 | Christine Hanson - The Cremation Of Sam McGee
yySM1205
(2005) 12 tracks
Music and concept by cellist and composer Christine Hanson - a setting of Robert Service's poem The Cremation Of Sam McGee.
A 2005 Celtic Connections New Voices commission, featuring Christine (cello), Michael Marra (narration), Rick Taylor (trombone), Kevin Murray (guitar, mandolin), Bruce MacGregor and Aidan O'Rourke (fiddle), Kevin McGuire (bass), Brian McAlpine (piano, accordion) and James MacKintosh (percussion).
"A brilliantly atmospheric travelogue in music, words and pictures, Christine Hanson’s Sam McGee presentation celebrates both the Scottish birthplace of Yukon poet Robert W Service and his greatest creation, the irascible, ill-fated and fascinating Sam McGee."
"Marra, with his deep, sonorous voice, narrates the story, an amiable piece about a goldpanner from Tennessee who meets his end in the frozen wastes of the Yukon."
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