Our matching folio features all 12 songs from the CD the first release in five years from this ethereal Irish new age artist. Includes: A Day Without Rain · Fallen Embers · The First of Autumn · Flora's Secret · One by One · Only Time · Pilgrim · Silver Inches · Wild Child · and more plus color photos and a separate lyric section.

Tristia is a song-cycle to words by Osip Mandelstam one of the founding members of the so-called Acmeist school of Russian poetry - a movement which has much in common with both Symbolism and Imagism. As a Jewish dissident who had survived the Russian Revolution of 1917 and fallen foul of the subsequent Soviet regime Mandelstam found it increasingly difficult to get either recognition or employment. In 1934 he was arrested for having written a satirical poem about Stalin. He perished four years later in a labour camp. Though he died in complete obscurity - nobody seems to know for certain the exact time or place of his death - his memory was kept alive by the courageand devotion of his wife Nadezhda whose book Hope against Hope is a moving chronicle of their last few years together.The five poems which make up the cycle are taken from the collection published in 1922 under the title Tristia a reference to the work of the same name by the exiled Latin poet Ovid. The poems are set in English but even in translation they convey the essence of Mandelstam's highly personal associative style. As such they express the reactions of an alienated sensitive and classically-educated outsider to the turbulent events he had so recently lived through.The five poems which make up the cycle are taken from the collection published in 1922 under the title Tristia a reference to the work of the same name by the exiled Latin poet Ovid. The poems are set in English but even in translation they convey the essence of Mandelstam's highly personal associative style. As such they express the reactions of an alienated sensitive and classically-educated outsider to the turbulent events he had so recently lived through.

Originally on the soundtrack from the motion picture We Were Soldiers and performed at Ronald Reagan's funeral this moving tribute to the members of the Armed Forces is once again relevant. To fallen soldiers let us sing Where no rockets fly or bullets wing Our broken brothers let us bring To the Mansions of the Lord Available for SATB divisi SAB 2-Part and TTBB. Concert Band Accompaniment (Gr.3) Optional String Pak and ShowTrax CD also available. Performance Time: Approx. 1:40

Originally on the soundtrack from the motion picture 'We Were Soldiers' and performed at Ronald Reagan's funeral this moving tribute to the members of the Armed Forces is once again relevant. To fallen soldiers let us sing Where no rockets fly or bullets wing Our broken brothers let us bring To the Mansions of the Lord Available for SATB divisi SAB 2-Part and TTBB. Concert Band Accompaniment (Gr.3) Optional String Pak and ShowTrax CD also available. Performance Time: Approx. 1:40