2016-06-19 - First they came for Assange... (Berlin event)

[Kuk91]

Oh, it's actually a Christmas carol: http://www.hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.co ... wander.htm

[Romario11]

https://www.mediafire.com/?7tt8d2mfwd482rb until a better one comes along... skip forward to the end of the interview

[Black Hearted Love]

do you think she'll do something else?

[Kuk91]

do you think she'll do something else?

Probably not. She rarely speaks with "mortals" these days, that's why I was so excited for this event with her being credited as "speaker" (let alone the "main speaker").

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Audio recording:

I Wonder As I Wander

The Glorious Land

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[Amnesiac]

Thanks for the video and the audio files

[Kuk91]

Thanks for the video and the audio files

Agreed, thanks a lot!

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Here's an 87MB MP4 video (only Polly's bit, a conversion of Romario's FLV file).

[Romario11]

Here's an 87MB MP4 video (only Polly's bit, a conversion of Romario's FLV file).

thanks!

[Kuk91]

She is really glowing from the inside as she sings this carol, isn't she? Maybe she was singing it in a church as a child? Also I kinda suspected what this Instagram clip will eventually lead to something.

Believe it or not, but just yesterday I was watching "The Colour Of The Earth" acapella video from "LES" DVD, and the line from "Two Cemeteries" poem came to my mind -
"You can book in to come Christmas carolling".

[Kuk91]

[Romario11]

http://pitchfork.com/news/65976-pj-harv ... th-listen/

[Kuk91]

"I Wonder As I Wander" is a Christmas carol written by folklorist and singer John Jacob Niles. The carol has its origins in a song fragment collected by Niles on July 16, 1933.
While in the town of Murphy in Appalachian North Carolina, Niles attended a fundraising meeting held by evangelicals who had been ordered out of town by the police. In his unpublished autobiography, he wrote of hearing the song:
"A girl had stepped out to the edge of the little platform attached to the automobile. She began to sing. Her clothes were unbelievable dirty and ragged, and she, too, was unwashed. Her ash-blond hair hung down in long skeins... But, best of all, she was beautiful, and in her untutored way, she could sing. She smiled as she sang, smiled rather sadly, and sang only a single line of a song."
The girl, named Annie Morgan, repeated the fragment seven times in exchange for a quarter per performance, and Niles left with "three lines of verse, a garbled fragment of melodic material—and a magnificent idea". (In various accounts of this story, Niles hears between one and three lines of the song.) Based on this fragment, Niles composed the version of "I Wonder as I Wander" that is known today, extending the melody to four lines and the lyrics to three stanzas. His composition was completed on October 4, 1933. Niles first performed the song on December 19, 1933 at the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, North Carolina. It was originally published in "Songs of the Hill Folk" in 1934.
Niles's "folk composition" process caused confusion among singers and listeners, many of whom believed this song to be anonymous in origin. Niles undertook lawsuits to establish its authorship and demanded royalties of other performers of the song.

[Yes_No_Maybe_So]

First song was a cover song called, "I wonder as I wander".

It's been recorded by several artists, mostly pre-80's; Streisand, Julie Andrews, Placido Domingo, for examples.

I've never heard PJ singing quite like that before, so I thought that one was great. I'm curious why she chose that song though, especially given the fact that she didn't know it well enough that she had to keep referring back to the lyrics.

Not crazy about Glorious Land in general so I have no opinion on that second song performance (the, "oh, Engaland, oh, Amareeca" part irritates me and it seemed to irritate me more in this performance).