My Choice 39 – André Rieu – Botany Bay This song is for the Aussies – André Rieu plays Botany Bay with the young Australian soprano, Mirusia Louwerse singing. Video by Alfred Grech, Mosta, Malta. © jasalf5959 – 2009 Please also search for our other Youtube Channel jasalf5959 ———————————– Botany Bay Botany Bay is a bay in Sydney, New South Wales, a few kilometres south of the Sydney central business district. The Cooks River and the Georges River are the two major tributaries that flow into the bay. Two runways of Sydney Airport extend into the bay. On 29 April 1770, Botany Bay was the site of James Cook’s first landing of HMS Endeavour on the continent of Australia, after his extensive navigation of New Zealand. Later the British planned Botany Bay as the site for a penal colony. Out of these plans came the first European habitation of Australia at Sydney Cove. —————————— LYRICS: Farewell to old England forever, Farewell to my rum culls as well, Farewell to the well-known Old Bailey Where I once used to look such a swell. Chorus: Singing too-ral, li-ooral, li-addity, Singing too-ral, li-ooral, li-ay, Singing too-ral, li-ooral, li-addity, Oh we’re bound for Botany Bay. There’s the captain as is our commander, There’s the bosun and all the ship’s crew, There’s the first- and the second-class passengers, Knows what we poor convicts go through. Oh had I the wings of a turtle-dove, I’d soar on my pinions so high, Slap bang to the arms …

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Sound is vibration, the physical movement of energy in the form of waves. Sound touches us, even the softest sounds transcend through space, moving air. Every breath we take is physically altering our environment. It is this concept, the nature of our interconnectedness with our environment, that is the driving force behind Cat’s artistic practice. Her research aims to explore the physical qualities of sound and its influence on pattern and formation in the environment as well as how sound affects us, emotionally, perceptually and physically. Audio Botany [2009 ©] is an ongoing project investigating the effect of sound on growing plants funded by Dundee Visual Arts Awards Scheme. After exploring the affects of sound on the movement of water the Sonorous Form it became clear that sound must affect us physically, as our bodies consist of over 70% water. Since then Cat has been growing sunflower seeds under a variety of different sine waves within the human hearing range. Each set of three plants is grown indoors under a fixed light source and temperature, with a constant sine wave of a fixed frequency sounding from underneath the plant. Each frequency is tested a number of times to reduce the occurance of anomelies. Cat is currently testing the frequencies 50 Hz, 250 Hz 1250Hz 6250Hz & 15 000Hz. It is too early to suggest any definate trends but so far plants grown under 250Hz seem to grow slightly faster than the others. Cat is currently seeking further funding to expand …

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Botany

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Silver Birch, Canoes and Conifers

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PBS – The Botany of Desire www.pbs.org www.pbs.org PDF: www.pbs.org

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Botany Bay is in Sydney, NSW, Australia. Botany Bay was where Captain James Cook landed when he reached Australia in April 1770. The area was a British penal colony for years. Now there is a beautiful reserve there and lots of bush trails. It makes for a very lovely day trip if you are visiting Sydney.

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Botany Bay is a song from the musical burlesque, Little Jack Sheppard, a comedy staged in London, England in 1885 and Melbourne, Australia in 1886. The show was written by Henry Pottinger Stephens and William Yardley, though the music for “Botany Bay” was written by Florian Pascal a pseudonym for Joseph Williams, Jr. (1847-1923), a music publisher and composer. It has become an adopted Australian song with its story of how convicts were transported in unpleasant circumstances to say the least to the penal colonies in that country and in particular, Botany Bay itself.

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Botany Bay: Farewell to Old England forever Farewell to my old culls as well Farewell to the well known Old Bailey Where I once used to be such a swell Where I once used to be such a swell. Chorus Singing, too-ral, li-ooral, li-addity, Singing, too-ral, li-ooral, li-ay. Singing, too-ral, li-ooral, li-addity, Singing, too-ral, li-ooral, li-ay. There’s the captain as is our commandeer, There’s bo’sun and all the ship’s crew There’s first and the second class passengers, Knows what we poor convicts goes through Knows what we poor convicts goes through. ‘Tain’t leaving Old England we cares about, ‘Tain’t ‘cos we mispells wot we knows, But becos all we light finger’d gentry Hop’s around with a log on our toes. Hop’s around with a log on our toes. For fourteen long years I have ser-vi-ed, And for fourteen long years and a day, For meeting a bloke in the area, And sneaking his ticker away. And sneaking his ticker away. Oh had I the wings of a turtle-dove, I’d soar on my pinions so high, Slap bang to the arms of my Polly love, And in her sweet presence I’d die And in her sweet presence I’d die. Now all my young Dook-ies and Duch-ess-es, Take warning from what I’ve to say: Mind all is your own as you touch-es-es, Or you’ll find us in Botany Bay, Or you’ll find us in Botany Bay.

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Unison Dance Crew @ Botany Hip Hop Work For Charity Event 2009 Big Upps To These Dudes :]

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