여수(旅愁)_Dreaming of Home & Mother/ John P. Ordway

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

John Pond Ordway (August 1, 1824 – April 27, 1880) was a doctor, composer, music entrepreneur, and politician.

Born in Salem, Massachusetts, in the mid-1840s John Ordway and his father Aaron opened a music store in Boston. John was also a music publisher and composer; his song Twinkling Stars are Laughing, Love (1855) was recorded by the Hayden Quartet as late as 1902 and 1904. Dreaming of Home and Mother(1851) was a popular sentimental song of the Civil War era, and continues to be played; it is popular in China and Japan in translated versions.  Around 1845 he organized Ordway's Aeolians, a blackface minstrel troupe which performed atOrdway Hall in Boston and also nationally to promote Ordway's publishing business. Future bandleader/composer Patrick Gilmore worked in Ordway's store and also appeared with the Aeolians. James Lord Pierpont's first major composition "The Returned Californian" in 1852 was written expressly for Ordway and his troupe. A number of 19th century songs were written for the Aeolians and/or dedicated to Ordway, including Jingle Bells.

Graduating from Harvard Medical College in 1859, Ordway was one of the first surgeons to volunteer at the start of the Civil War, serving in the 6th Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. He was one of the Union surgeons sent to tend to the wounded after the Battle of Gettysburg.

Ordway served from 1859 to 1873 on Boston's School Board, and one term (1868) in theMassachusetts General Court. He was opposed to corporal punishment in schools, sponsoring a bill to that effect in the legislature.

Ordway was also responsible for founding the Massachusetts Angler's Association, the forerunner to the Massachusetts Fish and Game Association. He died in Boston, Massachusetts.

His nephew Lucius Pond Ordway (the son of his older brother Aaron Ordway) was a major backer of 3M in its early days and served as its president.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_P._Ordway

 

                                      

『旅愁』라고 알려진 이 노래는 하버드 의대 출신 의사, 음악가

그리고 정치가였던 미국인 John P. Ordway(1824-1880)가 작사 자곡한

『Dreaming of Home and Mother』란 노래다.

 

Ordway는 미국 음악사에 남는 가곡을 많이 작곡한

Stephen Foster ("Father of American Music", 1826-1864)나

'할아버지 시계'의 원작자 Henry Clay Work(1932-1884)와

거의 같은 시기에 활동한 음악가 이다.

유감스럽게도 어디에도 사진이 없다.

 

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[미국 가곡, 민요] 15곡 메들리 연주 및 개별곡 노래와 연주

스와니 강(Old Folks At Home) 외 다수

  

  

 

Dreaming of Home & Mother/ John P. Ordway

수정금 연주 by Wang Sheng Di

 

수정을 깎아 실로폰 모양으로 만든 수정금은 수정만큼이나 영롱하고 순수한 음색의 악기 이다. 물방울이 떨어지는 소리 같기도 하고, 새소리 같기도 한 이 악기로 연주되는 명상음악은 마음의 평온과 정화를 가져다 준다.

 

 

 한국에서는 여수(旅愁) 란 제목으로 불린다.

  

박인수

 

 

 이연실 

 

 

Cranberry Sauce for Thanksgiving Dinner 2014

 

 

[미국 가곡, 민요] 15곡 메들리 연주 및 개별곡 노래와 연주

스와니 강(Old Folks At Home) 외 다수  

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