Gentle Words: Shaker Songs
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Composer: American TraditionalComposer: James Whittaker
Performer: John Lockwood
Performer: Clarissa Jacobs
Performer: Paulina Bates
Orchestra: Addah Z. Potter
Conductor: Ephraim Frost
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2001-06-05
Music Label: Loft Recordings
Soundtracks:
- I Will Bow and Be Simple
- In Yonder Valley
- All Is Summer
- O Lord Make Me Pure
- Love Is Little
- Burning Day
- Circular March
- Help Me, O Lord
- Heavenly Display
- Followers of the Lamb
- Come to Zion
- We Must Be Meek
- Lay Me Low
- Solemn Song
- Beautiful Treasure
- Peace
- Angels of Heaven
- Hunger and Thirst
- Dismission of Great I
- Revelation
- Prayer for the Captive
- Gentle Words
- Beautiful Valley
- Jubilee
- Ezekiel's Vision
- Almighty Savior
- Cords of Love
- I Will Go on My Way
Music reviews of Gentle Words: Shaker Songs
Music Review: beauty, simplicity, and utility
Rating: 5 Stars
Of this CD's twenty-eight tracks, eighteen are arrangements by Kevin Siegfried; the remaining ten are straightforward, unadorned performances of Shaker hymns, sung either by the choir in unison, or by a solo voice, as they would have been sung in Shaker services. Occasionally the choir stomps and claps, also as the Shakers would have done. The unison songs and Kevin's settings blend seamlessly together, since Kevin's music is very sensitive to the spirit of the original tunes. His harmonies have an open, rough-hewn quality to them, like early American furniture, sturdy and useful. The music carefully mirrors and supports the text, occasionally employing mixed meter to follow the natural cadences of speech. The settings are largely homophonic, like Lutheran chorales, rendering the text easily comprehensible. Kevin avoids unnecessary embellishments and repetitions, and each piece is a small, well-proportioned gem, averaging about two minutes in length. In the liner notes, Kevin writes of his desire to preserve the Shaker ideals of "beauty, simplicity, and utility" in his settings, and he has succeeded brilliantly; the music is unassuming, serene, and peaceful.
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