This One’s for Mr. Sippican

Filed under:Blogging,It's My Life,Music — posted by Anwyn on August 17, 2008 @ 1:07 am

Mr. Sippican Cottage, that is. Although I’m not sure it’s the kind of music he enjoys. But I love it, and it reminds me of the way Mr. Sippican writes about his wife, about his children, about his life in terms of them.

You know “Ashokan Farewell,” right? Unless you were living under a rock with no cable during the time of The Civil War, the mini-series, you know it. This is by the same composer, Jay Ungar. A cousin of mine who is a dead ringer for Loren Dean and I have talked about who would play me and various other cousins in our life story. The lady at the piano, Molly Mason, would have to be played by Stockard Channing–look at those cheekbones! (Cousin and I couldn’t come up with a satisfactory actor look-alike for me. Go figure.)

I played this in trio yesterday with a couple of great musicians I get to flute around with every few weeks–a fiddler and a guitarist. I flute as aforementioned and also sing–mostly old Peggy Lee songs that Mr. Sippican would probably approve of. “Lovers’ Waltz,” by Jay Ungar. Gorgeous.

2 comments »

  1. Oh hai.

    Very nice. I dint now you was a musican.

    Comment by sippican — August 27, 2008 @ 9:26 am

  2. Two degrees in the stuff and taught it in the public schools for 3.5 years. Now I edit books. And direct my church’s handbell choir, which is nice.

    Comment by Anwyn — August 27, 2008 @ 1:56 pm

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