One Morning in Spring

[ardcarp]

I heard R3 Breakfast playing in another room and thought:

Finzi? no
Holst? no
VW? no
Delius? no
Butterworth? no


...and couldn't guess.

It was One Morning in Spring by Patrick Hadley, which for some reason I had not encountered before. A charming piece for (I guess) chamber orchestra. I wonder how easy/expensive it is to get the parts?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I wonder how easy/expensive it is to get the parts?

Easy enough - just an e-Mail to OUP:

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/one-morning-in-spring-9780193639010?cc=gb&lang=en&

... but they're not letting on how much they'll charge you until you contact them!

[Pabmusic]

Sad, but true.

You might wait until after January 1st 2044, when I promise that it will appear in my series for MPH of Munich:



Trouble is, at 91 I'd probably have forgotten all about it.

Or worse, I'd have no notion what "it" is.

[Pabmusic]

On reflection, One Morning In Spring is the 5th movement of my suite Where Once We Danced:

https://soundcloud.com/pabmusic-445605675/sets/where-once-we-danced

The full titles are:

Counter-Dance & Jig: Sir John's Maggot & Rupert's Fancy
Pavan & Galliard: Pearl of the Orient & My Ladye's Conceit
Chacony: Where Went You Then?
Round-Dance: The Doctor's Pleasure
Air: One Morning in Spring
Hornpipe: The Professor'sDelight

Each movement is a friend, or in the case of No. 5, my daughter, who was born amid the daffodils. (The recording is a horrible computerised one.)

[greenilex]

Is one allowed to say "chapeau, Monsieur "?

There should be a musketeer sweeping a small feather on the pavement somewhere?

[Pabmusic]

Is one allowed to say "chapeau, Monsieur "?

There should be a musketeer sweeping a small feather on the pavement somewhere?

[CYRANO] – Je sais bien qu’à la fin vous me mettrez à bas ;

N’importe : je me bats ! je me bats ! je me bats !

Il fait des moulinets immenses et s’arrête haletant.

Oui, vous m’arrachez tout, le laurier et la rose !

Arrachez ! Il y a malgré vous quelque chose

Que j’emporte, et ce soir, quand j’entrerai chez Dieu,

Mon salut balaiera largement le seuil bleu,

Quelque chose que sans un pli, sans une tache,

J’emporte malgré vous,

Il s’élance l’épée haute.

Et c’est…

L’épée s’échappe de ses mains, il chancelle, tombe dans les bras de Le Bret et de Ragueneau.

ROXANE, se penchant sur lui et lui baisant le front

C’est ?…

CYRANO, rouvre les yeux, la reconnaît et dit en souriant

Mon panache.

[ardcarp]

Ou, si votre pratique de francais est chute (comme la mienne):

I know that you will lay me low at last;
Let be! Yet I fall fighting, fighting still!
(He makes passes in the air, and stops, breathless):
You strip from me the laurel and the rose!
Take all! Despite you there is yet one thing
I hold against you all, and when, to-night,
I enter Christ's fair courts, and, lowly bowed,
Sweep with doffed casque the heavens' threshold blue,
One thing is left, that, void of stain or smutch,
I bear away despite you.

(He springs forward, his sword raised; it falls from his hand; he staggers,
falls back into the arms of Le Bret and Ragueneau.)

ROXANE (bending and kissing his forehead):
'Tis?. . .

CYRANO (opening his eyes, recognizing her, and smiling):
MY PANACHE*.

THE END

* Pity we haven't got a word for it! Why am I reminded of George W. and entrepreneur?

[EdgeleyRob]

I have 2 recordings of Hadley's One Morning in Spring,both as part of highly recommendable collections

[ardcarp]

Apropos of nothing, Patrick Hadley returned from 1st World War service with a wooden leg. Before publication, his score for My Beloved Spake needed some minor adjustments to the organ part. Hadley himself admitted to "being all but totally ignorant of the ways of the organ (it would have been useless for me ever to have taken it up after the war, at any rate until they insert foot muscles in wooden legs!)"

It is rumoured that he would shock female students (of whom he probably disapproved) by stabbing himself in the leg as he passed them in the street.

[Pabmusic]

I have 2 recordings of Hadley's One Morning in Spring,both as part of highly recommendable collections

I think Hadley wrote it for RVW's 70th birthday (a BBC commission) and Boult conducted it.

[greenilex]

I guess prosthetics have moved on since then....if people run with blades they must also be able to work organ pedals?

I expect the great man carried a penknife to impress the students rather than express disapproval. Shriek!

[greenilex]

Have just found some Theocritus: IX 30 - 36

From the Third Country Singing Match, it is a short praise of the muse of bucolic springtime song.

Can't find correct alphabet just now...but it is in J.M. Edmonds' prose translation.

[Alain Maréchal]

* Pity we haven't got a word for it! Why am I reminded of George W. and entrepreneur?

Robert suggests "gallantry", although that misses the pun about the hat feathers.

[greenilex]

Panache is perfectly good English in my book.

Eurospeak, too. Oiroglot?