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Thread #66337   Message #1930041
Posted By: Bob Bolton
08-Jan-07 - 06:46 AM
Thread Name: Obit: Chris Kempster (Jan 24 2004)
Subject: RE: Obit: Chris Kempster (Jan 24 2004)
Errrkk!

Re-reading the text posted of my review, back in June 2006, I realised an incorrect ascription slipped through for the singer of The Water Lily. That second paragraph should read:

There are several of those songs written by Henry Lawson and others with a sensitivity to the women of pioneering Australia: Chris singing his own setting of The Drover's Sweetheart… Priscilla Herdman presenting Chris's tune for Louis Esson's Bush Lullaby… … through to Chris's version of Dorothy Hewitt's words for her husband Merv Lilley The Sailor Home from the Sea. Henry Lawson's troubled life combines with Chris's talent in tune-writing to produce masterpieces like Bertha… (addressed to Henry's daughter) stunningly sung here by Margaret Fagan while her daughter Kate beautifully sings Chris's tune for that enigmatic verse The Water Lily. We have the brilliant refutation of lesser rhymers' carping Do You Think I do not Know? as it was first interpreted by Declan Affley, ... that piercing observation of Darlinghurst Gaol (Keep Step) One Hundred and Three… sung by Len Neary … and that song of acceptance and resignation to fate that Henry wrote only months before his death: On The Night Train… – brilliantly sung by Chloë Roweth.