Happy Flag Day! Last Friday Elizabeth Saunders, David Barron and I began recording Ives songs. We will do studio recordings of the entire Ives Vocal Marathon. Details about this unique project can be found on the IVM website:
I am having trouble updating the IVM blog, so I will blog briefly about these recording sessions on this site until blogging can begin again at the other site.
We are working at Systems Two Recording Studios in Brooklyn, which has one of the three or so best pianos I have ever played in my life. We were scheduled for six hours, and we used all the time. However, everyone was pretty tired by the end, so in the future I’m going to schedule five-hour chunks. We planned to get twenty-five songs in the can. Instead, we got twenty-one. Still, not bad for a day’s work—about 10% of the total. These performances will eventually be available on-line, and of course I will keep readers of this blog posted about our progress.
Beth recorded the following songs:
To Edith
Two Little Flowers
Evidence
The Children’s Hour
The Light That Is Felt
Berceuse
Allegro
Night of Frost in May
Afterglow
David recorded:
Walking
The Cage
Because of You
Thoreau
Slow March
The Side Show
Abide With Me
Tarrant Moss
Marie (the first version, in German)
Minnelied
Ich grolle nicht
In Flanders Fields
There was a bit of time left over, so I recorded four brief improvisations. I have listened to the complete sessions, and the product is very good. We resume recording at the end of the month—two weeks to practice!
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