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The work was incorporated with other compositions under Opus 19 No. 3, Album leaf.It is rarely played. One of the performances is that of the symphony orchestra of the SNCF with the choirs of the Oratory on the occasion of a Congress of the "Association internationale du congrès des chemins de fer" (AICCF) in 1966.
In January 2015, Waterman announced the sale of the bulk of his model railway collection, to fund the training of rail apprentices in restoring his steam locomotives 5224 and 5553, which in May 2015 were moved from Crewe to Peak Rail. In April 2015, the collection sold for £627,229 at the auction in Birmingham. [29]
A train song is a song referencing passenger or freight railroads, often using a syncopated beat resembling the sound of train wheels over train tracks.Trains have been a theme in both traditional and popular music since the first half of the 19th century and over the years have appeared in nearly all musical genres, including folk, blues, country, rock, jazz, world, classical and avant-garde.
The second half of the song (starting at 5:41) was transposed to a lower key starting after the first nine shows of the tour. This was done to accommodate Collins' deepening voice without straining. [ citation needed ] (A recording of an early performance of "Driving the Last Spike" was released as an Atlantic Records promo CD featuring the ...
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To work on the railway, the railway, the railway, Oh, poor Paddy works upon the railway. [6] Several versions of this chanty were audio-recorded from the singing of veteran sailors in the 1920s–40s by folklorists like R. W. Gordon, J. M. Carpenter, and William Main Doerflinger. Captain Mark Page, whose sea experience spanned 1849–1879, sang ...
Night Mail, also known as Concerto or Britain's Railway, was a 1988 British advert produced by Ridley Scott Associates and British Transport Films for British Rail.It was based on the 1936 documentary of the same name, and used the first stanza of a poem by W. H. Auden that was written for the film.
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