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Soul Music
Topic Started: Oct 11 2016, 04:33 PM (828 Views)
Mobson
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Soul Music returns to BBC Radio 4 on Tuesday 11th October, 2016 at 11.30am....that's happens to be today...Soul Music started in 2000 and is now in its 23rd series, the half an hour programme picks individual pieces of music with a powerful emotional impact, sometimes demonstrating various versions and usually allowing people, famous and infamous, to speak up about why that music personally resonates with them...this new series starts with Sam Cooke's A Change is Gonna Come... http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07x2zd2

Sam wrote Change after hearing Bob Dylan's anthem Blowing in the Wind...his brother LC said that Sam thought it should have been written by a black man...and if he (Dylan) can write a song like that surely I can come up with something equally as good...so he sat down to write a Change gonna come..."he tried to write an anthem to compete with Blowing in the Wind which is a great song...and he sat down and wrote those really moving lyrics which start ..."I was born by the river...."

"Amongst the dread, fear and violence of the 1964 Freedom Summer in Mississippi, political scientist Professor Mary King describes how Sam Cooke’s record became a symbol of hope: "No matter what I’m doing, I stop and I listen to the song, because it’s grabbed my heart." http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p042nm4q

One of my all-time favourites featured in series 9...Dido's Lament by Henry Purcell from the opera Dido & Aeneas...which I intend to have as part of the musical programme at my funeral as it's just 55 bars long and then lets the strings carry the melody through - perfect for a short entrance until placement on the bier!...I favour the improvised version sung by Jeff Bucknall...altho I do like Alison Moyet's version and of course it's tempting to go with an original version sung by a mezzo soprano...altho in Henry Purcell's day you might think it would have been sung by a castrato soprano, and it may well have, if it had been performed in opera houses, but instead received it's premiere in 1687 in a Chelsea girls school! http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00r6029
Edited by Mobson, Oct 26 2016, 10:45 AM.
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