Songs for a Celebration of Ann

“Touch her soft lips and part”

• This a melody by composer William Walton for the Olivier Film Henry The fifth. He is talking to his troops before the historic battle of Agincourt, urging them to gently kiss their wives/lovers before leaving for the battle ahead.

“I’ll Remember April”

• We met in April of 1960, thanks to Linda and Bruce Miller.

“Evelina”

• Sung by composer Harold Arlen, our favorite composer who could really sing what he had written. Ann & I would re-enact a scene where a wealthy Northern gal is being pursued by a dashing Confederate where he wants her to “Climb off that vine and be mine”.

“It was written in the Stars”

• It’s how fate, had we never reunited in a chance meeting on a Hamilton bus, we probably would have never connected, “What the Stars foretold shall Be”.

“She Was Beautiful”

• Written by Stanley Myers & Cleo Laine

“The Song is ended, but the memory lingers on”

• Written by Irving Berlin