Thursday, September 20, 2012

Oscar Peterson - Hymn to Freedom

6 comments:

Mom said...

Goosebumps.

Dad said...

http://www.leftenglishinnewyork.com/personal/music/hymn_to_freedom.pdf

Luke Murphy said...

Cool. I actually didn't even realize that he wrote the tune, too. It sounds so much like it would just be some standard gospel tune.

Dad said...

it's a beautiful tune. It has a lot of My Wild Irish Rose in it. I don't think the transcription is evidence that he wrote it. Also weird that the transcription is in b-flat, but he plays it in F.

Dad said...

F is much better for that than b-flat.

Mom said...

Oscar Peterson talks here about writing it: http://oscarpeterson.com/musicalmoments/detail.aspx?nid=668