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Review of Singing in St. Andrews
This is a cute (but not sappy) vignette about simple and universal expressions of love. The couple are instantly likeable and this short interview creates a vivid portrait. This would make for a nice drop-in almost anytime, especially around Valentine's Day, Sweetest Day, etc.
I'd like to see the narration stripped out of the interview itself. Once the narration describes the kissing and blushing, I realized a didn't need a narration anymore--I just want to hear them. Everything the internal narration says after the basic introduction (ending about :35 into piece) is either covered elsewhere or redundant to the interviewees' comments. I listened to it a few times, mentally edited out the voice over, and I think it would make the portrait even stronger. Further, I must admit that I agree--the bookends of "Amazing Grace" feel a little cliche here. Bagpipe music isn't mentioned in the piece--so why is it there? |
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Review of Singing in St. AndrewsEverything is lovely here, but you don't want Amazing Grace as the bookends. Yeah, on the bagpipes, it says Scotland, but a dog on a leash with bagpipes will say Scotland. What's wanted here is an unknown tune -- mysterious and haunting. The rest is absolutely delightful. |
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ANSTRUTHER
BAGPIPES MUSIC
Dmae: The village of Anstruther. On the Eastern coastline of Scotland. Just outside of Fife Ness and the Firth of Forth and a few miles from St. Andrews where golf was invented.
Eddie and Isabel Macgrachy, an elder couple still in love hang laundry outside their cottage home. Eddie stops a second and gives his wife of nearly 60 years a kiss on the cheek. She laughs and blushes.
Isabel: Ah?
Eddie: I give her a kiss every morning.
Isabel: This is a lesson for ya? gels?
Dmae: How does he show his romantic side?
Isabel: Well he?s very caring and very loving. Caring?I?m very lucky to have such a good husband.
Eddie: (sings) Come into the garden, Maud?for the black dark night has flown?Come into the garden, Maud. I?m here at the gate alone?
Dmae: Eddie isn?t embarrassed to romance his wife Isabel in front of the neighbors or even in front...
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Timing and Cues
Bagpips music bed at the beginning and end.
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Chris Frear
Posted on November 08, 2005 at 03:16 PM | Permalink
Review of Singing in St. Andrews
Would have liked a longer piece, with slightly shorter music on eitehr end. Apart from that, the quality you come to expect from Dmae's work is all there.
Great to find somethign about a local place, Anstruther is jsut 10 minutes down the road, yet made by someone form a different cultural background.
Did you get any more tape of the these "local" people, Dmae?
Regards,
Chris In Scotland.