Operatic star Kallen Esperian is featured as soloist and in concert with the Memphis Vocal Arts Ensemble, Thomas Machen, music director, in this 1994 release, in a collection of American folk songs and ballads as arranged by both well known and new vocal arrangers.
Released as a Digital Audio Compact Disc.
This title shall be scheduled for digital distribution in 2021, pending the establishment of a release agreement with the principal artists.
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Details
Format: Digital Audio CD
Label: PRO ORGANO
Catalog Number: CD 7047
Length: 66′ 06″
Tracks: 8
Organ: –
Venue: St. John’s Episcopal Church, Memphis, Tennessee USA
Recorded: 06/21/1994
Released: 11/01/1994
Producer: Frederick Hohman
Notes Author: Betty Larkey
Notes Language: English
Graphics Format: 8pp book, traycard, jewel box
UPC #: 636077704727
01 • Oh! Susanna • arr. Mark Hayes • 3’27”
02 • Red Rosey Bush • arr. Victor Young • 3’27”
03 • Barbara Allen from Three Mountain Ballades • arr. Ron Nelson • 3’28”
04 • Billy Boy • John Edmunds • 1’39”
05 • Go ‘way from my window • arr. John Jacob Niles • 3’40”
06 • Skip to my Lou • arr. Luigi Zaninelli • 2’6″
07 • The turtle dove • arr. Linda Steen Spevacek • 4’46”
08 • Simple Gifts • arr. Aaron Copland • 1’27”
09 • Riders in the Sky • arr. Norman Luboff • 3’32”
10 • Home on the Range • arr. Paul Peck • 2’41”
11 • The Nightingale • arr. Luigi Zaninelli • 3′
12 • Johnny Has Gone For a Soldier • arr. J. Stanley Sheppard • 3’17”
13 • Arkansas Traveler • arr. Steven Porter • 2’24”
14 • Shenandoah • arr. James Erb • 4’5″
15 • Long Time Ago • arr. Aaron Copland • 2’58”
16 • The Wraggle-Taggle Gypsies from Partings, Three Appalachian Folk Songs • arr. Alice Parker • 5’7″
17 • Ching-a-ring chaw • arr. Aaron Copland adaptation by Irving Fine • 1’47”
18 • Wayfaring Stranger • John Jacob Niles • 3’58”
19 • Hark! I hear the harps eternal • arr. Alice Parker • 2’16”
20 • Goin’ home • arr. William Arms Fisher • 6’34”
Memphis Vocal Arts Ensemble, Thomas Machen, music director
As a graduate student in Illinois, Thomas Machen cast an inexperienced soprano sophomore in an operatic lead rather than the chorus role she hoped to get, and cast the direction of their future. The soprano was Kallen Esperian. They were married soon after Machen accepted a position to direct opera at the University of Memphis. Learn more…
