Luxon & Crofut: 'Tis a gift to be simple
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This video is a response to 03 Traveller - "The Best of Celtic Music"
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So glad there are people like this making wonderful music~~
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Wonderful. I've known both songs forever (especially Simple Gifts) but never heard them combined like this. What a loss to the music world with the death of Crofut and Luxon's hearing impairment.
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is he still alive?
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Che figata!Stupendo!
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Benjamin Luxon's voice was so lovely. It's fortunate that there are so many of his recordings still around.
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Er, no, not quite. This is a New World melody with New World lyrics: "Simple Gifts" ("Tis a gift to be simple") was a hymn composed by Shakers in the United States. The tune features (famously, I thought) in Copland's "Applachian Spring", written in the 1940s. In 1963, Sydney Carter took the melody and wrote a completely new Christian lyric to go with it called "The Lord of the Dance". I find that here in Britain many people believe Carter wrote the melody. He didn't.
jarabaa 11 months ago
@jarabaa Thanks for the insight. The information I listed on the video was from the original video itself. By the way, I looked at your channel and subscribed to it ... I love your selections.
dnworks 11 months ago