Music: Lithuania: Biruté Dambrauskaité singing Palinkék Man Garu Kalédu

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Biruté Dambrauskaité singing Palinkék Man Garu Kalédu with a jaunty polka-like lilt, evoking tradition with an upbeat contemporary extension of the genre.

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Music: Song: Classical Handel for oratorio Semele, based on poem by William Congreve

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Where e'er you walk, cool gales shall fan the glade ....

We used to sing this piece by George Frederic Handel (1685-1759) for our music teacher, Harry Banks -- also an organist of great repute and an experimental virtuoso on the instrument in the chapel of Girard College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (circa 1948-1955). The poem is by William Congreve (1670-1729), British, English I presume.  Congreve also wrote "some of the most popular English plays of the Restoration period





Hat Tip to Lucas Freire Grassi, University of Exeter, Brasileriro and English gentleman.


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