Happy Thanksgiving, tomorrow, to my American friends!
Here, in New Zealand, we don’t have Thanksgiving. It is Springtime! But my family still celebrate it with Turkey and Pumpkin Pie! It’s a vestige of having lived in Massachusetts and North Carolina!
Of course, we don’t kill the turkeys at this time of year, even though there are lots of wild ones about; they’ve all got babies!
Listen to the music HERE.
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Okay, now I know what a turkey drumstick sounds like. This music certainly evokes the turkeys, waddling along, in their determined turkey way. I like the rise in pitch at about 1:10 which makes me think of the babies, following, and the various bell-like sounds remind me of the French word for turkey: “dindon.”
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Thanks. I was starting to think the music was sounding a bit like British Morris Dancing!!
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Who’s British Morris?
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I think it’s a brand of motor car!
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I wrote and directed a little play, once, for the students at a women’s college to perform with the famous Christmas Revels….we had Morris Dancers doing a sword dance around St. George….or was it the Dragon? I don’t recall. But the best music bit was our kazoo band of sopranos and contraltos in harmony, entering in procession to their rendition of “God Bless the Master of this House,” full force with their kazoos.
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Sounds fantastic! There’s a whole mine of stuff that lies in the bottom draw – I have directed “Maistre Pierre Pathelin” (in English) 4 times!
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Those guys jumping around with bells on their legs.
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Oh…I thought it was one guy named Morris, from Britain, who was dancing to turkey music!
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Naaa. I saw your late comment about DIRECTING these people in a show after. Goodness. The leaping and the bells. But I don’t like that Spanish dancing where there’s lots of stomping and tense singing either…Happy Thanksgiving, Cynthia!
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Good chuckles, here, Lisa. I think you are referring to flamenco? I once went to a nightclub in Portugal, very small, dark, and mysterious, where the featured act was a flamenco dancer…..I must have had a little too much sangria because when I went to the ladies room I started to mimic her, just for fun, slipped and sprained my ankle and was for several days unable to join my associates on their tours of the sights….I do still have some souvenir castanets from that trip, but I only use them while seated.
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Oh, and I meant to say, a most happy Thanksgiving to you, too, Lisa! 🙂
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Oh, I was taken to one of those shows and some guys were all tense and stomping around each other and I was wrung out when it was over. No more of that.
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More of a flamingo than a flamenco…
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You got that one right!
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Thanks Bruce, for the Thanksgiving music. Happy Thanksgiving to you!
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Thank you!
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Lovely to learn that you celebrate an American Thanksgiving. So if the turkeys are all wild – where do you get yours? Frozen and brought in from the US? Butterball? Free Range? Organic?
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I stock up during the winter! Usually have three – one for US Thanksgiving, one for Christmas, and one for the mid-winter solstice!
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Your reading is not at all bad, Bruce
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Thank you, Derrick.
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A catchy tune brining to mind visions of the first American Thanksgiving where it was unlikely that turkey was served. So I see a gaggle of gobblers merrily dancing in the background of a joyful feast!
🍁🍂🍗🍷HAPPY THANKSGIVING BRUCE! 🍷🍗🍂🍁
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Thanks! And Happy Thanksgiving to you too, Oscar!
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It was a bittersweet gathering with my aunt’s passing; the funeral is Saturday. Still so much love radiated the dinner table and so much for which to be thankful.
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Sorry to hear of your aunt’s passing – and glad it was such a lovely dinner celebration!
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Thank you, Bruce…I appreciate the sentiment. 💙
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I read and quite enjoyed Cynthia’s poem. And the music you wrote remembering turkeys.
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Thanks. You should read Cynthia’s other poetry. She “experiments” and uses traditional forms – including the ghazal.
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Ghazals too? Now I must find my way to Cynthia’s blog…
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She has been experimenting with ghazals in English – there’s an index to the side of her blog with the different forms indexed.
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