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Kathleen Billingham
fl.1925 -
Great Britain, England
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| K. Billingham |
Kathleen Billingham (fl. 1925), a English pianist and composer from Northampton.
| Source: | Northampton Mercury Northamptonshire, England, 10 Jul 1925 |
Requiem
| Period: | Expressionism |
| Composed in: | 1925 |
| Musical form: | song |
| Text/libretto: | Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894) |
Miss .Kathleen Billingham, the well-known Northampton pianist, has publlished two songs with Messrsi Stainer and Bell Ltd., London. They are Twilight (words by Sara Teasdale) and Requiem (R. L. Stevenson).
| Source: | Northampton Mercury Northamptonshire, England 10 Jul 1925 |
"Requiem" (1925, published 1940), for voice and piano, from Two songs.
The text of "Requiem" by Stevenson:
Requiem
Under the wide and starry sky,
Dig the grave and let me lie.
Glad did I live and gladly die,
And I laid me down with a will.
This be the verse you grave for me:
Here he lies where he longed to be;
Home is the sailor, home from sea,
And the hunter home from the hill.
Requiem
Under the wide and starry sky,
Dig the grave and let me lie.
Glad did I live and gladly die,
And I laid me down with a will.
This be the verse you grave for me:
Here he lies where he longed to be;
Home is the sailor, home from sea,
And the hunter home from the hill.
| R.L. Stevenson (text) |