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Mechanical Parlor Organ - Organina Thibouville
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There Was a Child Went Forth: Songs of Nils
There was a Child went Forth - in thirty-nine lines, the poet takes us from evocations of a child's early experiences of nature, town and family life to the precipice, both dreadful and ecstatic, of existential speculation. Three American Songs - Thoreau is, relative to the fame of his prose, little known as a poet, but he has a distinctive voice, short breathed with insistent rhyme schemes. The reiteration of the opening line of O Nature is like a mantra. A Noiseless Patient Spider places the voice in a web of piano figuration. The Shangri-La quality of Rumors from an Aeolian Harp is suggested by the hypnotic six for four rhythm in the piano. March, Hymn and Waltz frames Joyce's poems, "From dewey dreams, my soul arise" (hymn) and "The twilight turns from amethyst" (waltz) with a piano prelude, (march) and postlude. The set evokes parlor music. Czeslaw Milosz wrote these two poems during the height of WWII in Warsaw. In the first one, A Song On the End of the World, the apocalypse is imagined in the penultimate line, which is then repeated. The simplicity of the music in the opening of Recovery is as though one emerged from a shelter to find the world still existent. The five songs of Mother Leads Us are settings of Shaker melodies found in Edward Deming Andrew's The Gift to be Simple. In general I have not altered the melodies with the exception of the remarkable "spelling-out" tune Love and Blessing, which is subject to numerous octave displacements. Vocalise was written for my parents, both musicians, for their thirty-sixth wedding anniversary. They read through it, mom singing and dad playing, after a church service in 1979, the only time I heard it until this recording. Five Songs is a collection, not a cycle, though there are threads of connection between the poems. They are all from the 19th C, when poetry was commonly read, and they all, in their own way, are "bright" poems. The tragic note is not sounded. A Prayer for my Daughter is not only Yeats' meditation on his young child's future but also on his failed courtship of Maude Gonne. This generates a shift in tone so radical that for ten years I could never find a way to continue with the last four stanzas. So I left the poem "rooted in one dear perpetual place." - Nils Vigeland Canadian soprano, Delea Shand, is dedicated to performing and promoting new music. She produces Opera on Tap's contemporary music ensemble, New Brew, and has collaborated, curated, and performed with: Orchestra 2001, Anti-Social Music, Quince Vocal Ensemble, Color Field Ensemble, Tactus, and Manhattan School of Music's Symphony Orchestra and Percussion Ensemble. Delea has performed at several new music venues in New York City including: Symphony Space, Issue Project Room, Galapagos Art Space, City Winery, Gershwin Hotel, Cornelia Street Cafe, Webster Hall, The Tank, and Barbes. She is a proud Banglewood alumni, having been a fellow at the Bang on a Can summer festival at Mass MoCA. A dedicated music educator, Delea teaches private lessons and was a teaching artist with the Metropolitan Opera Guild. She holds a Master's Degree in Contemporary Performance from Manhattan School of Music, where she studied with Lucy Shelton. Nils Vigeland was born in Buffalo, NY in 1950. He studied composition with David Del Tredici and Lukas Foss at Harvard College and Morton Feldman at The University at Buffalo. Since 1978 he has been active in New York City as composer and pianist. He taught at Manhattan School of Music for thirty years, retiring as Chair of the Composition Department in 2013. His music is available on Mode, Lovely Music, Focus, Naxos and Ravello CD releases. With Eberhard Blum and Jan Williams he has recorded the complete works of Morton Feldman for flute, percussion and piano for HAT ART.- Shop: odax
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Gifts of the Spirit
About the Madrigal Choir of Binghamton: Founded in 1978 by Anne Boyer Cotten, and presently conducted by Artistic Director Bruce Borton, the Madrigal Choir of Binghamton is a not-for-profit ensemble dedicated to the art of a cappella choral performance. The group performs music from the medieval period to the present in concerts throughout upstate New York. The choir was one of four ensembles invited to appear for the Showcase for the Statewide Arts Conference of the Alliance of New York State Arts organization held in Ithaca in October 2000. In June of 2001, they were the featured choral ensemble at the Region II convention of the American Guild of Organists where they premiered a work by Alice Parker. In 2007, the choir gave the world premiere performance of Bhajans, a work commissioned from the esteemed UK composer Barry Seaman, who journeyed to Binghamton for the event. The Madrigal Choir of Binghamton collaborates with local musical artists, such as Simple Gifts, the Parlor City Boys' Chorus, Fine Companions, Al Hamme and Friends, the Binghamton Community Orchestra, and the Binghamton High School Steel Drum Band.- Shop: odax
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Selections from Mrs. Gaynors Holiday Social
Seven years ago, actress/singer Christine Jordan was offered a wonderful opportunity to become an integral part of a new program at Deepwells Farm, an historic home in St. James, Long Island, New York Conceived by Christine's good friend, Sal St. George, the program became known as 'Biographies on Stage' and thus began the saga of the Gaynor family. Mrs. Augusta Gaynor was the wife of the former Mayor of New York, William J. Gaynor and the family split their time between Brooklyn and St. James. Set in the parlor of their Greek-revival country home, other actors and actresses portrayed famous people from the era (1905-1919) and were Mrs. Gaynor's guests for tea. The interactive experience became very popular and many enthusiastic audience members returned year after year to view the entire series of programs. It became immediately evident that the musical guests were the most popular, most notably shows which featured George M. Cohan, Irving Berlin, Fanny Brice, Florenz Ziegfeld and Mae West. It was indeed the persona and voice that Christine brought forth as Mrs. Gaynor that brought people back and many requested the songs that she sang to be recorded. That dream finally came to fruition this year and we have the first release of the songs of Mrs. Gaynor. We decided to make it a 'holiday selection' as these shows were the most popular. 'Mother to Child', a song written by Sal evoked the true love of family and was the highlight of Christine's experience as her then 4-month old baby, Jeremy portrayed the youngest son of the Gaynor family, Master Norman Gaynor. Although some of the songs are of present day and have a 'pop' feel, we felt that they captured the spirit of the season and the love of family and friends. We hope you enjoy it and look forward to many more recordings!- Shop: odax
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