Friday, December 6, 2019

A Place To Call Home





A PLACE TO CALL HOME

Recorded at the London Coliseum, 30th October 2019

English National Opera (ENO) is pleased to announce that the single “A Place to Call Home” is released today (6th December 2019).

This astonishing new song by former BBC Young Composer of the Year Alex Woolf will help to raise money in aid of Shelter’s Christmas appeal. Recorded live at the London Coliseum, nearly 2000 Community Singers joined ENO’s brilliant Chorus and Orchestra, as well as opera stars Sir Bryn Terfel, Alice Coote and Lesley Garrett. It was conducted by the ENO’s Martin Fitzpatrick.

Ruth Rikowski was one of the Community Singers.

You can share these links to friends and family to ask them to buy the single, helping it to become the Christmas No.1:





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A PLACE TO CALL HOME

Music and Lyrics by Alex Woolf

Lyrics

I stumbled across
A figure unknown,
Alive but alone, lost in his dreaming.
I stumbled because
That figure alone
He must have known what I was thinking:
That’s no place to call home.

I’ve stumbled before,
And I’ll stumble again.
I wish I’d known then how to give shelter.
I’ll stumble some more,
But I’ll seize the day, then
We’ll see the day when it’s not much to ask for:
A place to call home.

Sure as home is where the heart is
Homelessness is heartless and cruel.
Home…
If the heart is where the home is,
Aren’t we all homeless too?

I stumbled again
On that figure now known,
No longer alone, secure and with shelter.
I stumbled and then
I saw how he’d grown
In a place of his own.

So if home’s where the heart is
Then surely it’s smartest to start helping figures unknown.
Then we’ll all have a place…
A place to call home.
A place to call home.

Posted here by Glenn Rikowski
Glenn Rikowski @ Academia: http://independent.academia.edu/GlennRikowski 
Ruth Rikowski @ Academia: http://lsbu.academia.edu/RuthRikowski