American Choral Music
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American Choral Music
University of Texas Chamber Singers / James Morrow
[ Naxos American Classics / CD ]
Release Date: Sunday 1 August 2010
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American choral music has many faces and, while aware of tradition, often looks resolutely towards the future. Vincent Persichetti's Mass envelops an original cantus firmus in a shimmering silken garment of ever-shifting harmonies, while Lukas Foss provides a lyre-like accompaniment for his lean, sometimes athletic, settings of three Psalms. Irving Fine sets poems by Shakespeare's contemporary Ben Jonson (The Hour-Glass), William Schuman draws on texts by Walt Whitman for his Carols of Death, while William Bolcom uses African- American poems as the basis for a wide-ranging song cycle, The Mask.
Tracks:
Persichetti, Vincent
Mass, Op. 84
Schuman, William
Carols of Death
Bolcom, William
The Mask
Fine, Irving
The Hour-Glass
Foss, Lukas
Psalms
