Always singing / Dale Warland; text by Fred Mitchell, paraphrased by the composer (2:42) -- Chanson éloignée / Morten Lauridsen; text by Rainer Maria Rilke (5:20) -- O Love, be fed with apples while you may / Lauridsen; text by Robert Graves (2:10) -- Love, thricewise. Liquor and lacquer (1:28) ; An amethyst remembrance (2:24) ; Kinsfolk (1:50) / Joseph Gregorio; texts by Witter Bynner, Emily Dickinson, and Sidney Lanier -- Pentecost / Michael Rickelton; text by Dana Gioia (6:12) -- Snow (the king's trumpeter) (5:02) ; When all is done (9:28) / John Muehleisen; text of 2nd work by Paul Laurence Dunbar -- The bluebird / Norman Dello Joio; text by Joseph Machlis (4:41) -- Two river nocturnes. Prairie waters by night (5:44) ; River moons (7:00) / Muehleisen; texts by Carl Sandburg -- Little birds (3:26) ; Water night (4:31) / Eric Whitacre; texts by Octavio Paz -- Fire! / John Orfe; text by Langston Hughes (5:28) -- Song of the open road / Dello Joio; text adapted from Walt Whitman (8:40).
Note
Choral music, primarily unaccompanied ; tracks 3, 10, 13 with piano ; tracks 8-9, 15 with trumpet ; track 16 with trumpet and piano.
Credits (note)
Ted Ancona, recording engineer ; Matthew Snyder, editing, mixing and mastering ; Brian Sullivan and Ryan McSweeney, associate producers ; Richard Messenger, producer ; Carol Rosenberger, executive producer.
Language (note)
Sung primarily in English ; track 2 sung in French ; track 13 sung in Spanish.
Title
American voices.
Publisher
Sonoma, CA : Delos Productions, [2014]
Copyright date
℗2014
Playing time
011711
Type of content
performed music
Type of medium
computer
Type of carrier
online resource
Digital file characteristics
audio file
Performer
Maria Cristina Navarro, soprano (track 15) ; Aram Barsamian, baritone (track 2) ; Carver Cossey, bass (track 15) ; Barry Perkins, trumpet (tracks 8-9, 15-16) ; David Clemensen, piano (tracks 3, 10, 13, 16) ; John Alexander Singers ; John Alexander, conductor.
Credits
Ted Ancona, recording engineer ; Matthew Snyder, editing, mixing and mastering ; Brian Sullivan and Ryan McSweeney, associate producers ; Richard Messenger, producer ; Carol Rosenberger, executive producer.
Event
Recorded 2012 March 13-14, 18, Meng Concert Hall, Clayes Performing Arts Center, California State University, Fullerton.
Language
Sung primarily in English ; track 2 sung in French ; track 13 sung in Spanish.