Ship of Fools: Music Request for a Funeral

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Posted by Emendator Liturgia (# 17245) on :

When someone wanted to have 'Paddy MacGinty's Goat' played at their husbands funeral, no problem. Done! When someone wanted the finale of the 1812 Overture - that was even easier.

But now, I'm stumped. Has anyone heard of an obscure (?) Handel piece: 'The Lorne of the love lost turtle'? I can't find it in trust Google - besides it wants to keep on sending me to The Lord of the Rings sites!!! [Mad]

What would be even better would be anyone who doesn't just know it but can direct me also to a source of the music as an .mp3 or such. Really, the family and I would be eternally in your debt.

Posted by seasick (# 48) on :

Is Like as the love lorn turtle what you're looking for?

Posted by Morgan (# 15372) on :

This may not be it (no mention of Handel) but if you Google "love lost turtle" you will find several references to an old song called A Woman Once Found Out, which contains that phrase and has a theme of loss. One link near the bottom of the first page offered by Google is to the Glen Collection of Printed Music which has, as you would expect, the music for it as well as the words.

Posted by Barnabas Aus (# 15869) on :

EmLi, that mp3 linked above seems to fill the bill. It was the only recording of the aria which Kathleen Ferrier made. It is from the opera Atlanta by G F Handel, and was recorded in October 1949 in a live broadcast by Norwegian Radio. Ferrier is accompanied by Phyllis Spurr. I have it on LP in The Kathleen Ferrier Edition, which also has the lyrics, which copyright prevents me from reproducing here. If you'd like the lyrics [only eight lines of verse] send me a PM.

Posted by moveabletype (# 10919) on :

It probably refers to a turtledove (like "The voice of the turtle is heard in the land"), but I like the idea of a melancholy song about a lovelorn turtle.

Posted by Emendator Liturgia (# 17245) on :

Thanks everyone - the correction in the name of the piece helps enormously - we managed to get a good recording of the piece and used it as the gathering music.

That service proved why it is always best to do the order of service yourself for the family - they wanted to do it, sent them the .docx file - and they ended up with a mis-mash with people having to flick pages all of the time. Oh well, such is life and existence.

The 1812 Overture with cannons as the last work went really well! [Biased]

Was a rousing end.

[ 03. February 2013, 06:43: Message edited by: Emendator Liturgia ]

Posted by Devils Advocate (# 16484) on :

I intend going out to either The Magic Fire Music from Die Walküre or Brünnhilde's Immolation from Götterdammerung

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