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On Wings of Song, Sweetheart, I carry you away, Away to the fields of the Ganges, Where I know the most beautiful place. There is a garden of red flax In the quiet moonlight; The lotus flowers await their charming little sister. The violets giggle and caress, And gaze up at the stars; Secretly the roses tell each other Fragrant fairy-stories.
On Wings of Song" (German: "Auf Flügeln des Gesanges"), Op. 34, No. 2, MWV K 86, is a piece by Felix Mendelssohn, the second of his "six songs for voice and piano" (Opus 34-2, 1834). [1] It is a setting of the poem Auf Flügeln des Gesanges by the German Romantic poet Heinrich Heine published in his Buch der Lieder in 1827.
"Auf Flügeln des Gesanges", On Wings of Song (Mendelssohn), 1834 song Arrangement by Franz Liszt for solo piano (S. 547) "Auf Flügeln des Gesanges", setting of the poem by Franz Lachner. On Wings of Song, 1979 science fiction novel by Thomas Disch; Love Me Forever, also released as On Wings of Song, 1935 American drama film
The Book of Common Prayer text of "In the midst of life we are in death" has been set to music in the Booke of Common praier noted (1550) by John Merbecke [11] and in Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary by Henry Purcell. A well-known adaptation is the 1550s choral work Media vita in morte sumus by John Sheppard.
Gamboa's book shows the US copyright to "We Shall Overcome" to have been claimed by music publisher, The Richmond Organization, Inc. since 1960 with no attribution to its original author. The book links Shropshire's Gospel hymn, "If My Jesus Wills"—composed sometime between 1932 and 1942 and most commonly known as "I'll Overcome", to an ...
"Stay Down Here Where You Belong" is a pacifist novelty song written by Irving Berlin in 1914, presumably in opposition to the Great War. The lyrics describe a conversation between the devil and his son, the devil exhorting him to "stay down here where you belong" because people on Earth do not know right from wrong.
Sad Wings of Destiny is the second studio album by English heavy metal band Judas Priest, released on 26 March 1976 by Gull Records.It is considered the album on which Judas Priest consolidated their sound and image, and songs from it such as "Victim of Changes" and "The Ripper" have since become live standards.
"Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" is an American popular song published in 1931, [1] with music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by Ted Koehler, and first recorded by Cab Calloway in 1931. It was introduced in the 1931 Cotton Club show Rhythmania [ 2 ] and is now a widely recorded standard .