Soprano Patrice Michaels has been privileged to extend her artistry to an extraordinarily wide range of musical works in her long association with the Chicago-based Çedille Records label. Michaels has nurtured a special affinity for American art song since "early in [her] musical life," spurred on through her exposure to the work of Cole Porter and Stephen Sondheim. Although she has already paid tribute to her one-time compositional mentor, Dominick Argento, on a disc entitled To Be Sung Upon the Water, Michaels gets to ...
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Soprano Patrice Michaels has been privileged to extend her artistry to an extraordinarily wide range of musical works in her long association with the Chicago-based Çedille Records label. Michaels has nurtured a special affinity for American art song since "early in [her] musical life," spurred on through her exposure to the work of Cole Porter and Stephen Sondheim. Although she has already paid tribute to her one-time compositional mentor, Dominick Argento, on a disc entitled To Be Sung Upon the Water, Michaels gets to expand upon her knowledge and expertise in contemporary American song through a Çedille disc titled simply American Songs. One will not find the familiar Ives songs, nor Copland's "I Bought Me a Cat" here; every one of the 27 songs featured was written by composers who remain living at the time of the disc's release, ranging in age from past 80 (Dan Tucker) to not quite 50 (Richard Pearson Thomas). Many of the composers are based in the Chicago area.These songs date roughly from 1952...
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