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mundungus42

Another day of gloom

Jun 05, 2019 12:43

Well, my weather app, which for the past two days failed to predict any of the preciptation we got, seems to have made a tweak that acknowledges that drizzle is still rain. However, it seems to have gone a bit too far in the opposite direction, because I walked the dogs in "precipitation for the next 120 minutes" and the mist was so light that the ( Read more... )

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too_dle_oo June 5 2019, 22:13:01 UTC

That's a classic limerick! I'm never going to be able to sing Willan the same way again. :)

mundungus42 June 5 2019, 22:19:01 UTC

Willan LOVED limericks and penned a number of them including:

There was a young lady of Wantage
Of whom the town clerk took advantage.
"Of course you must pay her!"
Said the County Surveyor,
"You've altered the line of her frontage!"

He also wrote one about a second soprano named Isabelle that he even set to music that I wish I could remember in toto.

too_dle_oo June 5 2019, 22:22:17 UTC

AND HE APPARENTLY SCORED THE LIMERICKS ABOUT CHORISTERS FOR VOICE AND PIANO!!!!!! How do we get our hands on these for performance?????

https://healeywillan.com/catalog/the-healey-willan-catalog/item/4-limericks

(OMG, Healey. I love it. The rhyme of "pay her" and "county surveyor" is particularly good.)

mundungus42 June 5 2019, 22:31:04 UTC

I don't know if they were published, but I'll ask RV on Thursday!

RV has a cell phone photograph of the hand-written score of "A Second Soprano named Isabel," which he played and AM sang as an encore for one of our Willan West concerts and it was adorable. I think he snapped it when he was visiting with Mary Willan in Toronto on one of their trips. (They're making a documentary about him.)

The Yvette limerick appears in his biography, and I think one rhyme was "and she really was rather a pet..." and something slightly rude about a vicar. *giggles* Proper limerick, that.

too_dle_oo June 5 2019, 22:37:55 UTC

Ooh, thanks! According to the Willan Society page, it's 4 pages in Willan's own hand, a manuscript score from December 24, 1935. It indicates that it's in the holdings of the National Library of Canada (at least I'm guessing that's what NL of C means), but as I search the online catalog there, I'm coming up empty.

And... looks like nobody's ever published this. Hmm...

Proper limericks have to be a little on the rude side! Without something like that, I'm not sure if they count!

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