Sandra Boynton
Sandra Boynton
I’m reviewing this here as “music”, but it’s a delightful confection for the over-educated (I suppose). This work was released with there was a spate of recordings of Gregorian chants. In Grunt, Boynton gives the listener, and reader a very humorous play on chants in the Latin language. Because how can a playful mind not go from “Latin” to “Pig Latin”?
In the dulcet tones of choirs practiced in Gregorian chants, we are given a musical setting of the activities of one day on a farm – Old MacDonald, in fact. And everyone “speaks” in Latin. Except, of course, the pigs. Because they speak in, yes, Pig Latin. The text playfully has fun with onomatopoeic sounds, such as having the ducks asking “Quaqua, quaqua” (for “anyway”). There are plenty of other English/Latin jokes thrown in to find. The booklet that the CD comes with has both the Latin and the English texts, so you can enjoy the fun.
It’s educated and silly. And well done.
