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News Archive: Page 14 of 2711/22/98: Site Update
The song catalog jumped to over 200 songs this weekend
because Welsh composer Andy Vores contributed all of the basic information for all of his
song cycles on Saturday. The composer has received numerous awards for his
composition and has had singers such as Sanford Sylvan, Dawn Upshaw, and Sarah Walker
perform his works. Most of the entries currently contain the full text of the song
but no song comments. Andy Vores will be gradually filling out the entries with song
comments, anthology prices, etc. over time. The texts look great, and the composer's
biography is very impressive. Please look at the catalog!
We are running out of space on this free web space at Earthlink so I have been
exploring other options. We may be moving our address, and I also have been toying
with the idea of actually shelling out some dough to get our own domain name (e.g.,
www.daringdiva.com). A lot of money, though, for both items, at least for people on
our budget. We'll see.
I added two books to the Singers' Bibliography: an
oratorio reference and a bel canto opera reference. Look in the sacred music
repertoire listing or the history section for the oratorio book, and in the opera section
or the history section for the bel canto book. In other bibliography news, I am
still making small strides in adding VocaList reviews and Amazon prices and features.
It will take a while.
Yahoo! sent me a note that they had finally added the site to their listings.
Should be up on the Yahoo singing page and in the search index in three or four
days. It took over two months! I know they are swamped, though.
OK, there might be some more news but I can't think of it and I need to go to bed.
G'night!
Song Catalog
18-Nov-98: The Pobble Who Has No Toes, by Thomas, Richard Pearson, from A Little Nonsense, songs to texts of Edward Lear for soprano [original key, piano-vocal]18-Nov-98: Calico Pie, by Thomas, Richard Pearson, from A Little Nonsense, songs to texts of Edward Lear for soprano [original key, piano-vocal]18-Nov-98: The Owl and the Pussycat, by Thomas, Richard Pearson, from A Little Nonsense, songs to texts of Edward Lear for soprano [original key, piano-vocal]21-Nov-98: Never May the Fruit be Plucked, by Vores, Andy, from The Rainy Summer [original key, piano-vocal]21-Nov-98: The True Encounter, by Vores, Andy, from The Rainy Summer [original key, piano-vocal]21-Nov-98: All Soul's Night, by Vores, Andy, from The Rainy Summer [original key, piano-vocal]21-Nov-98: The Rainy Summer, by Vores, Andy, from The Rainy Summer [original key, piano-vocal]21-Nov-98: The Coming of Good Luck, by Vores, Andy, from The Rainy Summer [original key, piano-vocal]21-Nov-98: The Peace of Wild Things, by Vores, Andy, from The Rainy Summer [original key, piano-vocal]21-Nov-98: Before You Came, by Vores, Andy, from Before You Came [original key, piano-vocal]21-Nov-98: Love Song, by Vores, Andy, from Before You Came [original key, piano-vocal]21-Nov-98: Be Near Me, by Vores, Andy, from Before You Came [original key, piano-vocal]21-Nov-98: Three Hinds of Derbyshire, by Vores, Andy, from Welsh Songs [original key, piano-vocal]21-Nov-98: The Sick Man of Aber Cuawg, by Vores, Andy, from Welsh Songs [original key, piano-vocal]21-Nov-98: Grief, by Vores, Andy, from Welsh Songs [original key, piano-vocal]21-Nov-98: Epithalamion, by Vores, Andy, from Welsh Songs [original key, piano-vocal]21-Nov-98: The Lover's Shirt, by Vores, Andy, from Welsh Songs [original key, piano-vocal]21-Nov-98: Poem, by Vores, Andy, from Boy Mad [original key, piano-vocal]21-Nov-98: On His Queerness, by Vores, Andy, from Boy Mad [original key, piano-vocal]21-Nov-98: The Six Don'ts, by Vores, Andy, from Boy Mad [original key, piano-vocal]21-Nov-98: Burn, Cupid, by Vores, Andy, from Boy Mad [original key, piano-vocal]21-Nov-98: My Sex Experience with Randall Jarrell, by Vores, Andy, from Boy Mad [original key, piano-vocal]21-Nov-98: We've Got to Stop Meeting Like This, I Think Herbert's Getting Suspicious, by Vores, Andy, from Boy Mad [original key, piano-vocal]21-Nov-98: The Six Don'ts, by Vores, Andy, from Boy Mad [original key, piano-vocal]21-Nov-98: Leaving the Boys Behind, by Vores, Andy, from Boy Mad [original key, piano-vocal]21-Nov-98: If the Soul Was Born with Pinions, by Vores, Andy, from The Reckless Heart [original key, piano-vocal]21-Nov-98: Dora Williams, by Vores, Andy, from The Reckless Heart [original key, piano-vocal]21-Nov-98: On Foot I Had to Walk Through the Solar Systems, by Vores, Andy, from The Reckless Heart [original key, piano-vocal]21-Nov-98: My Roaring Boy, by Vores, Andy, from The Reckless Heart [original key, piano-vocal]21-Nov-98: Beyond the Hunting Woods, by Vores, Andy, from The Reckless Heart [original key, piano-vocal]21-Nov-98: Sweet Betsy from Pike, by Vores, Andy, from American Folk Songs Book 1: The West [original key, piano-vocal]21-Nov-98: I Asked That Girl to Marry Me, by Vores, Andy, from American Folk Songs Book 1: The West [original key, piano-vocal]21-Nov-98: Home on the Range, by Vores, Andy, from American Folk Songs Book 1: The West [original key, piano-vocal]21-Nov-98: The Streets of Laredo, by Vores, Andy, from American Folk Songs Book 1: The West [original key, piano-vocal]21-Nov-98: The Old Gray Goose, by Vores, Andy, from American Folk Songs Book 1: The West [original key, piano-vocal]21-Nov-98: Red River Valley, by Vores, Andy, from American Folk Songs Book 1: The West [original key, piano-vocal]21-Nov-98: I Ride an Old Paint, by Vores, Andy, from American Folk Songs Book 1: The West [original key, piano-vocal]21-Nov-98: (Winged by my Multifeathered Flexed Knees), by Vores, Andy, from Cleopatra [original key, piano-vocal]21-Nov-98: (I Scatter Before You Like Pollen), by Vores, Andy, from Cleopatra [original key, piano-vocal]21-Nov-98: (The Lover's Total Death in Your Cool Limbs), by Vores, Andy, from Cleopatra [original key, piano-vocal]21-Nov-98: (The Moon Rises Over Your Left Shoulder), by Vores, Andy, from Cleopatra [original key, piano-vocal]21-Nov-98: (But, Beware, Beloved, Ptolemy Women Engender Violence), by Vores, Andy, from Cleopatra [original key, piano-vocal]21-Nov-98: (O Friendly Enemy, We Have Loved), by Vores, Andy, from Cleopatra [original key, piano-vocal]21-Nov-98: (And So Love Passed Through a Nude Woman), by Vores, Andy, from Cleopatra [original key, piano-vocal]21-Nov-98: Factory Windows Are Always Broken, by Vores, Andy, from Five American Songs [original key, piano-vocal]21-Nov-98: Anecdote of the Jar, by Vores, Andy, from Five American Songs [original key, piano-vocal]21-Nov-98: American Primitive, by Vores, Andy, from Five American Songs [original key, piano-vocal]21-Nov-98: Old Smoky, by Vores, Andy, from Five American Songs [original key, piano-vocal]21-Nov-98: In a Parlor Containing a Table, by Vores, Andy, from Five American Songs [original key, piano-vocal]21-Nov-98: Out of this World I Shall Discover Horses, by Vores, Andy, from Household Tales [original key, piano-vocal]21-Nov-98: First Goddess: Deverra, by Vores, Andy, from Household Tales [original key, piano-vocal]21-Nov-98: Second Goddess: Juno Lucina, by Vores, Andy, from Household Tales [original key, piano-vocal]21-Nov-98: The Argument of His Book, by Vores, Andy, from Household Tales [original key, piano-vocal]21-Nov-98: The Five Versions of the Icicle, by Vores, Andy, from Household Tales [original key, piano-vocal]21-Nov-98: How the Hen Sold Her Eggs to the Stingy Priest, by Vores, Andy, from Household Tales [original key, piano-vocal]21-Nov-98: How Violets Came Blew, by Vores, Andy, from Household Tales [original key, piano-vocal]21-Nov-98: How Marigolds Came Yellow, by Vores, Andy, from Household Tales [original key, piano-vocal]21-Nov-98: How Roses Came Red, by Vores, Andy, from Household Tales [original key, piano-vocal]21-Nov-98: The Healers, by Vores, Andy, from Household Tales [original key, piano-vocal]21-Nov-98: Change of Life, by Vores, Andy, from Household Tales [original key, piano-vocal]21-Nov-98: In Which, by Good Luck, I Lose Nearly Everything, by Vores, Andy, from Household Tales [original key, piano-vocal]21-Nov-98: Arbor, by Vores, Andy, from Household Tales [original key, piano-vocal]21-Nov-98: Gold and Money, by Vores, Andy, from The Language of the Garden [original key, piano-vocal]21-Nov-98: I Have a Garden Plot, by Vores, Andy, from The Language of the Garden [original key, piano-vocal]21-Nov-98: Rustic Adornments for Homes of Taste, by Vores, Andy, from The Language of the Garden [original key, piano-vocal]21-Nov-98: Of Composts, by Vores, Andy, from The Language of the Garden [original key, piano-vocal]21-Nov-98: To a Friend, Planting, by Vores, Andy, from The Language of the Garden [original key, piano-vocal]21-Nov-98: The Economy of Vegetation, by Vores, Andy, from The Language of the Garden [original key, piano-vocal]21-Nov-98: Elizabeth and Her German Garden, by Vores, Andy, from The Language of the Garden [original key, piano-vocal]21-Nov-98: The Man of Double Deed, by Vores, Andy, from The Language of the Garden [original key, piano-vocal]21-Nov-98: The Poplar Field, by Vores, Andy, from The Language of the Garden [original key, piano-vocal]21-Nov-98: The Garden Seat, by Vores, Andy, from The Language of the Garden [original key, piano-vocal]21-Nov-98: The Garden (Vita Sackville-West setting), by Vores, Andy, from The Language of the Garden [original key, piano-vocal]21-Nov-98: At the Sign of the Lyre, by Vores, Andy, from The Language of the Garden [original key, piano-vocal]21-Nov-98: The Key of the Kingdom, by Vores, Andy, from The Language of the Garden [original key, piano-vocal]21-Nov-98: The Little Box, by Vores, Andy, from The Little Box [original key, piano-vocal]21-Nov-98: The Tenants of the Little Box, by Vores, Andy, from The Little Box [original key, piano-vocal]21-Nov-98: The Craftsmen of the Little Box, by Vores, Andy, from The Little Box [original key, piano-vocal]21-Nov-98: The Victims of the Little Box, by Vores, Andy, from The Little Box [original key, piano-vocal]21-Nov-98: The Enemies of the Little Box, by Vores, Andy, from The Little Box [original key, piano-vocal]21-Nov-98: The Prisoners of the Little Box, by Vores, Andy, from The Little Box [original key, piano-vocal]21-Nov-98: Last News About the Little Box, by Vores, Andy, from The Little Box [original key, piano-vocal]21-Nov-98: The Babies, by Vores, Andy, from Return to a Place [original key, piano-vocal]22-Nov-98: The Lost Children, by Vores, Andy, from Return to a Place [original key, piano-vocal]22-Nov-98: Cloud River, by Vores, Andy, from Return to a Place [original key, piano-vocal]22-Nov-98: Return to a Place Lit by a Glass of Milk, by Vores, Andy, from Return to a Place [original key, piano-vocal]22-Nov-98: The Garden, by Vores, Andy, from Return to a Place [original key, piano-vocal]22-Nov-98: The Project, by Vores, Andy, from Return to a Place [original key, piano-vocal]22-Nov-98: Solitude, by Vores, Andy, from Return to a Place [original key, piano-vocal]22-Nov-98: There Is No, by Vores, Andy, from Return to a Place [original key, piano-vocal]22-Nov-98: Song of South of the River, by Vores, Andy, from T'ang Poems [original key, piano-vocal]22-Nov-98: The New Wife, by Vores, Andy, from T'ang Poems [original key, piano-vocal]22-Nov-98: Ballad of Ch'ang-kan, by Vores, Andy, from T'ang Poems [original key, piano-vocal]22-Nov-98: Lying Among the "Bloodstained Bamboo", by Vores, Andy, from T'ang Poems [original key, piano-vocal]22-Nov-98: River Snow, by Vores, Andy, from T'ang Poems [original key, piano-vocal]22-Nov-98: In the Company of a Monk, by Vores, Andy, from T'ang Poems [original key, piano-vocal]22-Nov-98: The West River at Ch'u-chou, by Vores, Andy, from T'ang Poems [original key, piano-vocal]22-Nov-98: Annie, by Vores, Andy, from Three Apollinaire Songs [original key, piano-vocal]22-Nov-98: La Dame, by Vores, Andy, from Three Apollinaire Songs [original key, piano-vocal]22-Nov-98: Clotilde, by Vores, Andy, from Three Apollinaire Songs [original key, piano-vocal]22-Nov-98: Soixante-Quatre Ans, by Vores, Andy, from Three Queneau Songs [original key, piano-vocal]22-Nov-98: Forme de la Ferme, by Vores, Andy, from Three Queneau Songs [original key, piano-vocal]22-Nov-98: Jardin Oublié, by Vores, Andy, from Three Queneau Songs [original key, piano-vocal]22-Nov-98: Medaille de Sauvetage, by Vores, Andy, from Three Soupault Songs [original key, piano-vocal]22-Nov-98: Georgia, by Vores, Andy, from Three Soupault Songs [original key, piano-vocal]22-Nov-98: Horizon, by Vores, Andy, from Three Soupault Songs [original key, piano-vocal]22-Nov-98: A Summer Twilight, by Vores, Andy, from Travelling Through the Dark [original key, piano-vocal]22-Nov-98: The Ghost Ship, by Vores, Andy, from Travelling Through the Dark [original key, piano-vocal]22-Nov-98: Camphor Laurel, by Vores, Andy, from Travelling Through the Dark [original key, piano-vocal]22-Nov-98: A Kind of Good-bye, by Vores, Andy, from Travelling Through the Dark [original key, piano-vocal]22-Nov-98: A Spirit Haunts the Year's Last Hours, by Vores, Andy, from Travelling Through the Dark [original key, piano-vocal]22-Nov-98: Strange Tree, by Vores, Andy, from Travelling Through the Dark [original key, piano-vocal]22-Nov-98: The Dreadful Has Already Happened, by Vores, Andy, from Travelling Through the Dark [original key, piano-vocal]22-Nov-98: Journey Through Hell, by Vores, Andy, from Travelling Through the Dark [original key, piano-vocal]22-Nov-98: The Bardo of The Experiencing of Reality, by Vores, Andy, from Travelling Through the Dark [original key, piano-vocal]22-Nov-98: The Village Coddled in the Valley, by Vores, Andy, from Travelling Through the Dark [original key, piano-vocal]22-Nov-98: Der Weiher, by Vores, Andy, from Wasserabstieglieder [original key, piano-vocal]22-Nov-98: Kinder am Ufer, by Vores, Andy, from Wasserabstieglieder [original key, piano-vocal]22-Nov-98: Ein Dunkler Fleck, by Vores, Andy, from Wasserabstieglieder [original key, piano-vocal]22-Nov-98: Im Grase, by Vores, Andy, from Wasserabstieglieder [original key, piano-vocal]22-Nov-98: Im Duftigen Moose Gestrecket, by Vores, Andy, from Wasserabstieglieder [original key, piano-vocal]22-Nov-98: Das Schilf, by Vores, Andy, from Wasserabstieglieder [original key, piano-vocal]
Bibliography
18-Nov-98: A Little Nonsense, songs to texts of Edward Lear for soprano, by Richard Pearson Thomas, Edward Lear.22-Nov-98: The Bel Canto Operas of Rossini, Donizetti, and Bellini, by Charles Osborne.22-Nov-98: The World of the Oratorio: Oratorio, Mass, Requiem, Te Deum, Stabat Mater, and Large Cantatas. Originally Oratorien der Welt., by Kurt Pahlen, Werner Pfister, Rosemarie Koenig, Thurston Dox.
[click for top of page] 11/20/98: Sorabji concert with Christopher Berg
Lots of news to report. First, Christopher Berg sent me some more information
about the Dec. 6 Sorabji concert at Merkin Concert Hall in NYC. It starts at 7:30
p.m. Tickets are $20, or $10 for students/seniors, and are available at the Merkin
box office or phone (212)501-3330. "It appears the New Yorker is planning to
give us a listing, so perhaps early purchase is advisable." Here is the
program:
- INTERLUDE (1922) for piano
- (C. Berg at said instrument)
- PIANO QUINTET No. 1 (1920) World Premiere
- Berg, piano; Marshall Coid and Lilit Gampel, violins; David Cerutti, viola;
- Christine Gummere, cello (approx 25 mins.)
- TROIS FÊTES GALANTES DE VERLAINE (1919) (approx. 10 mins.)
- Felicity La Fortune, soprano; Berg, piano
- songs: l. L'Allée 2. A la promenade 3. Dans la grotte
- PIANO SONATA No. 2 (1920)
- Tellef Johnson, piano (approx. 45 mins)
- CAPRICIOUS CAPRICE ON THE "MINUTE" WALTZ OF CHOPIN (1933)
- Michael Habermann, piano (approx. 4 minutes)
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- followed by panel discussion
Sounds great!
Next, Andy Vores, a Boston composer whom Will Graham had recommended, contacted me and
said he would be interested in helping me add his songs to the catalog. Fantastic!
I'll report on how that proceeds as it happens.
Also, Glendower Jones of Classical Vocal
Reprints helped me with some information on Daron Aric Hagen and then I actually found
Hagen's web site. I wrote him about
inclusion in the song catalog and he was complimentary and very interested. He gave
me the names of his editors to get promo copies and I will contact them later today.
So, another step forward.
A site visitor emailed me and suggested some improvements to the Singers' Bibliography: a more thorough listing of the
original VocaList reviews of each book and a note of the number of pages for each book.
I am in the process of acting on her suggestions, as well as doing a more thorough
job on reporting the price, the speed with which Amazon can ship an item, and the presence
of book reviews connected with the Amazon listing. The site visitor also offered to
add some bibliographical listings, but over a fax, so I need to get the opera office's fax
number...
I finally sat down and really looked at the new, fully operational Classical Vocal Reprints site. I was
very impressed, and really feel they have done an excellent job, particularly with their
implementation of their on-line catalog. It's easy to browse, and easy to find a
specific item. Kudos to CVR and to their webmaster, Eric of Lockjaw Webpublishing
Associates.
Finally, I'm making progress in getting in touch with Chicago composers George Flynn
and John Eaton, thanks to some very nice people in the DePaul and Chicago University music
departments.
On a personal note, Karyn got some Zithromax herself today; we should be getting soon,
maybe in time for a Sunday concert in which we both are supposed to sing an aria.
[click for top of page] 11/19/98: Site News
Went to the doctor, got some Zithromax, should be better soon. Karyn is feeling
sick also, though.
I mailed out a new newsletter. You can subscribe yourself here (please do!), or see the contents of past
newsletters here.
By the way, if you are going to be in New York City on December 6, Christopher Berg is
part of a performance of works by Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji (1892-1988) in Merkin Concert
Hall. The recital includes some settings of Verlaine, and Sorabji's music is highly
recommended by Berg. Give it a listen! We may get these Sorabji songs in the
song catalog eventually.
Glendower Jones of Classical Vocal Reprints
emailed me about yesterday's query into Daron Hagen. ECS Publishing has him signed,
and three song cycles of his are out: Echo's songs, Love Songs and Dear Youth (Sop, Flute,
pno). Glendower has all three in stock. I'll have to see if there is any way
to get information for these, and for the apparently hundreds of unpublished songs Hagen
also has. Maybe I can get in touch with him somehow...
I found a web site for Daron Aric Hagen! Here it is. I am going to try and email
him directly...Meanwhile, I have also contacted John Eaton, George Flynn, and Frank
Warren.
[click for top of page] 11/18/98: Site Update
Really sick (nasal infection). Going to the doctor tomorrow morning. Sang
for Craig Rutenberg today anyway, because I couldn't pass up the opportunity, but it
really tired me out.
Meanwhile, got another cycle of Richard Pearson Thomas in the catalog, this one a really interesting and fun setting of some
Edward Lear nonsense. And by the way, has anyone heard of a contemporary
American composer by the name of Hagen? Daron Aric Hagen might be it. Ring a bell?
Anyone know how to get in touch with him or get some of his music? He is
mentioned in Carol Kimball's book as an extremely talented former student of Ned Rorem.
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