Judy Collins sings "Since You've Asked," the first of many songs she has written. The performance, taped at Avery Fisher Hall in New York City in 1989, was a benefit for the Lauri Strauss Leukemia Foundation.
Agreed. I actually never heard her sing it until now but I _really_ don’t like her piano work. It’s like she’s playing two different songs. Dan’s seems more focused and his voice rises and falls with the intensity of the words. She is flat, almost reading a verse from a poem. (Not musically flat, expression flat.)
@@joekrepps Know what you mean about the piano arrangement, but she tries to conjur an otherworldy, ethereal feel and does just that -same as Jimmy Webb on his own compositions...It often took another artist to popularise these songs although Dan is not particularly associated with this one.
A most beautiful song----when I first heard "Since You've Asked" in the sixties, it became almost a spiritual to me. The whole "Wildflowers" album became that.
Brilliant. Dan Fogelberg's cover on the , "Twin Sons of Different Mothers" album has always been a favorite, but there's nothing quite like hearing a composer's solo performance...
Some one mentioned Ravel. Considering the time the accompaniment is truly impressionistic. I want to feel it is all her's. So beautiful, haunting. As though she feels the yearning I've felt in attempting to explain to a loved one how I felt. How did she know?
That rhythmic phrasing under "Take the roads that I have walked", in this arrangement that she grew into, also has a Sondheim writing theme type of feel. Obviously she spent time with his material over the years and I always wondered if her arrangement of her own song morphed and evolved after spending time with his music? And, to your point, maybe Sondheim's own music was inspired by Ravel? Sondheim certainly uses that musical phrase in quite a few of his shows over the years.
Sondheim is a musical genius who has assimilated the entire Classical Compositional Canon from English Renaissance, Johann Strauss waltz parodies, Charles Ives, Ravel, Debussy, Nadia Boulanger, Gershwin, Barber, Copeland, Virgil Thomson, Luciano Berio, to Alban Berg. @@justdolphy2814
I am attending her concert at the Coach House in San Juan Capistrano tonight. Sold Out 800 patrons. She does not look well but I am grateful for an opportunity to watch her perform in person. She is an angel incarnate ❤
Truth hate ate everybody.. Jennifer needs to be Barbara Carly and even Judy Collins never have I known such pirating spirit of greed within these people
