Oh, passin' the love o' women

[sovay]

I dreamed that Benjamin Britten had set both the first and second series of the Barrack-Room Ballads (1892 and 1896) for voice and piano; the recordings had just become available on CD. You should have heard Peter Pears on "Follow Me 'Ome."

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[sovay]

Interestingly, some of them were linked by the participation of a phantom composer, whose name I can almost but not quite remember.

I have that happen a lot with books I dream.

some sort of Les Mis/G&S/Tolkien-Lewis-type-epic fusion, with some random way-back New England history thrown in

That sounds very much like the kind of music your brain would generate.

Then I decided to put the music aside to go eat, and woke up and found it was time for dinner.

Fortuitous!

[fleurdelis28.livejournal.com]

I have that happen a lot with books I dream.

Same here.

That sounds very much like the kind of music your brain would generate.

I think it involved Major-General Stanley somehow traveling east via Iceland and falling in with the Puritans to help found the early colonies. It was a great "and you never knew!" moment, until I woke up and it made no sense whatever.

[fleurdelis28.livejournal.com]

West, rather. *sigh*