Conducted by Capt. W. A. FEATHERSTONE
Roy HENDERSON (Baritone) 8.20 SANDY ROWAN (Scottish Comedian)
IN the first song (from the cycle entitled
Songs of the Sea) we have not only the celebration of the pride and glory of the men of Devon in Drake's day, but a note of more recent history-a reference, in the last verse, to the battle of Waggon Hill (South Africa,
January 6th, 1900); the poet imagines Drake turning again from his long rest to bring victory to his men of Devon.
MASEFIELD'S ballad of the man who ' must go down to the sea again ' has attracted several
Composers. Of all the settings John Ireland's seems best to achieve (in the last line of each verse) the sense of longing that the poem expresses —the longing to answer the ' wild call ... that may not be denied.'
THE LITTLE ADMIRAL celebrates th glory of the man in supreme command.
Sometimes tho admiral to his admiring men. ' hardly seemed a mortal like the rest ' ; and once, the seaman sings, ' when hope sank under us,'
' I could swear he had stars upon his uniform, And one sleeve pinned across his breast.'
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