This little disc, thoroughly American in conception despite its British issuer, offers more than it might seem at first glance. American soprano Christine Brewer was inspired to collect the material by her work with a voice teacher, Glenn Freiner of McKendree College in Illinois, who heard Kirsten Flagstad, Eileen Farrell, Helen Traubel, and Eleanor Steber as they toured the U.S. and collected programs or wrote down what they sang. Brewer's program is thus a snapshot of some music that was once reasonably common but has now ...
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This little disc, thoroughly American in conception despite its British issuer, offers more than it might seem at first glance. American soprano Christine Brewer was inspired to collect the material by her work with a voice teacher, Glenn Freiner of McKendree College in Illinois, who heard Kirsten Flagstad, Eileen Farrell, Helen Traubel, and Eleanor Steber as they toured the U.S. and collected programs or wrote down what they sang. Brewer's program is thus a snapshot of some music that was once reasonably common but has now, with the exception of the Broadway selections by Leonard Bernstein, Vincent Youmans, and a few others, been almost totally forgotten. Some of the material has a precious quality, it's true, but set aside the contemporary requirement of irony for a while and listeners will probably enjoy the album. Hardhearted would be the listener who could resist Sea Moods by Mildred Lund Tyson, for whom not even a deathdate is known, with its picture of white wavelets "tumbling along, rippling...
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