Comments on: Mider’s Song by Fiona Macleod

By: pauline

pauline — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 15:27:25 +0000

I remember this as a song from a play done in elementary school in the 1940′s…a beautiful tune.You can go to You Tube and hear this song sung.

By: Natalie Lynn

Natalie Lynn — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 22:36:55 +0000

Thanks Charon, I will check it out!

By: Natalie Lynn

Natalie Lynn — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 22:28:08 +0000

Thanks Derek, I love this poem and I find William Sharp to be very interesting. Thanks for the info.

By: CHARON

CHARON — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 01:25:04 +0000

ps – sorry, meant to add that the vocal score is also available there.

By: CHARON

CHARON — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 01:22:53 +0000

Anyone who wants to hear this being sung will find it on “Kenneth McKellar – The Decca Years.” If you look for it on Amazon, you will be able to listen to an excerpt. It’s a lovely, well rounded version, which hits all the right parts.

By: Derek Roper

Derek Roper — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 21:45:29 +0000

The words are by “Fiona Macleod” (pseudonym of William Sharp) and the song comes into Macleod’s fairy play The Immortal Hour (1900). The play was set to music by Rutland Boughton in 1916. With Gwen Frangcon-Davies in a leading role, it drew a “small but enraptured audience”, some of whom went many times, to the Regent Theatre, London, in 1923. See introduction by Terence de Vere White to the Virago Press edition of Love, by Elizabeth von Arnim.

By: Maisie Egger

Maisie Egger — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 09:50:30 +0000

This poem /song can be found on YouTube. It was often recorded on the BBC and was very popular. We sang it as children, so where does the notion come from that it is not suitable for children … Hans Christian Andersen, anyone?

Mairi

By: Lucille Kerns

Lucille Kerns — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:28:22 +0000

Grew up singing this song in England in school.
Does anyone know who recorded it,please?