Bright Jeremiah, play for me

tiger tiger tiger for ultimate April (the rabbits rush in tomorrow, bearing muguets pour le premier mai), with my response to a posting on Facebook by John McIntyre yesterday Hail! Bright Jeremiah, hail! fill ev’ry heart! With love of thee and thy celestial art — adapted from Nicholas Brady’s text for Henry Purcell’s “Hail! Bright Cecilia” (Z.328) JMcI’s posting yesterday was a bright performance of a Baroque gem: Uwe Komischke, Trompete und Thorsten Pech, Orgel spielen ein Highlight der barocken Trompeten-Literatur: Henry Purcell Trumpet Tune which you can experience in a YouTube recording here. Fabulous music. Actually by Jeremiah Clarke, though long attributed to Purcell. (“Hail! Bright Cecilia” really is by Purcell.) Ann and I were married to it in Princeton (organ only, at a much more stately tempo, suited to processing down the aisle to the altar), Jacques and I would have been married to it in Palo Alto (if that had been possible before he died; we had plans). So it’s…