This has long been a favourite of mine. It’s even stayed
near the top of the list of ‘songs I’d like to have played at my funeral,
please.’ Somebody compiled a video of images and posted it to YouTube, and many
of them seem highly inappropriate to me, however commendable they are as
photographs. There’s a line that runs:
Elsewhere a snow fell
The first in the
winter
Covered the ground as
The bells filled the
air
What does the video compiler give us to accompany it? A
train. A train?
The music speaks for itself, of course, especially at the
end where there are five repetitions of a phrase. As each one unfolds, the base
harmony gradually takes over from the melody. Magic.
It’s here if you want to hear it:
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