Bridget Bolliger plays with Vladimir Gorbach in “Stones" for Flute and Guitar by Jim Coyle. скачать в хорошем качестве

Bridget Bolliger plays with Vladimir Gorbach in “Stones" for Flute and Guitar by Jim Coyle.

Sydney Chamber Music Festival 2023 "Stones" for flute and guitar by Jim Coyle Commissioned by the SCMF 2023 Bridget Bolliger, flute Vladimir Gorbach, guitar Flute and guitar. 3 movements. John Chubb Two Tars Also a Second William Jim Coyle 2023 Atop a hill overlooking the Tamar estuary in Cornwall, stands the Church of Saint Mary and Saint Julian, Maker. Twenty-two of the gravestones in its churchyard are listed monuments and contain deeply personal and intimate stories. One is sacred to the memory of John Chubb, a little boy who died by choking on a pebble. The gravestone has inset a facsimile of that pebble and eight lines of verse in a naive, vernacular style lamenting little John's passing. Half hidden by brambles against a wall is a double headstone whose inscription begins “Here lies two tars”. It memorialises a middle-aged sailor and his much younger mate. The inference is that the older man took it upon himself to be the young lad’s ‘sea-daddy’ and, quite literally, to show him the ropes. This type of relationship was often essential for happiness and even survival for a boy’s first time at sea. The fact that they are buried together indicates an accidental death as well as a close relationship. The inscription almost seems to beg the Almighty to give these two lovable rogues the benefit of the doubt. At the bottom of John Chubb's headstone are two addenda. These are in memory of two further sons in the Chubb family both of whom died in infancy. The second reads ‘also a second William’. One wonders how much heartbreak the Chubb family could endure; and what comfort they derived from the beauty and permanence of this memorial to their lost sons.