Bright is the Ring of Words, Vaughan Williams - Robin Hendrix

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Robin Hendrix sings Ralph Vaughan Williams' beautiful ode to poets, and the ring of words they create. Michel Prezman accompanies on this performance recorded Oct 2008 in Holland. The poetry is by Robert Louis Stevenson, author of A Child's Garden of Verses, Treasure Island, and so many other great works. The poetry was written while Stevenson was taking a journey across the Cevennes of France, trying to make up his mind whether to marry an American divorcé, or to follow the dictates of his Scottish family, who could not tolerate such a match. Stevenson hired a donkey, and a journey through the French outback, writing his memoires of the trip. The resulting book, Travels with a Donkey, and the wonderful poetry that resulted record his experiences and emotions of the trip, with its reasons and its results. The stars were incredible for him, and each night he was regaled by them. In Bright is the Ring of Words, he sings of the poet (singer) who writes the "songs", and that other swains will sing them long after the poet is dead. The lover lingers and sings the poems, and the maid remembers.

Robin Hendrix is a concert artist, author, and teacher. Her book, How to Sing Like the Great Singers, sets out the means by which the Great Singers of the operatic and concert stage created and maintained their beautiful voices, and describes how a motivated singer can arrive at the same results. The book came about by necessity. After “hitting the wall” in middle age, a common event for natural singers, Robin found it increasingly difficult to rehearse her usual concert repertoire and she went looking for answers. Finding no help from gurus or experts, she set out on her own to find the secrets of a free and easy production of the lyric voice. She found the answers and more. Visit www.robinhendrix.com for details. Robin lives with her husband, composer/pianist Michel Prezman, in Serdinya, a little village in the south of France.