WHRO Time Machine Video
Tim Morton’s Tidewater: Ellen McCormick
Special | 7m 36sVideo has Closed Captions
Ellen McCormick sings Hugo Wolf’s Elfenlied and the classic Home, Sweet Home.
Soprano Ellen McCormick performs two contrasting works: Hugo Wolf’s playful German song Elfenlied, where a startled elf wakes to night sounds and glowing fireflies, and the once-reverent 19th-century favorite Home, Sweet Home, sung with its original seriousness and warmth.
Problems playing video? | Closed Captioning Feedback
Problems playing video? | Closed Captioning Feedback
WHRO Time Machine Video is a local public television program presented by WHRO Public Media
WHRO Time Machine Video
Tim Morton’s Tidewater: Ellen McCormick
Special | 7m 36sVideo has Closed Captions
Soprano Ellen McCormick performs two contrasting works: Hugo Wolf’s playful German song Elfenlied, where a startled elf wakes to night sounds and glowing fireflies, and the once-reverent 19th-century favorite Home, Sweet Home, sung with its original seriousness and warmth.
Problems playing video? | Closed Captioning Feedback
How to Watch WHRO Time Machine Video
WHRO Time Machine Video is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet, Roku, Samsung Smart TV, and Vizio.
- To Soprano Ellen McCormick, who will sing two songs.
The first is called Elf in Lead by the great German composer, Hugo Wolf Elf song written in 1888.
She'll sing it in German.
The song turns on the fact that in German, the word 11 and the word elf are the same, and the little elf is asleep and he hears someone holler the night Watchman holler elf and he wakes up and he, he's, he's surprised.
He's wake waked up in the middle of the night and he's wandering all around and he sees lights and he, he, they're actually lightning bugs and he thinks there's a marriage ceremony taking place.
It's a curious little elf.
And then at the end, he knocks his head up against the a a wall funny sprightly song by Hugo Wolf.
Ellen's second song will be very familiar to you home, sweet Home.
Today we tend to take home sweet home, kind of out as tongue in cheek, out the side of our mouth, but people didn't, many years ago, it was sung seriously by divas in the 19th century, and Ellen's gonna sing it that way.
The way a Home Sweet Home was sung Ellen McCormick - Nine.
And there's the peace of Sweet, sweet - Ellen McCormick sang songs by Hugo Wolf and Sir Henry Bishop Ruth Winters was the pianist.
Ellen Wolf sing those two songs and others by Brahms Tussi and other composers on a recital Saturday, May 19th at 8:00 PM in the Old Dominion University Arts and Letters auditorium.
Support for PBS provided by:
WHRO Time Machine Video is a local public television program presented by WHRO Public Media