Flower of the Month – October 2024
Tuesday 1st October 2024
Flower of the Month
October
“Falling Leaves”
Eliza Flower (1803–1846)
for solo voice and piano
performed by
Margaret Cameron (BBC Singers) – Mezzo
Frances M Lynch – Piano
from “Songs of the Months”
published by A J Novello
December 1834
Find out more about the song and the singers here
In nature the flower of this month is the Marigold which represent grief in some sources and fierce love, passion and creativity in others!
YouTube Recordings of the Songs of the Months will be released online each month throughout 2024.
The composer of each of the 12 songs is Eliza Flower (1803 – 1846), who set poetry provided by her close knit circle of literary friends, mainly women, including her sister Sarah Flower Adams. The result is an eclectic mix of songs which vere from romantic to dramatic harmony and from simple beauty to lively humour.
The short editorial introduction explains that each song appeared throughout 1834 in the Monthly Repository – a publication associated with South Place Chapel where Flower’s life and work was based.
