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Society of Composers, Inc.
"Songfest"
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Cover
Design : Gerald Warfield & Richard Brooks
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Track
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| Robert newell | ||||
| 1. | New London Street Cries (5:12) | |||
| Canta-Sonare | ||||
| Robert Newell, conductor | ||||
| William Penn | ||||
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| Robert Maher, baritone | ||||
| Steven Eldridge, piano | ||||
| Susan Hurley | ||||
| Wind River Songs (10:42) | ||||
| 3. | Wind | |||
| 4. | River | |||
| 5. | Song | |||
| Nicole Philibosian, soprano | ||||
| Crispin Campbell, cell | ||||
| Michael Coonrod, piano | ||||
| Elizabeth Scheidel-Austin | ||||
| Five Sonnets from the Portuguese (11:00) | ||||
| 6. | Sonnet VII | |||
| 7. | Sonnet XXI | |||
| 8. | Sonnet III | |||
| 9. | Sonnet XXXVIII | |||
| 10. | Sonnet XLIII | |||
| Melinda Liebermann, soprano | ||||
| Cornelius Witthoeft, piano | ||||
| Alan Schmitz | ||||
| Four Songs from "Green Lotus Man" (8:20) | ||||
| 11. | Summer Day in the Mountains | |||
| 12. | Water Chestnut Girls | |||
| 13. | White Hair, Deep Mirror | |||
| 14. | A Friendship | |||
| The Trio Santa Fe: | ||||
| Donna McRae, soprano | ||||
| Frank Bowen, flute | ||||
| Rita Angel, piano | ||||
| Mary Jeanne van Appledorn | ||||
| 15. | Freedom of Youth (11:00) | |||
| Lori Berg, reader | ||||
| Mary Jeanne van Appledorn, Yamaha DX7 synthesizer |
All Recordings by the
Society of Composers, Inc.
Mélange CPS-8755 Mood Shifts CPS-8748 Soundscapes CPS-8741 Cornucopia CPS-8725 Sonic Images CPS-8712 Milestones CPS-8701 Inspirations CPS-8690 Cultivated Choruses CPS-8674 Inner Visions CPS-8670 Connections CPS-8660 Transcendencies CPS-8656 Chamber Works CPS-8651 Illuminations CPS-8643 Grand Designs CPS-8639 Intimate Thoughts CPS-8632 Evocations CPS-8631 Extended Resources CPS-8626 Songfest CPS-8618 Contra-Punctus CPS-8615 America Sings! CPS-8613 Potpourri CPS-8609 View from the Keyboard CPS-8606
Related Links
• Society of Composers, Inc.
• Elizabeth Scheidel-Austin @ American Music Center
• Elizabeth Scheidel-Austin @ Abilene Christian University
• Alan Schmitz
Reviews
The Music Connoisseur - Volume 3, Number 1
"Songfest, an anthology of vocal works by Robert Newell, William Penn Susan Hurley, Elizabeth Scheidel-Austin and Alan Schmitz, plus an oddball piece for reader and synthesizer by Mary Jeanne van Appledorn, is the unsatisfactory result of five studio sessions recording six works, as well as of soloists, far from their mikes, displaying poor diction and not very good singing. Too bad, since some of the lyricism, particularly by Ms. Scheidel-Austin and Mr. Schmitz, is touching..."
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