Dominick Argento: Postcard from Morocco

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Appalachian Christmas Story

Music: Ouvre ton coeur
Composer: Georges Bizet
Artists: Laura Claycomb, soprano; Marc Teicholz, guitar
Album: Open Your Heart
Label: Delos Productions DE3483
Street Date: November 13, 2015

Pre-Order on Amazon: http://amzn.to/1FRC629

This beguiling album is the first for Delos by brilliant American coloratura soprano Laura Claycomb. Best-known for her work in opera, she explores here an entirely different aspect of her artistry: a more intimate and personal interpretive approach featuring assorted art songs with guitar. And she has found an ideal partner in guitar wizard Marc Teicholz: her longtime collaborator and musical soul mate.

Our dazzling, yet subtly interactive duo undertakes a broad-ranging program of vocal music, either written originally for voice and guitar, or with accompaniments transcribed (mostly by Marc) for guitar. The array ranges from English-language settings by American eclectic Marc Blitzstein and British icon William Walton through treatments of French texts by Georges Bizet, Claude Debussy and the Hungarian exile Mátyás Seiber to Spanish and Portuguese settings by Manuel de Falla and Heitor Villa-Lobos.

Open Your Heart

Ouvre ton coeur

Bizet: Ouvre ton coeur

Soprano Patti Spain singing BWV 202, "Weichet Nur, betrübte Schatten" from a live performance at Round Top, TX on May 28th, 1995.

with 

Alan Austin and Laurie Stephens, violins
Barrett Sills, 'Cello
Keith Weber, Harpsichord

Patti Spain, BWV 202

This dazzling track is from an album that Prudence and Dan just added to and revised and which is available at:

https://danchouinard.com/

I think it's SENSATIONAL; gets right at the core of the style, Prudence with heart and clarity and Dan with that boundless imagination coupled with his unique ability to sound like he has three hands.  Simply MAGICAL!

3 's Wonderful

This is a performance of Benjamin Britten's
'REJOICE IN THE LAMB' at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church, Dallas, TX

Nora Henson, soprano; Thom Niel, countertenor; Dale Rhodes, tenor; George Eison, Baritone

Plus a bunch of other rep, including some radio stuff - must have been the source of the original cassette taping...!

East Dallas Christian Church Choir - Rejoice In The Lamb - Benjamin Britten

Recent GRAMMY-nominated [Best Opera Recording – 2010] recording producer Keith Weber is also a choral and orchestral conductor, vocal coach, organist, pianist, harpsichordist, and collaborator widely known for his musical versatility and excellence. 

He is currently Director of Music and Organist at Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church in Houston and is Artistic Director of Grace Song, Inc., the Texas 501 (c) 3 organization that presents captivating concerts of vocal chamber music, helps fine young American singers develop their careers and brings about the creation of exciting new music.

A native of western Pennsylvania, he holds a B.M., cum laude, in Organ Performance and Pedagogy from Southern Methodist University, an M.M. also from SMU and an M.S.M. from Perkins School of Theology. 

Keith was the founding Associate Musical Director of the Lyric Opera of Dallas; was Head Coach with the 2002-2005 Summer Festival, Opera In The Ozark; was Music Staff to four premieres of Houston Grand Opera [2013 and 2014), serves as a resource and vocal/career/life coach for dozens of young singers and works privately in the service of established, working singers across a variety of applications.

3 's Wonderful

Keith Weber and Friends

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