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Songs of Smaller Creatures, for chorus Three Pieces about Bees, for chorusAlbum Summary
Performers- Hanna Dixon
- Peter Sovitsky
- Amy Conn (Soprano)
Notes & Reviews:
Conducted by Christopher Bell, Chicago's Grant Park Chorus, "as fine a symphony chorus as any to be found anywhere in the nation" (Chicago Tribune), makes its a cappella CD debut with an all-American program of eight imaginative, moving, and sometimes whimsical works written between 1975 and 2005, including four world-premiere recordings. Premieres include Abbie Betinis's Toward Sunshine, Toward Freedom: Songs of Smaller Creatures. Lee Kesselman's Buzzings: Three Pieces about Bees offers vignettes based on Emily Dickinson poems. Paul Crabtree's Five Romantic Miniatures is a set of affectionate tributes to characters from The Simpsons animated TV series. The chorus made its commercial recording debut performing with the Grant Park Orchestra on the 2011 Cedille Records release The Pulitzer Project, which attracted international attention. Chicago's New City said the CD "spectacularly showcased" the chorus's "remarkable transparency and flexibility."
American Record Guide, November/December 2012
The choir is perfectly placed on the sound stage: not too reverberant and not too close, but not too far either. Notes and texts. Enjoy the preliminary buzzing, then, but be ready for more. A lot more.
Recording information: Harris Theater for Music and Dance, Millennium Park, Ch (06/28/2011/06/30/2011).
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Works Details
Betinis, Abbie : Toward Sunshine, Toward Freedom :: Songs of Smaller Creatures, for chorus - Performer: Hanna Dixon
- Conductor: Christopher Bell
- Ensemble: Grant Park Chorus
- Notes: Harris Theater for Music and Dance, Millennium Park, Chicago, IL (06/28/2011/06/30/2011)
- Running Time: 9 min. 11 sec.
- Period Time: Contemporary
- Written: 2005
Kesselman, Lee : Buzzings :: Three Pieces about Bees, for chorus - Conductor: Christopher Bell
- Notes: Harris Theater for Music and Dance, Millennium Park, Chicago, IL (06/28/2011/06/30/2011)
- Running Time: 4 min. 16 sec.
- Period Time: Contemporary
- Written: 1976
Whitacre, Eric : When David Heard - Performer: Peter Sovitsky
- Conductor: Christopher Bell
- Notes: Harris Theater for Music and Dance, Millennium Park, Chicago, IL (06/28/2011/06/30/2011)
- Running Time: 11 min. 50 sec.
- Period Time: Contemporary
- Written: 1999
Garrop, Stacy : Sonnets of Desire, Longing, and Whimsy, for chorus - Conductor: Christopher Bell
- Notes: Harris Theater for Music and Dance, Millennium Park, Chicago, IL (06/28/2011/06/30/2011)
- Running Time: 7 min. 10 sec.
- Period Time: Contemporary
- Written: 2004
Del Tredici, David : Acrostic Song (from Final Alice), for saxophone & piano - Performer: Amy Conn (Soprano)
- Conductor: Christopher Bell
- Notes: Harris Theater for Music and Dance, Millennium Park, Chicago, IL (06/28/2011/06/30/2011)
- Running Time: 4 min. 53 sec.
- Period Time: Contemporary
- Form: Vocal
- Written: 1976
Rorem, Ned : Motets (7) for the Church Year, for chorus - Conductor: Christopher Bell
- Notes: Harris Theater for Music and Dance, Millennium Park, Chicago, IL (06/28/2011/06/30/2011)
- Running Time: 10 min. 28 sec.
- Period Time: Modern
Crabtree, Paul : Romantic Miniatures (5), for chorus - Conductor: Christopher Bell
- Notes: Harris Theater for Music and Dance, Millennium Park, Chicago, IL (06/28/2011/06/30/2011)
- Running Time: 6 min. 14 sec.
- Period Time: Contemporary
- Written: 1999
Whitacre, Eric : Sleep - Conductor: Christopher Bell
- Notes: Harris Theater for Music and Dance, Millennium Park, Chicago, IL (06/28/2011/06/30/2011)
- Running Time: 4 min. 28 sec.
- Period Time: Contemporary
- Written: 2000
