Blessed cornfields ... Hiawatha! When a young child I could recite the early lines; the early morning of America had caught our mother's imagination when she was a child in the first years of 20thC Britain. The 1855 Longfellow had inspired the European composers, famously Dvořák 'New World', 1893, and shortly before mother's early days a mixed-race Englishman Coleridge-Taylor. His Song was played all over the world but he never received a penny ... so it goes.
I was fortunate 50y ago to see the flash of paddles across the shining water further north from you on a long lake into the old wilderness, and very memorably wonder at a new birch-bark canoe.
Blessed cornfields ... Hiawatha! When a young child I could recite the early lines; the early morning of America had caught our mother's imagination when she was a child in the first years of 20thC Britain. The 1855 Longfellow had inspired the European composers, famously Dvořák 'New World', 1893, and shortly before mother's early days a mixed-race Englishman Coleridge-Taylor. His Song was played all over the world but he never received a penny ... so it goes.
I was fortunate 50y ago to see the flash of paddles across the shining water further north from you on a long lake into the old wilderness, and very memorably wonder at a new birch-bark canoe.
Beautiful. Wonderful. Lovely. Amazing how a bit of art can connect us all, and for so many years!
The whole piece is a song! Lovely.
Very kind of you to say. Better for all of us that I let the words sing for me :)