What is lovely in this is the string arrangement. Renee Fleming, if you don’t know of her, is the star soprano of the Metropolitan Opera. She likes to stretch her wings and try other material. In this case, a Blossom Dearie composition arranged by Edgar Meyer. The recording is for Yo yo Ma’s Christmas album from 2008, Songs of Joy and Peace.
Enjoying the second half of life. I have three sons who are the apples of my eye and a wonderful husband of 35 years--those are the important things. Long ago, out of the blue, I became a Christian. It was something I never planned on, but what joy it has been. I do website development and I like to read and garden and paint and I love beauty and truth.
How wonderful to see it happen. I had gotten out that album a few days ago and listened a few times so I knew how gorgeous this would be and it sure is
The Bible Tells Me So
The Thirteenth Tale
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Into Thin Air
A Month in the Country
Father Melancholy's Daughter
Books Read in 2015
Orphan Train
An Altar in the World
The Nightingale
The Way We Live Now
The Magnificent Ambersons
Wolf Hall
An Unnecessary Woman
Unforgettable
Poking a Dead Frog
The Awakening
The Spy Who Came In From the Cold
Gone to Earth
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
Ordinary Grace
True Grit
A Vintage Affair
The Persian Pickle Club
Fair and Tender Ladies
Books Read in 2014
And God Spoke
The Road
Single & Single
Riding Rockets
Living on the Border of the Holy
The Rapture of Canaan
State of Wonder
All the Light We Cannot See
Quartet in Autumn
The Chaperone
Speaker for the Dead
Introducing the New Testament
Unbroken
Call the Midwife
Gone Girl
Thirteen Moons
Books Read in 2013
Memoirs of a Geisha
Firstlight
Wuthering Heights
Bel Canto
Moonfleet
The Tiger's Wife
When You Are Engulfed in Flames
The Poisonwood Bible
What's So Amazing About Grace
Red Sparrow
The Fallen Angel
The Dark is Rising
City Boy
Year of Wonders
Books Read in 2012
Hannah Coulter
The Grapes of Wrath
Dracula
Keeping Faith: A Novel
The Honk and Holler Opening Soon
The Franchise Affair
A Game of Thrones
11/22/63
The Alto Wore Tweed
Bridge of Birds
Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
The Weirdstone of Brisingamen
The Life of Pi
Snow Falling on Cedars
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Gilead
Emma
Books Read in 2011
Follow the River
7 Habits of Highly Effective People
God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
A Prayer for Owen Meany
My Antonia
The Last Word
The Woman in White
The Prisoner of Zenda
The Quotidian Mysteries
The Turn of the Screw
Enchanted April
Sacred Rhythms
How to Make an American Quilt
How Green Was My Valley
Cross Creek
Books Read in 2010
The Power and the Glory
The Memory of Old Jack
The Secret Adversary
Travels With Charley
Lonesome Dove
In Defense of Food
About a Boy
Gilead
Rebecca
The Help
Books Read in 2009
Marley and Me
The Supper of the Lamb
The Secret Garden
Little Lord Fauntleroy
A Little Princess
A Thousand White Women
Seabiscuit
Absolute Truths
The Secret Life of Bees
The Story of Christianity
And God Spoke: The Authority of the Bible
Green Dolphin Street
The Billionaires' Vinegar
Unaccustomed Earth
So Brave, Young and Handsome
My Name is Asher Lev
The Stone Diaries
The Education of Little Tree
In This House of Brede
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
Books Read in 2008
The Brothers Karamazov
Peace Like a River
Anna Karenina
Water for Elephants
Cry, the Beloved Country
The Reason for God
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Grave Mistake
Surprised by Hope
Precious Bane
The Shack
The Divine Hours
It just doesn’t get any better than this, really. :)
How wonderful to see it happen. I had gotten out that album a few days ago and listened a few times so I knew how gorgeous this would be and it sure is