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News Archive: Page 10 of 271/11/99: Site Update
No updates lately because of some very
time-consuming personal planning going on for our future. I've made a few updates to
some links around the site (particularly check out Operabase on the Opera
page if you don't know about that resource already); added a Lee Hoiby song cycle for mezzo, baritone, wind quintet
and piano; added a Richard Cumming cycle for
bass-baritone, We Happy Few; added a book about German
auditioning; added a few links on the Personal page, and
maybe a few other things besides. Tour has started back up today, and most of the
real time-consuming personal planning stuff is hopefully behind me, so some more site
updates should be forthcoming now. I've received some more nice responses to the
web site--they are always appreciated; thank you. Please contribute links, books,
and music, and please tell others about the site!
Song Catalog
01-Jan-99: Giant Toad, by Hoiby, Lee, from Rain Forest [original key, chamber or a capella]01-Jan-99: Strayed Crab, by Hoiby, Lee, from Rain Forest [original key, chamber or a capella]01-Jan-99: Giant Snail, by Hoiby, Lee, from Rain Forest [original key, chamber or a capella]01-Jan-99: Sandpiper, by Hoiby, Lee, from Rain Forest [original key, chamber or a capella]11-Jan-99: The Feast of Crispian, by Cumming, Richard, from We Happy Few [original key, piano-vocal]11-Jan-99: To Whom Can I Speak Today?, by Cumming, Richard, from We Happy Few [original key, piano-vocal]11-Jan-99: Fife Tune (6/8) for 6 Platoon, 308th I.T.C., by Cumming, Richard, from We Happy Few [original key, piano-vocal]11-Jan-99: Here Dead Lie We, by Cumming, Richard, from We Happy Few [original key, piano-vocal]11-Jan-99: A Ballad of the Good Lord Nelson, by Cumming, Richard, from We Happy Few [original key, piano-vocal]11-Jan-99: Going to the Warres, by Cumming, Richard, from We Happy Few [original key, piano-vocal]11-Jan-99: A Sight in Camp, by Cumming, Richard, from We Happy Few [original key, piano-vocal]11-Jan-99: The End of the World, by Cumming, Richard, from We Happy Few [original key, piano-vocal]11-Jan-99: Grave Hour, by Cumming, Richard, from We Happy Few [original key, piano-vocal]11-Jan-99: The Song of Moses, by Cumming, Richard, from We Happy Few [original key, piano-vocal]
Bibliography
01-Jan-99: Rain Forest vocal score, by Lee Hoiby, Elizabeth Bishop.11-Jan-99: Singer's Guide to Auditioning in Unified Germany, by Kenneth Posey.11-Jan-99: We Happy Few, ten songs for voice and piano, by Richard Cumming.
[click for top of page] 12/29/98: Happy Birthday Karyn!
First, happy birthday to my wife, Karyn. One of
her presents was The Language of the Garden, by Andy
Vores--as an aside, I am happy to report that not only was the music excellent, as far as
a cursory look can ascertain, but the edition was also very professional looking. We
both look forward to her looking at it more thoroughly.
Second, happy holidays to all of you and best wishes for
a great 1999. We certainly had a happy Hanukkah and a merry Christmas, and we are
looking forward to New Year's Eve.
Finally, we have three new song cycles (all for
soprano or high voice; sorry, everybody else) by Daron Hagen in the song catalog.
They are Echo's Songs, Dear Youth, and Merrill
Songs. If you use those links, click on "song contents"
(highlighted in red) to really start examining them. Future updates should be a Lee
Hoiby cycle, an Irving Fine cycle, and a Richard Cumming cycle. Maybe some of the
composers I contacted this fall who expressed interest but haven't yet had time to
participate will also soon be able to contribute.
Oh, and I sent out a new newsletter sometime in
the past week or so. You can read it here, if you wish,
or join here, to get your own copy the next time I
send it out.
Song Catalog
30-Nov-98: Having a Coke with You, by Berg, Christopher, from Songs on Poems of Frank O'Hara [original key, piano-vocal]30-Nov-98: To You, by Berg, Christopher, from Songs on Poems of Frank O'Hara [original key, piano-vocal]30-Nov-98: St. Paul and All That, by Berg, Christopher, from Songs on Poems of Frank O'Hara [original key, piano-vocal]30-Nov-98: A True Account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island, by Berg, Christopher, from Songs on Poems of Frank O'Hara [original key, piano-vocal]09-Dec-98: O tan-faced prairie boy, by Thomas, Richard Pearson, from Drum Taps [original key, piano-vocal]09-Dec-98: Beat! Beat! Drums!, by Thomas, Richard Pearson, from Drum Taps [original key, piano-vocal]09-Dec-98: A sight in camp in the daybreak gray and dim, by Thomas, Richard Pearson, from Drum Taps [original key, piano-vocal]09-Dec-98: Dirge for two veterans, by Thomas, Richard Pearson, from Drum Taps [original key, piano-vocal]09-Dec-98: Vigil, by Thomas, Richard Pearson, from Drum Taps [original key, piano-vocal]09-Dec-98: Don't Let That Horse..., by Berg, Christopher [original key, chamber or a capella]21-Dec-98: I Am Loved, by Hagen, Daron, from Love Songs [original key, piano-vocal]21-Dec-98: Little Uneasy Song, by Hagen, Daron, from Love Songs [original key, piano-vocal]21-Dec-98: Ah! Sun-Flower, by Hagen, Daron, from Love Songs [original key, piano-vocal]21-Dec-98: Lost Love, by Hagen, Daron, from Love Songs [original key, piano-vocal]21-Dec-98: Washing Her Hair, by Hagen, Daron, from Love Songs [original key, piano-vocal]21-Dec-98: Requiem, by Hagen, Daron, from Love Songs [original key, piano-vocal]21-Dec-98: The Satyr, by Hagen, Daron, from Love Songs [original key, piano-vocal]21-Dec-98: Sonnet, by Hagen, Daron, from Love Songs [original key, piano-vocal]28-Dec-98: Never Pain to Tell Thy Love, by Hagen, Daron, from Echo's Songs [original key, piano-vocal]28-Dec-98: I Am Not Yours, by Hagen, Daron, from Echo's Songs [original key, piano-vocal]28-Dec-98: A Dream Within a Dream, by Hagen, Daron, from Echo's Songs [original key, piano-vocal]28-Dec-98: Echo's Song, by Hagen, Daron, from Echo's Songs [original key, piano-vocal]28-Dec-98: I Am Rose, by Hagen, Daron, from Echo's Songs [original key, piano-vocal]28-Dec-98: Lost, by Hagen, Daron, from Echo's Songs [original key, piano-vocal]28-Dec-98: Why Did You Go?, by Hagen, Daron, from Echo's Songs [original key, chamber or a capella]28-Dec-98: Since You Went Away, by Hagen, Daron, from Echo's Songs [original key, piano-vocal]28-Dec-98: Thou Wouldst Be Loved, by Hagen, Daron, from Echo's Songs [original key, piano-vocal]28-Dec-98: Look Down, Fair Moon, by Hagen, Daron, from Echo's Songs [original key, piano-vocal]28-Dec-98: The Mild Mother, by Hagen, Daron, from Echo's Songs [original key, piano-vocal]28-Dec-98: The Bonnie Blue Flag, by Hagen, Daron, from Dear Youth [original key, chamber or a capella]28-Dec-98: I Stop Again, by Hagen, Daron, from Dear Youth [original key, chamber or a capella]28-Dec-98: The Picture Graved into My Heart, by Hagen, Daron, from Dear Youth [original key, chamber or a capella]29-Dec-98: The Trouble Was Tom..., by Hagen, Daron, from Dear Youth [original key, chamber or a capella]29-Dec-98: The Lord Knows..., by Hagen, Daron, from Dear Youth [original key, chamber or a capella]29-Dec-98: O, For Such a Dream, by Hagen, Daron, from Dear Youth [original key, chamber or a capella]29-Dec-98: Christmas Night, by Hagen, Daron, from Dear Youth [original key, chamber or a capella]29-Dec-98: ...Silently Dispersing, by Hagen, Daron, from Dear Youth [original key, chamber or a capella]29-Dec-98: A Downward Look, by Hagen, Daron, from Merrill Songs [original key, piano-vocal]29-Dec-98: body, by Hagen, Daron, from Merrill Songs [original key, piano-vocal]29-Dec-98: The Instilling, by Hagen, Daron, from Merrill Songs [original key, piano-vocal]29-Dec-98: On the Block: Mantel Clock, Imitation Sèvres, by Hagen, Daron, from Merrill Songs [original key, piano-vocal]29-Dec-98: Vol. XLIV, No. 3, by Hagen, Daron, from Merrill Songs [original key, piano-vocal]29-Dec-98: On the Block: Lamp, Terracotta Base, US, ca. 1925, by Hagen, Daron, from Merrill Songs [original key, piano-vocal]29-Dec-98: Pledge, by Hagen, Daron, from Merrill Songs [original key, piano-vocal]29-Dec-98: An Upward Look, by Hagen, Daron, from Merrill Songs [original key, piano-vocal]
Bibliography
09-Dec-98: Drum Taps, for baritone and piano (or orchestra), by Richard Pearson Thomas, Walt Whitman.09-Dec-98: Don't Let That Horse... for medium voice and violin, by Christopher Berg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti.21-Dec-98: Love Songs for Voice and Piano, by Daron Hagen.21-Dec-98: Songs by Daron Hagen, by Daron Hagen, Susan Crowder, Bradley Moore, Sara Stern.28-Dec-98: Echo's Songs for High Voice and Piano, by Daron Hagen.28-Dec-98: Dear Youth for Soprano, Flute and Piano, by Daron Hagen.29-Dec-98: Merrill Songs for High Voice and Piano, by Daron Hagen, James Merrill.
[click for top of page] 12/21/98: Site Update
Here's the update, folks! A day late but
hopefully not a dollar short. The site should now work about equally for Internet
Explorer 4.0 users and Netscape Navigator 4.5 users. Actually, it seems in my use
of the site that Netscape Navigator handles the song catalog and bibliography better
because IE4 sometimes doesn't jump all the way to the correct place on a page. In
any case, the site looks almost identical in both browsers. I didn't bother
to update a few lesser-used pages like the old news and old newsletter pages because they
contain old information, but I might even get around to them sometime.
The song catalog now more
clearly directs you to how to obtain a copy of each song (click on the "GET IT!"
links). Various other improvements include better linking to outside sources in the
Anthology page, better edition information throughout the catalog, a more flexible and
more clear approach for cataloging non-piano-vocal music, clearer layout in the main Bibliography pages, and other small cosmetic changes.
The entire site looks a bit different even on IE4 because I had to use a different
approach to the HTML coding--less elegant, but more sturdy.
The number of site visitors is still riding
pretty high compared to only a month ago. The number of subscribers to the
newsletter also took a recent jump so I guess I'll actually get around to sending out a
new one soon (only about 100% late!).
Now that the site update is done (perhaps with a
few more bugs to catch, but essentially done) I'll probably cut down my work time on the
site to just an hour a day, which I will spend inputting songs or bibliography entries.
Please write and tell me how you like
the site, how you like the update, and if you find any obvious unsightliness or error
anywhere.
I also put up the solo vocal music catalog that
Carl Fischer sent me. You can find it here.
And the first ECS Daron Hagen cycle, Love Songs, of several more to come is in
the catalog too--you can begin exploring it here
(take the "song contents" link that is highlighted in red
to really start examining it). I really like the four cycles I've heard of his: Love
Songs, Echo's Songs, Dear Youth, and Merrill Songs.
Impressive stuff. The remaining three cycles will get in the catalog as soon as
possible. Selfishly, I hope I find some cycles of his for low voice--all the ones
I've seen so far have been for high voice.
[click for top of page] 12/13/98: Site News
I've been spending a great deal of my website
time fixing the site up for Netscape users. While IE 4.0 users will probably only
notice some small changes, Netscape users should be seeing the site in a way much more
like the IE4 experience. It's a big job. Again. :-)
I took advantage of this revamping to begin a new news page. So, welcome to the new news page. A tabula rasa.
This revamping has taken precedence over inputting new songs and books for the moment,
eager though I am to get some Hagen, Cumming, Fine, and other composers' works in the
catalog. Hopefully this won't take me more than a week. As the number of our
site visitors has increased dramatically, so has my ability to analyze statistics about
you--and more than half of you use Netscape. So, I'm spending a lot of time for all
you guys to get the look I intended.
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