leon Dubinsky (b. 1941) 8 Stan Rogers (1949–1983) The Rise and Follies of Cape Breton (1984) – Fogarty’s Cove (1976) (arr. Ron Smail, b. 1953) 2:07 We Rise Again (arr. Lydia Adams, b. 1953) 3:22 9 Gordon Lightfoot (b. 1938) Pussy willows, Cat-tails (1967) (arr. Larry Nickel) 3:49 1 2 8 9 0 Gustav Holst (1874–1934) Publishers: Cypr3es !s C)h ¡oral Music , 4 Six Choral Folk Songs, H.136, Op. 36b (1916) – Gordon V. Thompson Music , (ex5-GVT) Warner/Ch6ap & pell , V. I Love My Love 4:15 Santa Barbara M7usic Publishing, Inc. , Novello & Co. 0 , Chappell & Co. , C@hor$al Public Domain Library (CPDL) , % Harry Somers (1925–1999) ! Oxford University Press^ – , Ascolta Music Publishing, Houte*n , Five Songs of the Newfoundland Outports Paulus Publications , Big Pond Publishing an(d Production , (Songs collected by Kenneth Peacock, 1922–2000) – Joelsongs c/o Almo Music Corp. V. Feller from Fortune (1969, ed. elmer Iseler) 2:48 And So It Goes London’s West End in 1945, and it was performed at Shakespeare settings. Do what you like with them... Songs of Folk and Lore Novello’s cremation by its original singer, Olive Gilbert. Yours ever R.V.W.’ Despite this apparent lack of interest From Wales we move northeast to Scotland via Welsh from the composer, the songs have become a staple of Despite profound cultural differences between nations 40 years, Dave Baker (b. 1945) has been writing songs composer Pau6l Mealor (b. 1975) and his arrangement of secular a cappella music and demonstrate a high level of there lie two, common, universal human traits: the urge to about t1he west coast of Canada, with Old Lady Rose Ae fond kiss by the most celebrated figure in Scottish imagination and skill: from the tolling bells and pass on narratives from one generation to the next, and (2006) reflecting upon the fishing lifestyle that is such a culture, Robert Burns (1759–1796). Burns regularly extraordinary harmonies in Full fathom five (from The the urge to sing. The fusion of these two forms of key part of Canadian culture. Similarly, the folk musician travelled and stayed at Edinburgh, where he formed a Tempest ); to The cloud-capp’d Towers (also from The expression gave birth to the folk song, a genre dating and songwriter Stan Rogers (1949–1983) often took relationship with Agnes Maclehose. He wrote Ae fond kiss Tempest ), whose opening chords seem suspended in air; back centuries which enjoyed a particularly strong inspiration from the lives of working people, especially those after their final meeting on 27 December 1791, before she to the playful relief offered in Over hill, over dale (from A renaissance amid the turmoil of the 20th century. At a from the fishing villages of the Maritime provinces, as well left Edinburgh for Jamaica to be with her estranged Midsummer Night’s Dream ). time of global conflict with the two World Wars, several as the farms of the Canadian prairies8 and Great Lakes – in husband. While it remains Burns’ most recorded love The choral music of Vaughan Williams was championed composers sought to expunge even the faintest the case of Fogarty’s Cove (1976) – the Nova Scotia song, in terms of familiarity it does not displace the mo&st by one of the former musical directors of Trinity College, palimpsest of a culture that led to such atrocities, avidly Coast. While Rogers honed a career with traditional- quintessentially Scottish of all his songs, Auld Lang Syne , Cambridge, Richard Marlow (1939–2013), who arranged the seeking to start afresh from Year Zero, wiping out the past sounding songs, Gordon Lightfoot (b. 1938) is often credited traditionally sung after the stroke of midnight to greet the American folk song The Battle% Hymn of the Republic , also and starting from the present. Simultaneously, the reverse with helping to define the folk-pop sound of the 1960s an9d New Year. If this is the most iconic Scottish fo2lk song, known as John Brown’s Body . It was originally a religious approach was gaining traction, with a significant rise in 1970s, the era in which Pussy willows, Cat-tails (1967) coming in a close second is surely Loch Lomond , which camp meeting song written in the 1850s, but when the popularity for folk songs. Here were composers – several was written. Lightfoot was able to count Bob Dylan among first appeared in Vocal Melodies of Scotland (1841). The abolitionist John Brown was executed in 1859, a new set of of whom are represented on this recording, such as his many fans, with Dylan once declaring that when he original composer is unknown, as is any conclusive lyrics was introduced, and by the time the Civil War began Vaughan Williams and Holst – seeking to redefine their heard a Lightfoot song he wished ‘it would last forever’. information about the lyrics, based on a Jacobite lament two years later, the John Brown version of the song had culture. This 20th-century phenomenon of turning back to Rita MacNeil (1944–2013) was a Canadian singer written after the Battle of Culloden, the final battle of the spread throughout the Union army, with soldiers adding new past materials and establishing a national identity in from the community of Big Pond on Nova Scot*ia’s Cape Jacobite Uprising of 1745. verses as they marched through the South. music has continued into the 21st century, and part of its Breton Island, and She’s Called Nova Scotia comes Journeying south from Scotland we come to two of A further example of the Anglo-American relationsh5ip evolution can be traced on this recording, which traverses from her album Flying On Your Own (1986). In 2004, England’s most celebrated 20th-century composers, is found in Go, lovely rose by Eric Whitacre (b. 1970) , Canada, America and the British Isles. MacNeil produced a television special called Rita Gustav Holst (1874–1934) and Ralph Vaughan Williams which sets the eponymous poem by the 17th-century One composer presented here embraced all three of MacNeil’s Cape Breton , featuring Jimmy Rankin (b. 1964) (1872–1958), both of whom played an a0ctive role in English poet and politician, Edmund Waller. Composed in these cultures. In 1969 the English composer Derek of the celebrated Canadian music g)roup The Rankin resuscitating folk melodies. I Love My Love is a Cornish 1991 as one of Three Flower Songs , it is Whitacre’s first Healey (b. 1936) moved to Canada, where he taught at the Family. His song Fare thee well, love was included on folk song, arranged by Holst as one of a collection of Six choral piece and employs the distinctive chord clusters Universities of Victoria, Toronto and Guelph, before The Rankin Family’s album of the same name, and won Choral Folk Songs in 1916. Written at the request of his that have become a hallmark of his compositional style. immigrating to America. D4ating from his stint in Canada, the Juno Award for Single of the Year in 1994 upon re- friend, W.G. Whittaker, who wanted some new music for Fellow American Stephen Paulus (1949–2014) – Danse, Mon Moin, Danse! comes from his first set of Six release¡. The previous year the group released We Rise his choir in Newcastle, Holst hesitated at first but finally described by Whitacre as ‘a true artist’ – s^im ilarly Canadian Folk Songs of 1973 (he composed a second set Again . Leon Dubinsky (b. 1941), a songwriter from relented, dedicating three of the songs (including I Love specialised in writing for choirs. The old church comes fifteen years later). Like Healey, Ruth Watson Henderson Sydney, Nova Scotia, composed this song for the 1984 My Love ) to Whittaker. @ $ from his cycle Prairie Songs of 2001 and belongs to the (b. 1932) arranged folk songs from Canad3a – Five Ontario stage musical The Rise and Follies of Cape Breton , written Vaughan Williams’ Three Shakespeare Songs – same sound world of Whitacre’s distinctly American Folk Songs (of which The Maggie Hunter is the second) as an anthem of resilience and hope at a time when Cape received a similar degree of initial reluctance from their choral writing, not least in its harmonic palette.