Let The River Run, Gordano Gorgeous Chorus & Gurt Lush Choir, Colston Hall, 4th July 2015

Gordano Gorgeous Chorus & Gurt Lush Choir sing Wendy Sergeant’s arrangement of Carly Simon’s “Let The River Run” as part of the ‘Best of the West Concert’ at The Colston Hall, Bristol.

Featured in the soundtrack of the 1988 film ‘Working Girl’
Simon has stated that she found inspiration for the lyrics by first reading the original script, and then the poems of Walt Whitman. Musically, she wanted to write a hymn to New York with a contemporary jungle beat under it, so as to juxtapose those opposites in a compelling way. The phrases “Silver Cities Rise” and “The New Jerusalem” seem to have taken on a new meaning for many people, but the song was not originally composed with any particular political and/or religious overtones, although you may recognize allusions to William Blake and 19th-century English history.

M.D. Wendy Sergeant
Sound recording, Jimmy Tuffrey.
Camera crew, Charlie Marshall, Ben Platts, John Kavanagh
Video editing & production, Charlie Marshall.