King's Sisters ... Saturday, October 22, 1988
Abstract
"As a nation of immigrants, the United States has been blessed with an extraordinarily rich body of folk music. One significant stream of folk resources, the songs and dances of early settlers from the British Isles, was cultivated in rural America as a mode of group identity through an oral tradition for several hundred years. The simple eloquence of such melodies has fascinated composers in the high culture since the last days of the nineteenth century, when the opportunity to create a fine-art music from American musical materials was first recognized. This collection of American folksongs, arranged in 1987 and first performed by the King's Singers in January 1988, includes universal favorites as well as less well-known examples in the Anglo-American repertory."--Program Notes.
Table of Contents
I. Simple Gifts: Tradional American Folksongs Arranged by Robert Chilcott -- The Golden Vanity -- The Lazy Man -- Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair -- I Bought Me a Cat -- The Gift to Be Simple -- II. A madrigal History Tour -- Amor vittorioso -- Fatal le porte -- Tan ta ra cries Mars -- Ich hab' dich Lieb -- Las il n'a nul mal -- Il Gioco di primiera -- III. House of Winter -- Intermission -- IV. My Spirit Sang All Day: Part Songs by British Composers of the Early Twentieth Century -- My Spirit Sang All Day -- Sweet Day So Cool -- Music When Soft Voices Die -- There Comes a New Moon -- To a Lady Seen from the Train -- Deep in My Soul -- V. Arrangements in Close Harmony