Spring 2010 Writings


ABRAHAM LINCOLN PORTRAITS:
IVES Lincoln, the Great Commoner. PERSICHETTI A Lincoln Address. HARRIS Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight. BACON Ford’s Theatre. GOULD Lincoln Legend. McKAY To a Liberator. TUROK Variations on an American Song. COPLAND A Lincoln Portrait • NAXOS 8.559373-74 (2CDs) Leonard Slatkin conducts Nashville SO and Ch. Read the CD review.

MORAN There Appeared an Angel. Cortege. Elegy for a Young King. Mantra. Obrigado. Stirling: It’s Raining Cats and Dogs. KBOCO. Processional • Alexander Hermann, cond; Chrismos Vocal Ens; Grassauer Wind Ens; Robert Ridgell (org); Latvian Radio Ch; Dan Moore, cond; Iowa Perc • INNOVA 714. Read the CD review.

SCHUMAN New England Triptych. American Hymn. George Washington Bridge. Circus Overture (trans. D. Owen). Prelude for a Great Occasion • KLAVIER K-11155. Jack Stamp conducts Keystone Wind Ens. Read the CD review.

BOOK REVIEW: THE GREAT AMERICAN SYMPHONY: Music, the Depression, and War. By Nicholas Tawa. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2009. Read the book review.

TOUCH: The Toccata Project • Philip Amalong (pn) PERSICHETTI, MENOTTI, HOIBY, DIEMER, HARRIS, ANTHEIL, ROREM, I. FINE, SOWERBY, L. LIEBERMANN, LEES, M. L. LEHMAN, MUCZYNSKI, R. LEWENTHAL, RIEGGER, BASTIEN. ALBANY TROY1142. Read the CD review.

Picks of the Year-2009 Read the article.

HOIBY The Tempest • Purchase College Performance. ALBANY TROY-1106/1107 (2 CDs); A Pocket of Time (21 Songs and a Duet) Julia Faulkner (Sop), Andrew Garland (bar) and Lee Hoiby (pn) • NAXOS 8.559375; Songs of Lee Hoiby • Ursula Kleinecke-Boyer (sop), Maria Perez-Goodman (pn) • ALBANY TROY-1102. Read the CD review.