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incandescensFrom music to music . . . while reading through the newspaper today, glancing at the letters page, I saw a reference to "Sydney Carter's obituary the other week," and I blinked, and then I blinked again.
Yes. On research, it was that Sydney Carter.
What do I remember? I remember, as a child at school and at Sunday school, singing stuff like Lord of the Dance (yes, I know it was a Quaker tune originally), and Travel On and Judas and Mary and One More Step and When I Needed A Neighbour and Every Star Shall Sing A Carol. They were tuneful songs with reasonable lyrics. I remembered them.
One day at boarding school, when I was 16 or 17, going through some of the shelves in the non-fiction section of the library. Some of the things which accumulated there were quite interesting. I came across a set of songbooks by a certain Sydney Carter, and was astonished to find that he was the person who'd written all those songs, and that he had also attended Christ's Hospital before me. I photocopied a few of those songs, and still have them on a shelf somewhere.
His obituary is at http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,3604,1170682,00.html , for the curious.
Yes. On research, it was that Sydney Carter.
What do I remember? I remember, as a child at school and at Sunday school, singing stuff like Lord of the Dance (yes, I know it was a Quaker tune originally), and Travel On and Judas and Mary and One More Step and When I Needed A Neighbour and Every Star Shall Sing A Carol. They were tuneful songs with reasonable lyrics. I remembered them.
One day at boarding school, when I was 16 or 17, going through some of the shelves in the non-fiction section of the library. Some of the things which accumulated there were quite interesting. I came across a set of songbooks by a certain Sydney Carter, and was astonished to find that he was the person who'd written all those songs, and that he had also attended Christ's Hospital before me. I photocopied a few of those songs, and still have them on a shelf somewhere.
His obituary is at http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,3604,1170682,00.html , for the curious.
