"Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming / In the Bleak Midwinter" [Gustav Holst, arr. Mike Wilkins]

"Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming / In the Bleak Midwinter" [Gustav Holst, arr. Mike Wilkins]

Holst, Gustav; music (English, 1874-1934)

Wilkins, Mike; arrangement

2013 pre [composition]

genre: Christmas music|instrumental|song|carol|sacred music

instrumentation: guitar

male composer|male arranger

Rossetti poem(s): "A Christmas Carol" ("In the bleak mid-winter")

Composition history: "I combined these two traditional carols into a single arrangement (just one verse each, to accommodate 21st century attention spans) in DADGBD tuning."

Performance history: Performance by the arranger published on YouTube Dec 17, 2013. In the video description, Wilkins indicates that his guitar is "a Soloway Single 15" Gosling played through a Carr Rambler" (Wilkins). View the performance here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INL-pQ9ah1o.

Notes: This score is an arrangement of Gustav Holst's 1906 setting.

Format 1: performance video

running time 2 minutes and 3 seconds

Other data reference(s): Wilkins, Mike. "Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming / In the Bleak Midwinter." Youtube, uploaded 17 December 2013, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INL-pQ9ah1o.

Cataloguer: Emily McConkey, University of Ottawa

Record: CRM-christmascarolinthebleak-holst-wilkins

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