THE MUSIC BOX
March 13, 2022 St. Patrick’s Day
HEARTSTRINGS
Laura Burian, violin; Paulette Lynch, hammered dulcimer; Marj Ingram-Viales, guitar; Mike Osgood, mandolin; Rick Chelew, bass;
Melinda Coffey Armstead, keyboards
Prelude: Amelia – Paddy on the Turnpike/ Tommy’s Tarbukas
Banish Misfortune – Brid’s Farewell – Lisdoonvarna/ Morrison’s Jig
Sally Gardens/The Blarney Pilgrim
Offertory: Celtic Air: Kilmainham Gaol
Postlude: Gary Owen/ Irish Washerwoman
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) was a literary Colossus with one foot in Ireland and the other in England. He completed his greatest works – including The Tower (1928) and The Winding Stair and other Poems (1929) – AFTER they gave him the Nobel Prize, which was a peculiar order to do things. Here’s a (deliciously non-PC) Yeats poem that makes you wonder whether he and Ogden Nash had intertwining DNA:
POLITICS
How can I, that girl standing there, My attention fix On Roman or Russian Or Spanish politics? Yet here’s a travelled man that knows What he talks about, And there’s a politician That has read and thought, And maybe what they say is true, Of war and war’s alarms, But O that I were young again And held her in my arms!
EnJOY!
MCA
