A performance of “The Porch Over the River” and new choreography to “Variations” are scheduled for the next several weeks. The latter, based on edited (for time and content) moments, created by Ashley Thursby-Kern of the Louisville Ballet for Choreographers’ Showcase (we collaborated on the first such showcase in 2015). Jason Steigerwalt (baritone), Marilyn Nije
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Back to the earth again
The Irish poet Æ called Jesse Stuart’s The Man with the Bull-Tongue Plow, from 1934, the greatest collection of American poetry since Leaves of Grass. These five songs premiered ten years ago today, at KMAC Contemporary Museum; and the recordings below (recorded at St. Francis in the Fields, Louisville), sensitively sung by Steven Paul Spears and played
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Thank you to North Star Music for including two songs in their “Modern Music for New Singers” editions: “Orpheus” in the mezzo-soprano vol. 1 book & “The Giver of Stars” in the baritone vol. 1 book. These are robust anthologies (eight, so far, and counting!). (Orpheus was written for the Governor’s School for the Arts
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Wendell Berry’s prophetic words in “The Porch Over the River” describe a pastoral scene which becomes darkly reflective of our human footprint. It’s as though the sounds of the river, frogs, phoebes, and trees are momentarily interrupted by the passing sound of traffic or the distant whine of a jet engine. But our focus returns
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Thank you to NewMusicShelf for including “Like Men and Women” from Songs of Insects and Animals in their new NewMusicShelf Anthology of New Music for Tenor, Volume 1
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