An American Sampler - From Billings to Bolcom / Paul Sperry

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Album Summary

Performers

• Paul Sperry (Tenor)
• Irma Vallecillo (Piano)

Composers

• Hugo Weisgall (1912 - )
• Celius Dougherty (1902 - 1986)
• John Woods Duke (1899 - 1984)
• Henry Cowell (1897 - 1965)
• Ned Rorem (1923 - )
• William Billings (1746 - 1800)
• Maury Yeston (1945 - )
• Louise Talma (1906 - 1996)
• Morten Lauridsen (1943 - )
• Ben Weber (1916 - 1979)
• William Flanagan (1928 - 1969)
• John Musto (1954 - )
• Samuel Barber (1910 - 1981)
• Stephen Foster (1826 - 1864)
• William Schuman (1910 - 1992)
• Kurt Weill (1900 - 1950)
• William Bolcom (1938 - )
• Elliott Carter (Composer) (1908 - )
• Robert Beaser (1954 - )
• Charles Tomlinson Griffes (1884 - 1920)
• Warren Swenson

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Works Details

Talma, Louise : Pied Beauty

• Performers: Paul Sperry (Tenor); Irma Vallecillo (Piano)
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Vocal
• Studio/Live: Studio

Schuman, William : Orpheus and his Lute

• Performers: Paul Sperry (Tenor); Irma Vallecillo (Piano)
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Vocal
• Written: 1944
• Language: English
• Studio/Live: Studio

Weisgall, Hugo : My Sweet Old Etcetera

• Performers: Paul Sperry (Tenor); Irma Vallecillo (Piano)
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Vocal
• Studio/Live: Studio

Lauridsen, Morten : When frost moves fast

• Performers: Paul Sperry (Tenor); Irma Vallecillo (Piano)
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Form: Vocal
• Studio/Live: Studio

Weill, Kurt : Walt Whitman Songs (4) :: Dirge for two veterans

• Performers: Paul Sperry (Tenor); Irma Vallecillo (Piano)
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Vocal
• Written: 1942-1947
• Studio/Live: Studio

Dougherty, Celius : Love in the dictionary

• Performers: Irma Vallecillo (Piano); Paul Sperry (Tenor)
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Vocal
• Studio/Live: Studio

Weber, Ben : Mourn! Mourn!

• Performers: Paul Sperry (Tenor); Irma Vallecillo (Piano)
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Vocal
• Studio/Live: Studio

Bolcom, William : Cabaret Songs (12), Vol 1 and 2 :: no 12, George

• Performers: Paul Sperry (Tenor); Irma Vallecillo (Piano)
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Form: Vocal
• Written: 1977-1985
• Studio/Live: Studio

Duke, John Woods : Bells in the rain

• Performers: Paul Sperry (Tenor); Irma Vallecillo (Piano)
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Vocal
• Written: 1945
• Studio/Live: Studio

Flanagan, William : Horror Movie

• Performers: Paul Sperry (Tenor); Irma Vallecillo (Piano)
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Vocal
• Studio/Live: Studio

Carter, Elliott : Three Poems of Robert Frost :: The Rose Family

• Performers: Paul Sperry (Tenor); Irma Vallecillo (Piano)
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Vocal
• Written: 1943
• Studio/Live: Studio

Lauridsen, Morten : And what of love

• Performers: Paul Sperry (Tenor); Irma Vallecillo (Piano)
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Form: Vocal
• Studio/Live: Studio

Cowell, Henry : Who wrote this fiendish Rite of Spring?

• Performers: Paul Sperry (Tenor); Irma Vallecillo (Piano)
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Vocal
• Studio/Live: Studio

Bolcom, William : Cabaret Songs (12), Vol 1 and 2 :: no 4, Waitin'

• Performers: Paul Sperry (Tenor); Irma Vallecillo (Piano)
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Form: Vocal
• Written: 1977-1985
• Studio/Live: Studio

Musto, John : Shadow of the Blues

• Performers: Paul Sperry (Tenor); Irma Vallecillo (Piano)
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Form: Vocal
• Written: 1987
• Studio/Live: Studio

Beaser, Robert : Mountain Songs :: Quicksilver

• Performers: Paul Sperry (Tenor); Irma Vallecillo (Piano)
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Form: Vocal
• Written: 1984
• Studio/Live: Studio

Rorem, Ned : For Poulenc

• Performers: Paul Sperry (Tenor); Irma Vallecillo (Piano)
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Vocal
• Written: 1963
• Studio/Live: Studio

Talma, Louise : Leap before you look

• Performers: Paul Sperry (Tenor); Irma Vallecillo (Piano)
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Vocal
• Written: 1945
• Studio/Live: Studio

Barber, Samuel : Despite and Still, Op. 41 :: no 4, Solitary Hotel

• Performers: Paul Sperry (Tenor); Irma Vallecillo (Piano)
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Vocal
• Written: 1967
• Studio/Live: Studio

Griffes, Charles Tomlinson : Poems (3), Op. 11 :: The Lament of Ian the Proud

• Performers: Paul Sperry (Tenor); Irma Vallecillo (Piano)
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Vocal
• Written: 1918
• Studio/Live: Studio

Talma, Louise : Rain Song

• Performers: Paul Sperry (Tenor); Irma Vallecillo (Piano)
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Vocal
• Written: 1973
• Studio/Live: Studio

Dougherty, Celius : The bird and the beast

• Performers: Paul Sperry (Tenor); Irma Vallecillo (Piano)
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Vocal
• Studio/Live: Studio

Rorem, Ned : Spring

• Performers: Paul Sperry (Tenor); Irma Vallecillo (Piano)
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Vocal
• Written: 1947
• Studio/Live: Studio

Billings, William : David's Lamentation

• Performers: Paul Sperry (Tenor); Irma Vallecillo (Piano)
• Period Time: Classical
• Form: Choral
• Written: by 1778
• Studio/Live: Studio

Carter, Elliott : Three Poems of Robert Frost :: Dust of Snow

• Performers: Paul Sperry (Tenor); Irma Vallecillo (Piano)
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Vocal
• Written: 1943
• Studio/Live: Studio

Foster, Stephen : Why, no-one to love

• Performers: Paul Sperry (Tenor); Irma Vallecillo (Piano)
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Vocal
• Written: 1862
• Studio/Live: Studio

Swenson, Warren : The Lepidoptera Waltz

• Performers: Paul Sperry (Tenor); Irma Vallecillo (Piano)
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Vocal
• Studio/Live: Studio

Yeston, Maury : I Don't Wanna Rock and Roll

• Performers: Paul Sperry (Tenor); Irma Vallecillo (Piano)
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Form: Vocal
• Studio/Live: Studio