Cyngerdd Gala Llangollen


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-2016 marks the 70th anniversary...

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-..of the Llangollen International

-Musical Eisteddfod.

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-The years have flown by,

-and tonight we are really galloping.

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-The William Tell Overture

-opens our concert here tonight.

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-The International Pavilion is a

-special stage for our first soloist.

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-The baritone from Pant Glas

-is happy to be back here this year.

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-A solo about the magnificence

-and richness of Heavenly light...

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-..from Das Rheingold,

-one in a ring of operas by Wagner.

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-Tenor Joseph Calleja

-hails from the island of Malta.

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-He's made a real impression

-on the opera stages of the world.

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-Over the years, he has built up

-quite a friendship with Bryn Terfel.

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-The tragic clown from the opera

-I Pagliacci performs...

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-..despite the tears

-and the heartbreak.

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-More from this musical feast

-after a short break.

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-Eilir Owen Griffiths, the Musical

-Director of the Eisteddfod...

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-..has composed a new work

-for the celebrations.

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-This is Fanfare for Peace.

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-How does it feel

-to be back at Llangollen?

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-You must feel

-very comfortable here.

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-Amazing.

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-Two years ago, I was performing

-in Sondheim's Sweeney Todd...

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-..a very different piece.

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-It was a frightening idea

-of a concert...

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-..to put on such a show on

-over two days.

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-Today is a bit easier.

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-It's a concert

-of about two and a half hours.

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-What's the connection...

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-..between you and the Maltese

-tenor, Joseph Calleja.

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-He came to the Faenol

-early in his career.

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-It was our second year

-at the Faenol.

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-I was then invited

-to his amazing concert in Malta.

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-We have sung together many times

-on the opera stages of the world.

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-The tenor, Faust, and the baritone

-Mephistopheles, the devil himself.

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-These two friends are delighted to

-be singing together in Llangollen.

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-Applause also for Sinfonia Cymru,

-conducted by Gareth Jones.

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-More classics will follow

-after the break.

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-What a face, and what a voice!

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-Bryn Terfel singing

-the Golden Calf solo from Faust...

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-..thrilling the audience here

-at the International Pavilion.

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-We now welcome back the tenor,

-Joseph Calleja...

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-..singing Why Do You Wake Me?

-by Massenet.

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-I'm backstage for a quick word with

-the Maltese tenor, Joseph Calleja.

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-Welcome to Wales.

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-Is it good to be back here?

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-It's always good

-to come back to Wales.

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-I have many memories which go back

-quite a number of years.

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-Actually back 20 years

-to when I was eighteen.

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-It's a beautiful country,

-the weather has been cooperating...

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-..so looking forward to the night.

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-What were you doing here

-when you were eighteen?

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-Auditioning for Cardiff

-Singer of the World...

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-..and the Welsh National Opera.

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-Your relationship with Bryn Terfel

-also goes back a few years.

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-Yes, it's a platonic marriage

-made in heaven.

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-Beautiful.

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-Surely there isn't a finer duet,

-the Pearl Fishers' Duet by Bizet.

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-Bryn Terfel and Joseph Calleja

-certainly had the audience hooked...

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-..and they now receive

-the applause.

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-Eirlys Myfanwy Davies, you have fond

-memories of the Llangollen stage.

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-Yes, very fond memories.

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-I have competed here

-for many years...

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-..and I'm back this year

-for the big gala concert.

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-It's because you won a special

-competition here two years ago.

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-Yes, the 2014 Voice of the Future.

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-I was invited to sing

-at this year's gala concert.

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-It's a privilege and a huge honour.

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-Eirlys Myfanwy Davies...

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-..with the romantic solo, My Heart

-Opens Itself to Your Voice...

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-..from the opera,

-Samson and Delilah.

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-Cavalleria Rusticana is well-known

-as one of a pair of operas Cav/Pag.

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-These days, they're almost always

-performed together.

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-The Sinfonia Cymru orchestra,

-conducted by Gareth Jones...

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-..will now perform the famous

-Intermezzo from this work.

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-The famous Intermezzo

-from Cavalleria Rusticana.

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-Tenor Joseph Calleja

-is warmly welcomed back...

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-..who will now sing

-Federico's Lament by Cilea.

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-A smile after the lament.

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-The Maltese tenor is obviously

-a favourite here in Wales.

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-We still have more musical

-favourites coming your way.

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-Bryn Terfel has managed to bridge

-the gap between opera and musicals.

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-From his popular performances

-of Rodgers and Hammerstein songs...

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-..to his thrilling interpretation

-of Sweeney Todd...

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-..and more recently,

-Tevye from Fiddler on the Roof.

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-Today, I am a horse.

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-Dear God.

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-Did you have to make my poor

-old horse lose his shoes...

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-..just before the Sabbath?

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-That wasn't very nice.

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-It's enough you pick on me.

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-Bless me with five daughters,

-a life of poverty.

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-But what have you got

-against my horse?

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-Sometimes I think...

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-..when it's too quiet up there...

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-..you say to yourself...

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-can I play on my friend, Tevye?"

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-Dear God, you made many,

-many, many many rich people.

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-I realize, of course,

-it's no shame to be poor.

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-But it's no great honour either!

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-So, what would have been

-so terrible...

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-..if I had a small fortune?

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-# If I were a rich man

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-# Ya ha deedle deedle,

-bubba bubba deedle deedle dum

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-# All day long I'd biddy biddy bum

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-# If I were a wealthy man

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-# I wouldn't have to work hard

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-# Ya ha deedle deedle,

-bubba bubba deedle deedle dum

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-# If I were a biddy biddy rich

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-# Idle-diddle-didle-didle man

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-# I'd build a big tall house

-with rooms by the dozen

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-# Right in the middle of the town

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-# A fine tin roof

-with real wooden floors below

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-# There would be one long staircase

-just going up

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-# And one even longer coming down

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-# And one more going nowhere,

-just for show

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-# I'd fill my yard with chicks

-and turkeys and geese and ducks

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-# For the town to see and hear

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-# Squawking just as noisily

-as they can

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-# And each loud "squawk"

-"honk" "quack"

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-# Would land like a trumpet

-on the ear

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-# As if to say

-"Here lives a wealthy man"

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-# If I were a rich man

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-# Ya ha deedle deedle,

-bubba bubba deedle deedle dum

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-# All day long I'd biddy biddy bum

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-# If I were a wealthy man

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-# I wouldn't have to work hard

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-# Ya ha deedle deedle,

-bubba bubba deedle deedle dum

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-# If I were a biddy biddy rich

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-# Idle-diddle-didle-didle man

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-# I'd see my wife, my Golde,

-looking like a rich man's wife

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-# With a proper double chin

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-# Supervising meals

-to her heart's content

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-# I'd see her putting on airs

-and strutting like a peacock

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-# Oy, what a happy mood she's in

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-# Screaming at the servants,

-day and night

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-# The most important men in town

-would come and fawn on me!

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-# They will ask me to advise them

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-# Like a Solomon the Wise

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-# "If you please, Reb Tevye..."

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-# "Pardon me, Reb Tevye..."

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-# Posing problems

-that would cross a rabbi's eyes!

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-# Bye bye, bye, bye,

-bye bye, bye, bye, bye

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-# And it won't make

-one bit of difference

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-# If I answer right or wrong

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-# When you're rich,

-they think you really know!

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-# If I were rich,

-I'd have the time that I lack

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-# To sit in the synagogue and pray

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-# Maybe have a seat

-by the Eastern wall

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-# And I'd discuss the holy books

-with the learned men

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-# Seven hours every day

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-# This would be

-the sweetest thing of all

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-# If I were a rich man

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-# Ya ha deedle deedle,

-bubba bubba deedle deedle dum

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-# All day long I'd biddy biddy bum

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-# If I were a wealthy man

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-# I wouldn't have to work hard

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-# Ya ha deedle deedle,

-bubba bubba deedle deedle dum

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-# Lord who made the lion

-and the lamb

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-# You decreed I should be what I am

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-# Would it spoil

-some vast eternal plan?

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-# If I were a wealthy man #

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-A little dance off the stage

-as the fiddler raises the roof.

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-The first Musical Director

-of the Llangollen Eisteddfod...

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-..was W S Gwynn Williams.

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-Our soloists this evening...

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-..will pay homage to this local

-musician, publisher and composer...

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-..who was so prominent

-in establishing the Eisteddfod.

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-# I am dreaming of the mountains

-of my home

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-# Of the mountains

-where in childhood I would roam

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-# I have dwelt 'neath southern skies

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-# Where the summer never dies

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-# But my heart

-is in the mountains of my home

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-# I can see the little

-homestead on the hill

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-# I can hear the magic music

-of the Rhyl

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-# There is nothing to compare

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-# With the love that once was there

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-# In that lonely little homestead

-on the hill

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-# I can see the quiet churchyard

-down below

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-# Where the mountain breezes

-wander to and fro

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-# And when God my soul will keep

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-# It is there I want to sleep

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-# With those dear old folks

-that loved me long ago #

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-There are seven decades

-of history here.

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-Tonight, you are paying homage

-to W S Gwynn Williams...

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-..who was so key

-in establishing this festival.

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-Joe is going to sing

-Little Welsh Home...

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-..and I will sing Tosturi Duw.

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-The last time I sang it was

-at the annual local eisteddfod...

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-..in the early 1970s.

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-I hope I can remember

-all the words.

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-# Mae ehangder yn ei dostur

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-# Fel ehangder mawr y mor

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-# Mae tiriondeb at bechadur

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-# Yng nghyfiawnder Arglwydd Ior

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-# Nid oes man lle teimlir galar

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-# Fel yn nefoedd Duw ei hun

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-# Nid oes lle i fethiant daear

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-# Fel yn nefoedd Duw ei hun

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-Wrong line.

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-# Dyma ras i fil o fydoedd

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-# Cymaint a'n bydysawd ni

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-# Dyma ddigon yn oes-oesoedd

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-# I'r preswylwyr penna'u bri

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-# Cans mae cariad Duw'n helaethach

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-# Na mesurau meddwl dyn

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-# Ac mae calon yr Anfeidrol

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-# Yn rhyfeddod nef ei hun

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-# Ond cyfyngir ar ei gariad

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-# Gan derfynau ofer dyn

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-# A mawrygir ei fanylrwydd

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-# Gydag aidd nis mynn Ei hun

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-# Pe bai'n cariad ninnau'n symlach

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-# Digon fyddai'i air i ddyn

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-# Byddai bywyd oll yn heulwen

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-# Ym melyster Duw ei hun

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-# Ym melyster Duw ei hun #

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-O Sole Mio.

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-Bryn Terfel's good friend, Joseph

-Calleja, is smiling broadly.

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-When do the two of you

-get to work together?

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-We have a lot of fun on stage.

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-Joe loves pulling your leg.

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-We shall see what happens

-on stage today.

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-# Anything you can do,

-I can do better

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-# I can do anything better than you

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-# No, you can't

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-# No, you can't

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-# Yes, I can

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-# No, you can't

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-# No, you can't

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-# Yes, I can

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-# No, you can't

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-# No, you can't

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-# Yes, I can, yes, I can

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-# Anything you can be

-I can be greater

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-# Sooner or later,

-I'm greater than you

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-# No, you're not

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-# No, you're not

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-# Yes, I am

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-# No, you're not

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-# No, you're not

-

-# Yes, I am

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-# No, you're not

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-# No, you're not

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-# Yes, I am, yes, I am

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-# I can shoot a partridge

-with a single cartridge

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-# I can get a sparrow

-with a bow and arrow

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-# I can live on bread and cheese

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-And only on that?

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-And only on that?

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-# Yes!

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-So can a rat.

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-# Anything you can sing,

-I can sing higher

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-# I can sing any note

-higher than you

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-# No, you can't

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-# No, you can't

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-# Yes, I can

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-# No, you can't

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-# No, you can't

-

-# Yes, I can

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-# No, you can't

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-# No, you can't

-

-# Yes, I can

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-# No, you can't, ha, ha, ha

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-# Yes, I can

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-# Yes, he can

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-# Anything you can wear,

-I can wear better

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-# In what you wear,

-I'd look better than you

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-# In my coat

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-# In my coat

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-# In your vest

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-# In my shoes

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-# In my shoes

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-# In your hat

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-# No, you can't

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-# No, you can't

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-# Yes, I can, yes, I can

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-# Any note you can hold,

-I can hold longer

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-# I can sing any note

-longer than you

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-# No, you can't

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-# No, you can't

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-# Yes, I can

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-# No, you can't

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-# No, you can't

-

-# Yes, I can

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-# No, you can't

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-# No, you can't

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-# Yes, I can

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-# Yes, I can

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-# Yes, you can

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-# Any note you can sing,

-I can sing sweeter

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-# I can sing any note

-sweeter than you

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-# No, you can't

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-# Yes, I can

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-# No, you can't

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-# Yes, I can

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-# No, you can't

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-# No, you can't

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-# Yes, I can

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-# No, you can't

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-# No, you can't

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-# Yes, I can

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-# No, you can't, can't, can't

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-# Yes, I can, can, can

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-# No, you can't #

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-# No, you can't #

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-# Yes, I can #

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-Bryn Terfel and Joseph Calleja...

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-..proving that they're both

-as good as each other.

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-It has been an unforgettable

-night here in Llangollen...

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-..a real night of celebration.

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-The tenor and baritone have no

-immediate plans to leave the stage.

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-A passionate rendition of Granada

-brings tonight's concert to a close.

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-What a concert!

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-Bryn Terfel, Joseph Calleja...

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-..Sinfonia Cymru,

-conducted by Gareth Jones...

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-..not forgetting the mezzo-soprano,

-Eirlys Myfanwy Davies.

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-The audience here tonight

-has been absolutely thrilled.

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-From the International Pavilion in

-Llangollen, it's goodnight from us.

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