Bright is the Ring of Words, Vaughan Williams - Robin Hendrix

Robin Hendrix sings Ralph Vaughan Williams' beautiful ode to poets, and the ring of words they create. Michel Prezman accompanies on this performance recorded Oct 2008 in Holland. The poetry is by Robert Louis Stevenson, author of A Child's Garden of Verses, Treasure Island, and so many other great works. The poetry was written while Stevenson was taking a journey across the Cevennes of France, trying to make up his mind whether to marry an American divorcé, or to follow the dictates of his Scottish family, who could not tolerate such a match. Stevenson hired a donkey, and took nearly a year to journey through the French outback, so to speak, writing his memoires of the trip. The resulting book, Travels with a Donkey, and also the wonderful poetry that resulted, record his experiences and emotions of the trip, with its reasons and its results. The stars were incredible for him, and each night he was regaled by them. In Bright is the Ring of Words, he sings of the poet (singer) who writes the "songs", and that other swains will sing them long after the poet is dead. The lover lingers and sings the poems, and the maid remembers.

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• Robin Hendrix
• Vaughan Williams
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• Stevenson
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• donkey
• poets
• Michel Prezman
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Lusciously sung!