Fans of choral music? Fans of Robert Frost? Fans of both?

[bertha katzenengel]

Check out "Frostiana," a suite of seven Frost poems scored by Randall Thompson. Available on CD, "The Testament of Freedom" (Koch International Classics is the label). Recorded by the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra and the New York Choral Society.

The Road Less Traveled
The Pasture
Come In
The Telephone
A Girl's Garden
Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening
Choose Something Like A Star

I sang this in high school and have been in love w/ Frost's work ever since.

[bertha katzenengel]

1. New Year's Day kick

:kick: for the music lovers

[MrBenchley]

2. By the way

You can sing "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" to the tune of "Hernando's Hideaway"...ole!

[bertha katzenengel]

3. LOL

That is a riot!

[MrBenchley]

4. Don't know if you know of James Wright

the great American poet...I studied with him in college...

He went to Antrioch college with E.L. Doctorow after WW2, and he and Doctorow convinced a friend of theirs to attend a reading by Robert Frost and ask out loud after one of the poems "Mr. Frost, is that a real poem or did you make it up yourself?" Frost just glared at the kid and went on.

[bertha katzenengel]

5. *blink*

:rofl: AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH :rofl:

whose woods
these are
i think i know --

:rofl:

[MrBenchley]

6. Ole!!

Homer and Jethro used to do a version called "Fernando's Hideaway" that began

It's up
Above
A vacant lot....

[bertha katzenengel]

7. uh-oh... I don't know that one...

nor Homer & Jethro. :dunce: :philistine:

[MrBenchley]

8. They were big medicine when I was eight or nine years old

Lift up your eyes, Tom Dooley
Raise your eyeballs to the moon
'Cause if the sponsor don't cancel Lone Ranger
He's gonna be here soon