But Yesterday Is Not Today-The American Art Song 1927-1972

But Yesterday Is Not Today-The American Art Song 1927-1972

But Yesterday Is Not Today-The American Art Song 1927-1972
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Performer: Donald Gramm
Composer: Samuel Barber
Composer: Paul Bowles
Composer: Theodore Chanler
Composer: Israel Citkowitz
Composer: Aaron Copland
Composer: John Woods Duke
Composer: Robert Helps
Composer: Roger Sessions
Performer: Donald Hassard
Performer: Robert Helps
Performer: Bethany Beardslee
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1996-09-17
Music Label: New World Records
Soundtracks:
  1. The Children, song for voice & piano (from The Children)
  2. Once Upon A Time, song for voice & piano (from The Children)
  3. The Rose, song for voice & piano (from the Children)
  4. Moo is a Cow, song for voice & piano (from The Children)
  5. Thomas Logge, for voice & piano (from Epitaphs)
  6. Once a Lady Was Here, song for voice & piano
  7. Farther from the Heart (Song of an Old Woman), for voice & piano
  8. Luke Havergal for voice & piano
  9. Miniver Cheevy for voice & piano
  10. Firve Songs from 'Chamber Music' for voice & piano: Strings In The Earth And Air
  11. Firve Songs from 'Chamber Music' for voice & piano: When The Shy Star Goes Forth In Heaven
  12. Firve Songs from 'Chamber Music' for voice & piano: O, It Was Out By Donnycarney
  13. Firve Songs from 'Chamber Music' for voice & piano: Bid Adieu
  14. Firve Songs from 'Chamber Music' for voice & piano: My Love Is In A Light Attire
  15. Poet's Song, song for voice & piano
  16. On the Beach At Fontana, for voice & piano
  17. These, My Ophelia, for voice & piano
  18. Sure on this shining night, song for voice & piano (also arr. for voice, orch, chorus & piano), Op. 13/3
  19. The Running Set, for voice & piano

Music reviews of But Yesterday Is Not Today-The American Art Song 1927-1972

Music Review: A fresh, telling look in the mirror
Rating: 4 Stars

I found pleasure in this CD of American art songs, especially because it brought back estimable singers like Donald Gramm and Bethany Beardsless. Having devoted themselves to modern music and art songs over conventional opera careers, they are the kind of performers who have slipped out of the spotlight all too soon.

As for the songs themselves, they shouldn't be oversold. The general idiom is very conservative and often colloquial. Quite a few numbers are pop ditties in disguise, the musical equivalent of light verse. Others reflect folk tradition or hark back to earnest Victorian platform songs. It was hard for American composers to escape these derivative influences, which is why Charles Ives stood out so distinctively (he isn't represented here, however).

Theodore Chanler seems content to be a musical Ogden Nash. Paul Bowles is more minimal, elegant, and French. John Woods Duke's settings of Edward Arlington Robinson attempt to match the poet's everyday Midwestern surface with underlying irony and tragedy. (I have a weakness for Duke's "Luke Havrgal," which hits upon a magical combination of fulsome romantic sentiment and luscious melody.) Israel Citkowitz sets five poems from James Joyce's "Chamber Music" in a spare, unobtrusive style reminiscent of Ned Rorem; frankly, I'd be hard put to tell the two apart. We end with a song each from Copland, Barber, Roger Sessions, and Robert Helps. Of these, one is a classic (Barber's "Sure on This Shining Night") and another points the way to the language of modernism that left conservatism far behind (Sessions' "On the Beach at Fontana").

Even if one cannot claim that American composers found a medium for the art song that equals the French chanson or German lied, this CD gives us a refreshing and teling look in the mirror.

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