Thursday, November 10, 2016

Election results... Phan sings Ives

Brilliant tenor Nicholas Phan sums up the 2016 presidential election results: grecchinois.blogspot.com.

Singing Charles Ives' setting of Robert Underwood Johnson's poem The Housatonic at Stockbridge, he says "The river of progress is, like the Housatonic of Johnson's poem, sometimes 'overshy' and sometimes 'masks its beauty from the eager eye'. But I do believe it will continue to carry us ever onward, and that this week's shocking result is just a 'restive ripple' which encourages a 'faster drift'".