St David's Day

[Roehre]

What's wrong with Owain's Dad's oratorio St David then, he's done it before for the BBC on March 1st!! There's even original Wesh words for it - look you.

Mae'n amlwg eich bod yn Cymro Roehre!!

Rydw

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuPO2Kvqlms

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jb8mK3Ccsl0

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

... or, if you prefer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_6qh68Z2Kk

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

... and, a tribute to Wales' greatest English-language poet from the greatest poet born in the county which seems to have adopted me:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoxIEeYp318

[Anna]

Ferney- Thanks Wonderful.

[Gordon]

Rydw

Da iawn!! Gobeithio byddem yn ennill dros y Sais yn Caerdydd Mawrth 16fed!! Dwi ddim mor pryderus am yr Alban ar 9fed.

Amser clywed Under Milk Wood [gyda Burton] 'rwy'n credu. "Thank the Lord we are a musical nation!"

[Nick Armstrong]

We only get this:

Live from St David's Hall, Cardiff

St David's Day Gala Concert: the BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by Owain Arwel Hughes in Verdi's Requiem
What's wrong with a celebratory concert? Are we going to celebrate St.Georges's day with Mozart's Requiem e.g.

Quite. Plus the relentless trailers for that over the past week or two are among the top most annoying things on Radio 3 lately.

[Hautboiste]

Breakfast also had Catrin Finch playing something weird and not Welsh and something by Thomas Tompkins because he was born in St David's. I have long given up with Radio 3 and St David's Day.

[teamsaint]

Quite. Plus the relentless trailers for that over the past week or two are among the top most annoying things on Radio 3 lately.

Too true.

i was thinking perhaps that Verdi qualified to write music for Wales by having a half Welsh great uncle, or something.....

[amateur51]

He got an airing in this household in the guise of ‘Aberystwyth’ (‘Jesu Lover of My Soul’/’Iesu cyfaill f'enaid i’), one of my favourite hymns, in an off-air recording of a broadcast from a Welsh chapel.

A Happy St. David's Day to you too!.

A great hymn tune, tenors with their heads well back, giving it large

[Anna]

Who mentioned the Rev Eli Jenkins? (oh, it was Gordon!)

Oh angels be careful there with your knives and forks,

FIRST VOICE

he prays. There is no known likeness of his father Esau,
who, undogcollared because of his little weakness, was
scythed to the bone one harvest by mistake when sleeping
with his weakness in the corn. He lost all ambition and
died, with one leg.

REV. ELI JENKINS

Poor Dad,

SECOND VOICE

grieves the Reverend Eli,

REV. ELI JENKINS

to die of drink and agriculture.

Sorry. that bit of Under Milk Wood just makes me laugh so much !!

[Roehre]

Da iawn!! Gobeithio byddem yn ennill dros y Sais yn Caerdydd Mawrth 16fed!! Dwi ddim mor pryderus am yr Alban ar 9fed.

Amser clywed Under Milk Wood [gyda Burton] 'rwy'n credu. "Thank the Lord we are a musical nation!"

Wrth gwrs bydd Cymru yn enill yn Caerdydd Mawrth 16fed. Mae gan y Saes dim chance o gwbl (Wel: gobeithio....) Dim llawr o broblemau efo'r Alban dwy'n meddwl.

[amateur51]

Wrth gwrs bydd Cymru yn enill yn Caerdydd Mawrth 16fed. Mae gan y Saes dim chance o gwbl (Wel: gobeithio....)

[Nick Armstrong]

Sorry. that bit of Under Milk Wood just makes me laugh so much !!

It's wonderful and I shall remember this St David's Day for being reminded of it!

[Anna]

It's wonderful and I shall remember this St David's Day for being reminded of it!

Well, how about being reminded about Gossamer Beynon, you Dylan lover?
In Butcher Beynon's, Gossamer Beynon, daughter, schoolteacher,
dreaming deep, daintily ferrets under a fluttering hummock
of chicken's feathers in a slaughterhouse that has chintz
curtains and a three-pieced suite, and finds, with no surprise,
a small rough ready man with a bushy tail winking in a paper
carrier.

GOSSAMER BEYNON

At last, my love,

FIRST VOICE

sighs Gossamer Beynon. And the bushy tail wags rude and ginger.

The BBc censored Gossamer, hightailing it down the High Street, because she had rouged nipples.