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Registered: January 2012 Posts: 537
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Thu June 13, 2013 02:36
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Rating: 10.00
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Just listened to this over and over on a loop while on the night shift at work... so beautiful!
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Marian
Registered: April 2012 Posts: 450
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I am listening and enjoying reliving the memory of this concert now and so thankyou for bringing this track into the spotlight again.
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Marian
Registered: April 2012 Posts: 450
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Am listening to this lovely song again a year later and coming up to Easter. So glad I made the recording of the concert.
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Admin
Registered: January 2012 Posts: 537
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Glad you posted that... I'm listening to it too now!
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Marian
Registered: April 2012 Posts: 450
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Sir Hugh Roberton, who composed the music for All In The April Evening and also conducted the Glasgow Orpheus Choir, had a son Kenneth. He lived in a converted windmill in Wendover and published music under the name of Roberton Publications. I remember going there one day and, as Mr Roberton was unavailable, had a chat about music and publishing with his housekeeper at the 'front' door of the windmill. I was invited to go back at a later date with the music-books I had written but something must have happened to change my circumstances and so I didn't go. I regret that so much now but visiting a windmill was an unusual experience. Kenneth Roberton must have been proud to publish the work of his father, especially All In The April Evening. He wrote the music to Kathleen Tynan's poem and the finished work amounts to perfection
and must still give ongoing pleasure to choirs and audiences even now.
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Marian
Registered: April 2012 Posts: 450
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It is so nice to listen to All In The April Evening again. Such a beautiful work.
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