MUSIC... Listen to more music by Jack Gibbons "Echo" "Music Box" "Sarabande" Watch Jack Gibbons performing Scarlatti   WORDS... "Happy at the piano" Gershwin feature "The Myths of Alkan" BBC talk "Fighting Back" Interview with Gibbons AND MORE...	"THE BOURNE" Music by JACK GIBBONS Words by CHRISTINA ROSSETTI Sung by Ann Mackay (soprano) Accompanied by Jack Gibbons (piano) Recorded by Tony Faulkner at Henry Wood Hall, London November 17th 2003                                                                                                                Music copyright Jack Gibbons 2001                                                          Performance copyright Jack Gibbons 2003 picture right: Ann Mackay        Jack Gibbons' song The Bourne is a setting of the poem of Christina Rossetti, the 19th century poet and sister of Pre-Raphaelite painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Jack Gibbons' song setting was completed in the summer of 2001.
	The Bourne words by Christina Rossetti Underneath the growing grass, Underneath the living flowers, Deeper than the sound of showers: There we shall not count the hours By the shadows as they pass. Youth and health will be but vain, Beauty reckoned of no worth: There a very little girth Can hold round what once the earth Seemed too narrow to contain. Christina Rossetti with her mother (photo Lewis Carroll)
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