Piano: Are Wallin (B1), he is so quiet every day, I’ve never known that he can play the piano very well.

Solo: Sara Sjöberg (S1), she plays flute too and she is a doctor in the medical department. She can control her voice very well, always leads the right tone.

Lyrics:

The sleepy sound of a tea-time tide
Slaps at the rocks the sun has dried,
Too lazy, almost, to sink and lift
Round low peninsulas pink with thrift.
The water, enlarging shells and sand,
Grows greener emerald out from land

And brown over shadowy shelves below
The waving forests of seaweed show.

Here at my feet in the short cliff grass
Are shells, dried bladderwrack, broken glass,

Pale blue squills and yellow rock roses.
The next low ridge that we climb discloses

One more field for the sheep to graze
While, scarcely seen on this hottest of days,

Far to the eastward, over there,
Snowdon rises in pearl-grey air.

Multiple lark-song, whispering bents,
The thymy, turfy and salty scents

And filling in, brimming in, sparkling and free
The sweet susurration of incoming sea.

Please enjoy…

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Today, it comes to the English songs. The concert are coming into the LOVE part. There are three English songs, “April is in My Mistress Face”"Fair Phiyllis”"Mother I Will Have A Husband”,then was a solo song “A Bay in Anglesey”, a song by four girls “Att Angora En Brygga”, then a song written by a muscian in our choir “Serenad för Två”

This song I will post today, “April is in My Mistress Face” was written by Thomas Morley and published in the year 1594. There are 8 versions of this song already in CPDL.ORG.

Here’s a piece of news: there will be a concert to celebrate 600 years of choirs in Shanghai. You can go and listen if you are intereted. The second song of the concert is “April is in My Mistress Face”.

The lyrics are very simple please listen:

April is in my mistress’ face,
And July in her eyes hath place;
Within her bosom is September,
But in her heart a cold December.

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