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CD and DVD Releases
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Blended Together: Shaker Hymns and Songs [limited supply]
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For the Love of Zion -- Simplicity Vocal Quartet
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The Humble Heart -- Various Performers
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The River of Love -- New England Voices
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"We Find No Harm in Dancing" -- Shaker Marches and Dances
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The Shakers On Television, 1966 - 1991
These two CD releases on Rounder Records, with 40 Shaker spirituals each, are the most extensive ones featuring the Shakers singing and speaking about their music...
Early Shaker Spirituals (Rounder)
A CD collection of 40 Shaker spirituals sung by The United Society of Shakers, Sabbathday Lake, Maine. Many of the spirituals are sung by Sister R. Mildred Barker, the foremost Shaker singer of her time. The spirituals include laboring songs, gift songs, prayer songs, a hymn and anthem and several interviews with Sister Mildred Barker. Extensive notes and texts for all the music are provided by Daniel W. Patterson.
You can order this CD from Amazon.com here:
Let Zion Move: Music of the Shakers (Rounder)
This 2 CD set includes 40 Shaker spirituals sung by the Shakers from Canterbury, New Hampshire and Sabbathday Lake, Maine. It includes a history of Shaker music narrated by Sister R. Mildred Barker and Sister Lillian Phelps. There are also interviews with Sister R. Mildred Barker, Eldress Bertha Lindsay, and Sister Lillian Phelps.
The first interviews were done in 1960 by William (Bill) Randle. Later interviews were conducted in 1972 and 1980 by Roger Hall, who has edited and written the notes for this unique historical collection.
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Let Zion Move: Music of the Shakers
The CD set includes an attractive 72 page illustrated booklet with examples of Shaker music and the words to all 40 Shaker spirituals plus a bibliography and discography, compiled by Roger Hall. Many of the hymns are from the last printed Shaker hymnal. To read about this 1908 Shaker hymnal, go to:
Shaker Music History - 20th century
Simple Gifts - Shaker Chants and Spirituals (Erato)
This best-selling CD
features the Boston Camerata, directed by Joel Cohen, with the Schola Cantorum,
and joined by
the
Shakers from Sabbathday Lake, Maine.
See track listings and order at this link:
Simple Gifts: Shaker Chants and Spirituals
Learn how Joel Cohen found out about Shaker music,
which led to the Boston Camerata best-selling CD, Simple Gifts.
Find out here
Read the notes for the Boston Camerata CD here
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Blended Together: Shaker Hymns and Songs (PineTree Music 1013)
A collection of Shaker songs and hymns, including rare interviews and singing by four Shakers: Eldress Bertha Lindsay, Sister Lillian Phelps, Sister Mildred Barker, and Sister Frances Carr.
This CD title of "Blended Together" is named after a favorite Shaker song by Elder Joseph Holden (1851-1919) from Mt. Lebanon, New York, his portrait is shown here:
Track Titles:
1. Song: Blended together as one we stand - Sister Mildred Barker & Sister Frances Carr
2. Hymn: I must live must have my being - Sister Mildred Barker
3. Song: O my sweet Shaker home - Eldress Bertha Lindsay
4. Song: 'Tis the gift to be simple - Eldress Bertha Lindsay's 90th birthday party, 1987
5. Interview with Eldress Bertha Lindsay, 1972 (letteral notation)
6. Interview with Sister Lillian Phelps, 1972 (music training)
7. Interview with Eldress Bertha continued (meeting house worship)
8. Interview with Eldress Bertha continued (Shaker marches)
9. Cleveland TV interview with the Shakers, 1974
10. Mother Ann's Song, 1783
11. In Yonder Valley, Father James Whittaker,1787 (earliest Shaker song with words & music)
12. Hymn: More Love, ca. 1872
13. Christmas hymn: Glory unto God we'll sing, 1852
14. Gospel hymn: Prayer Universal, 1890s
15. Dance song: Simple Gifts, Elder Joseph Brackett, 1848
16. +Welcome, Welcome, Rosetta Cummings, 1869
17. +Holy Habitation, 1848
18. +The Humble Heart, Sister Eunice Wyeth & Elder Thomas Hammond, ca. 1820
19. +Voyage to Canaan, Elder Richard McNemar, ca. 1810
20. +Celestial Praises, 1841
21. +Christian Love, 1881
22. +My Shepherd, 1926 - poem by Sister Mildred Barker
23.
+A New Year's Prayer, 1921 - poem by Sister Mildred Barker
24. +A Prayer, 1922 - poem by Sister Mildred Barker
25. +May I Softly Walk, 1869
26. +Simple Gifts, 1848
27. +A Welcome Song, 1869
28. +Invitation to Zion, 1846
29. +Invitation to Souls, 1846
30. +We Will All Go Home With You, 1862
+ = music arranged or composed by Roger Hall,
included in the Music Supplement of
A Guide to Shaker Music
Shaker mansucript of "Blended Together" in letteral notation
This CD is available in limited supply (single copies only).
To order Blended Together - Shaker Hymns and Songs, go to the
I Am Filled With Heavenly Treasures (New World Records)
Featuring 39 tracks of Shaker spirituals performed by The Enfield Shaker Singers, directed by Mary Ann Haagen, who has also arranged a few tunes. It includes many spirituals recorded for the first time, such as the title song, Otis Sawyer's "The Closing Day," and David A. Buckingham's magnificent anthem, "Harmony of Angels." All the Shaker spirituals are performed in unaccompanied performances by the chorus and soloists. This CD is well worth adding to your collection.
To see track listings and order from Amazon, click this link:
I Am Filled With Heavenly Treasures
Joy of Angels (Sampler Records Ltd.)
This CD features 38 Shaker spirituals and is the only one devoted to music for Christmas and the New Year, many of them recorded for the first time anywhere. The featured performers are: Randy Folger, Colleen Liggett, Kathy Leigh Johnson, Mitzie Collins, The Eastman Bach Children's Chorus, and The Sampler Chorus. The CD title is taken from the opening Shaker Christmas hymn: "Hail, hail the beautiful morn" by Elmina Phillips from North Union, Ohio. There is an accompanying songbook with all the music and extensive notes about the music and Shaker Christmas rituals by Roger Hall, plus a list of recordings of Aaron Copland's arrrangements of "Simple Gifts" .
You can order from Sampler Records by clicking on this link:
Joy of Angels: Shaker Spirituals for Christmas and the New Year
Love is Little (Sampler Records Ltd.)
A collection of 36 Shaker spirituals representing all of the 18 major Shaker communities, performed by Roger Hall, Mitzie Collins and other soloists, and The Sampler Chorus. It is titled after the Shaker humility song from South Union, Kentucky. The collection includes Shaker music in their original versions from Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Hampshire, Maine, Ohio and Kentucky. There is also an accompanying songbook with all the music from the CD, plus music notes, a list of titles from the Shaker Song Series (1981-1996), and a bibliography.
You can order from Sampler Records by clicking on this link:
Love is Little: A Sampling of Shaker Spirituals
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For the Love of Zion (PineTree Music 1011)
This CD has 30 Shaker spirituals beautifully performed by a vocal quartet known as "Simplicity" (Alyssa Daudt, Amy Stevens, Ian Sanchez, Joey Chen), directed by Leah R. Stein. It has many Shaker songs and hymns not available anywhere else. The spirituals have been sensitively arranged by Jack Bomer, an American musician living in Vienna, Austria.
To hear several samples from this CD (using Real Player), click on the titles in the box...
These are the track titles:
1. We Have Found the Promised Savior
(Lebanon, New York, 1875)
2. Sweet Love (unknown community)
3. Good Brethren From the Holy Mount (Elsa Parson,
Enfield, Connecticut, 1843)
4. Here Take This Lovely Flower (Elmira Adams,
Harvard, Massachusetts, 1847)
5. O What Pretty Souls (Joshua Bennett, Enfield, Connecticut, 1837)
6. The Humble Heart (Eunice Wyeth and Thomas Hammond, Harvard, Massachusetts, 1820)
7. O Brethren Ain't You Happy (Clarissa Jacobs, Lebanon, about 1847)
8. Christ's Suffering (Canterbury, New Hampshire, date unknown)
9. My Love is My Mother (South Union, Kentucky, 1821)
10. The Rolling Deep (Polly Lawrence, Sodus, New York, 1826)
11. I Never Did Believe (Betsy Bates, Lebanon, New York, 1829)
12. Lay Me Low (Addah Z. Potter, Lebanon, New York, 1838)
13. I Will Bow and Be Simple (Mary Hazard, Lebanon, New York, 1840s)
14. The Hallelujah Hymn (Polly M. Rupe, Pleasant Hill, Kentucky)
15. I Have a Soul to be Saved or Lost (Enfield, New Hampshire, 1865)
16. Mother's Love is Like an Ocean (Assanath Wilhite, South Union, Kentucky, 1820s)
17. Mother's Mantle (Lebanon, New York, 1821)
18. More Love (Canterbury, New Hampshire, about 1870)
19. Slow Song (unknown community)
20. Pretty Love and Union (John Whitbey, Pleasant Hill, Kentucky, 1824)
21. Living Souls Let's Be Marching (Tyringham, Massachusetts)
22. I'm On My Way to Zion (unknown community)
23. Love is Little (South Union, Kentucky, 1834)
24. A New Zion (Alfred, Maine, 1837)
25. Virgins Cloth'd in a Clean White Garment (Sabbathday Lake, Maine, 1830s)
26. Low Within the Vale (Paulina Bryant, Pleasant Hill, Kentucky, 1850)
27. My Sweet Home in Zion (Otis Sawyer, Sabbathday Lake, Maine)
28. Brilliant Gem (Anna White , Lebanon, 1859)
29. Simple Gifts (Joseph Brackett, Alfred, Maine, 1848)
30. Earnest Petition (unknown community)
To order this For the Love of Zion CD and its accompanying songbook, go to the
Harp Music by Diane Schneider
From her series of soothing harp music, there are three CDs with Shaker song arrangements...
15 tracks of beautiful Christmas music arrangements by Diane Schneider, including "Lo How a Rose E'er Blooming" (2:36); "The First Noel" (3:03); "I Wonder As I Wander" (5:31); "Silent Night" (4:49).
There is also one Shaker Christmas hymn ("When Christ was of a Virgin Born" - 3:05) from the music collection:
Joy of Angels: Shaker Spirituals for Christmas and the New Year.
Harp of Hope
2008 POW! Award-winning instrumental CD
There are 17 tracks on this CD including such folk tunes as: "Greensleeves" (3:51),
"The Ash Grove" (2:47), "Kum Ba Yah" (2:22). There are also hymns like "Abide With Me" (1:53), "Amazing Grace" (3:57), and "Nearer My God To Thee" (2:39). The Shaker song is the best known one: Elder Joseph Brackett's "Simple Gifts" (3:36) in a lovely arrangement by Diane Schneider. In addition to this music, there is a bonus track titled: "Angel's Wing" - described as "a 9-minute improvisation with floating, rhythmless arpeggios to induce relaxation." There is also an Animal Therapy Edition of this same CD "for soothing relief, deep sleep, and anti-anxiety with dogs, cats, birds, horses -- and their owners."
For more information, click on this link: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22539914/
This lovely CD of traditional songs of faith arranged by Diane Schneider includes three Shaker songs: "Love is Little" (2:45), "We Must Be Meek" (2:37), ""My Carnal Life I Will Lay Down." (3:35).
Also the CD includes such well known hymns as" "How Great Thou Art" (4:42); "What a Friend We Have in Jesus"; and "A Mighty Fortress is Our God" (3:00).
All the selections are "therapeutically arranged to calm anxiety,
stabilize heart rate, and encourage restful sleep."
To order these CDs, click on this link:
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The Humble Heart: Twenty-four Shaker Spirituals (PineTree Music 1012)
This CD has twenty-four Shaker spirituals -- compiled by Roger Hall.
Ten of these spirituals are recorded for the first time in new editions, such as "Mount Zion" (track 3); "Rights of Conscience" (track 4) ; "Ode to Contentment" (track 5) ; "A Dream" (track 9); "A Prayer for the Captive" (track 10); and the best known Shaker song, "Simple Gifts" (track 7)
There are also arrangements of twelve Shaker tunes, including "Gentle Words"; "Love is Little"; "Celestial Praises"; and "The Humble Heart."
The CD also includes exclusive interviews with Sister R. Mildred Barker of the Sabbathday Lake Shakers, Eldress Bertha Lindsay of the Canterbury Shakers, and composer Aaron Copland about his arrangements of "Simple Gifts."
In addition to the editions and arrangements, there is the World Premiere recording of Roger Hall's "Variations on a Shaker Marching Tune" (track 18) brilliantly performed by pianist David Hagan.
Track Titles:
1. +Song: Welcome, Welcome -- Rosetta Cummings, 1869
2. Dance Song: Come Life, Shaker Life-- Issachar Bates, 1835
3. Anthem: Mount Zion -- Issachar Bates, ca. 1815
4. Hymn: Rights of Conscience -- Issachar Bates, ca. 1810
5. Hymn: Ode to Contentment -- Issachar Bates, 1835
6. Song: March -- North Union, Ohio, 1847
7. Dance Song: Simple Gifts -- Joseph Brackett, 1848
8. Hymn: Doxology -- Oliver C. Hampton, 1850s
9. Song: A Dream -- Harvey L. Eades, 1860
10. Civil War Pacifist Hymn: A Prayer for the Captive -- Cecilia DeVere, 1862
11. Anthem: Millennial Praise-- James G. Russell, 1883)
12. +Humility Song: Gentle Words -- Polly M. Ruper, ca. 1867
13. +Humility Song: Love is Little -- South Union, KY, ca. 1834
14. +Hymn: Celestial Praises -- Canterbury, NH, 1841
15. +Round: Celestial Choir-- Canterbury, NH, 1840s
16. +Song: O Glory to God -- Alfred, Maine
17. +Song: May I Softly Walk -- Lebanon, NY, ca. 1869
18.+Variations on a Shaker Marching Tune -- David Hagan, pianist [World Premiere]
19. Interview with composer Aaron Copland, July, 1980
20. Interview with Sister Mildred Barker, Sabbathday Lake, Maine, December 1980
21. Hymn: The Shakers -- Richard McNemar, ca. 1810
22. Sister Mildred Barker1980 interview continued
23. Humility Song:
We Must Be Meek -- origin unknown
24. Eldress Bertha Lindsay's 90th birthday, Canterbury, NH, 1987/ Simple Gifts sung by her friends
25. Interview with Eldress Bertha Lindsay, March 1972 ("Simple Gifts" sung)
26. +Dance Song: Simple Gifts -- Joseph Brackett, Alfred, Maine, 1848
27. +Hymn: Holy Habitation -- text: Eunice Wyeth/ tune: Lebanon, ca. 1848
28. Song: Give Good Gifts - Mt. Lebanon, New York, 1890s
29. +Hymn: The Humble Heart (text: Eunice Wyeth/ tune: Thomas Hammond, Harvard, MA)-- arr R. Hall
30. +Round: We Will All Go Home With You (Canterbury, NH, 1862)
+ = arrangement or composition by Roger Hall
You can order the "Love is Little" SATB arrangement from PineTree Music
Nos. 1, 15,18, 22, 26 - 30 in A Guide to Shaker Music (6th edition, PineTree Press)
Nos. 5, 7, 10, 12 - 14 in Love is Little: A Sampling of Shaker Spirituals (Sampler Records)
To order the CD, The Humble Heart - Twenty-four Shaker Spirituals, go to the
NEW!
The River of Love:
Music of the Shakers and Music Based on Shaker Themes (Albany Records)
Featuring original Shaker melodies and arrangements by William Cutter, Aaron Copland , and World Premiere recordings of a cantata by Jacob Druckman, and Eric Sawyer's The Humble Heart: A Cantata for Youth.
The performers on this CD include these soloists:
Emily Browder, soprano
Pamela Dellal, mezzo-soprano
Andrew Leonard, tenor
Robert Honeysucker, baritone
Bill Geha, piano
Malcolm Halliday, conductor
The CD features the New England Voices, a performing and educational ensemble founded in 1998 and including youth and adult singers and instrumentalists.
Assisting in the Shaker music research was musicologist Roger Hall.
The founder and director, Nancy Annis McDowell, writes the following:
"The program is grouped thematically for the most part, songs about Mother Ann, songs about love, four-part spirituals, and hymns chosen by contemporary composers for their works based on Shaker themes. The River of Love perpetuates a new genre of American music begun by Jacob Druckman. Music based on Themes of the American Shakers. This recording by New England Voices, the first of its kind, is especially suited for youth as both performers and listeners."
Participants in the recording project (left to right):
Musicologist & Singer Roger Hall;
New England Voices Director & Singer Nancy McDowell;
Composer Eric Sawyer.
(photo by Gail Hall)
New England Voices Combined Choirs
(photo by Gail Hall)
Track Titles:
1. Prayer Universal -- Combined Choirs
2. Simple Gifts (arranged by Aaron Copland) -- Pamela Dellal, mezzo-soprano; Bill Geha, piano
3. A Mince Pie or a Puding (New Lebanon, NY) -- Emily Browder, Nancy McDowell, Pamela Dellal, Andrew Leonard
4. From a Shaker Hymnal: There's a Light (arranged by William Cutter) -- Combined Choirs; Amy Carroll, flute
5. From a Shaker Hymnal: Let Zion Move (arranged by William Cutter) -- Combined Choirs; Amy Carroll, flute
6. From a Shaker Hymnal: I Will Go On My Way (arranged by William Cutter) --
Combined Choirs; Amy Carroll, flute
7. Drink Ye -- Andrew Leonard, tenor
8. I Love Mother -- Corinne Candilis, child soloist
9. Mother Ann's Song -- Michael Pritchard, bass
10. Mother Ann's Closet -- Emily Browder, soprano
11. Dimission of the Devil -- Robert Honeysucker, baritone
12. The Humble Heart
-- Pamela Dellal, mezzo-soprano
13. The Humble Heart: A Cantata For Youth [Eric Sawyer, 2006/ World Premiere Recording]
--
Emily Browder, Pamela Dellal, Andrew Leonard, Robert Honeysucker, Combined Choirs
14.
More Love -- Emily Browder, soprano
15. Invitation to the River of Love -- Robert Honeysucker, baritone
16. Love is Little -- Jennifer Shaw. soprano
17. Pretty Home -- Grace Long, soprano
18. A Snag of it or a Handful of Gospel Love -- Children's Chorus
19. Tuvan Throat Singing -- Thomas Erick Summer, tenor
20. Adagio in Lydian Mode from String Quartet No. 2 (Eric Sawyer) -- Karen Oosterbaan, violin; Frederick Bednarz, violin; Thomas Fajaro, viola; Hazel Gietheim, cello
21. Sweet Summer Land -- Combined Choirs
22. I'll Tell Thee of Heaven -- Combined Choirs
23. I Hunder and Thirst -- Laura Stanfield Pritchard, soprano
24. I Know How to Pay
-- Philip Candilis, bass
25. On Zion's Holy Ground -- Diane Taraz Shriver, soprano
26. Work for the Harvest -- Combined Choirs
27. In My Father's House -- Combined Choirs
28. Come Life, Shaker Life -- Combined Choirs
29. O Heaven of Heavens -- Emily Browder, soprano
30. One, Two, Three Steps -- Emily Browder, Nancy McDowell, sopranos
31. Little
Trumpet -- Thomas Erick Summer, tenor
32. I've Set My Face for Zion's Kingdom -- Combined Choirs
33. Funeral Hymn -- Pamela Dellal, mezzo-soprano
34. The Simple Gifts: A Cantata Based on Themes of the American Shakers [Jacob Druckman, 1954/ World Premiere Recording] --
Emily Browder, soprano; Philip Candilis,
bass; Pamela Dellal, mezzo-soprano;
Andrew Leonard, tenor
35. Farewell Song -- Thomas Erik Summer, tenor
36. I Will Bow and Be Simple -- Combined Choirs
37. Living Souls Let's Be Marching -- Combined Choirs
You can receive The River of Love CD by making a tax deductible contribution
to New England Voices.
Your gift will help further this new genre in helping composer commissions for new works,
the completion of a book for schools, and a one hour video documentary.
For more details, write to:
nevoices@comcast.net or nevoices@Gmail.com
Three Instrumental CDs (Gourd Music)
A series featuring very appealing medleys of Shaker melodies, arranged by William Coulter (guitar) and Barry Phillips (cello) and joined by an ensemble of talented folk musicians.
These CDs for ideal for relaxing listening. To see track titles, click on the links.
Simple Gifts (GM 106)
(11 tracks)
Tree of Life (GM 114)
(12 tracks)
Music On The Mountain (GM 124)
(15 tracks)
This DVD was produced by Mary Ann Haagen, Musical Director of The Enfield Shaker Singers,
She has written the following information for the DVD:
The Enfield Shaker Singers are a group of amateur and professional musicians who have been singing together for 20 years with the goal of discovering, learning and presenting the songs and dances of the American Shakers. The Singers' extensive repertoire is drawn from Shaker written and aural accounts. Shaker dance is a unique American worship tradition in which marching, gesturing and dancing were a powerful expression of faith and an affirmation of communal life.
The DVD has two sections. The first one is a twenty minute film demonstration of the dances and marching, with commentary by Mary Ann Haagen.
The second or extra section has complete versions of the nineteen songs and dances.
Also included is an insert booklet with the complete source information
for each of the songs and dances.
This is the list of songs:
1. Come Let Us Flock
2. I Am Filled With Heavenly Treasures
3. I Love to See a Living Soul
4. I
Love to Sing and Worship God
5. In Love and Peace
6. Let Me Have Mother's Gospel
7. Of Mother's Love I Want a Crumb
8. O Ho The Pretty Chain
9. O The Simple Gifts of God
10. O Will You Sing Another Song
11. Our Support We'll Gather In
12. To A Fullness
13. Turn to the Right
14. We Will Go Forth
15. Where My Hand Has Spread Around
16. With A New Tongue
17. With Every Simple Gift
18. With the Lamb of Mt. Zion
19. Yielding and Simple
The songs and dances are well performed by The Enfield Shaker Singers in Shaker dress,
under Mary Ann Haagen's authoritative direction.
She has collected the song and dance research and is also one of the performers.
The production was edited by David Millstone.
This filmed demonstration consists of re-creations based on dance sources by 19th century Shakers.
There are also several songs with motioning from the singing of two 20th century Shakers:
Sister R. Mildred Barker and Eldress Marguerite Frost.
The Shakers no longer do the dancing and marching, having ceased doing them
in the early 20th century.
Yet, there continues to be considerable interest in this aspect of Shaker culture.
For those who are interested in how Shakers danced, marched and gestured,
this is the most informative
and essential resource.
Highly recommended.
--Roger Hall
For information how to order, click on this website link:
Or call: 603-632-4372
Ken Burns and Shaker Music
Ken Burns is known for the very popular historical series on PBS television,
such as"The Civil War"; "Baseball"; and "Jazz."
One of his first documentary films he made was premiered on PBS in 1985 and titled:
"The Shakers"
It was beautifully photographed but did not tell much about the Shakers today.
Most of the film deals with the rise and fall of Shaker communities during the 19th and early 20th centuires. The Shakers from Canterbury, New Hampshire and Sabbathday Lake, Maine are featured in the film but not given much attention.
Unfortunately, very little music sung by the Shakers themselves was used on the soundtrack.
Most of the music was arranged by Jesse Carr and a CD
soundtrack was never released.
First issued on videotape, it is now available on DVD as...
Ken Burns' America: The Shakers
In 1999, Ken Burns produced another documentary shown on PBS which included some Shaker music, but it was not identified correctly.
The CD used the same title as the film...
Not for Ourselves Alone:
The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony
The DVD has the same title...
Not for Ourselves Alone:
The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton
& Susan B. Anthony
Included in this documentary film by Ken Burns and Paul Barnes is some Shaker music.
This soundtrack CD for Not for Ourselves Alone lists only one Shaker song:
"Good Evening My Friends" (track 8 of the CD).
Actually there are TWO Shaker songs included on this track:
"Good Evening, My Friends" (New Lebanon, New York, 1837)
"Mount Lebanon March" (New Lebanon, New York, 1822)
Both songs were published in the collection titled, The Happy Journey: Thirty-Five Shaker Spirituals. This collection was edited by Roger L. Hall, and published by The Fruitlands Museums in Harvard, Massachusetts in 1982. It is now out-of-print. Copies of the music from collection are available by request and payment of copying costs.
The two Shaker song arrangements used in Not for Ourselves Alone were made by William Coulter and Barry Phillips. This CD is one of the best recordings of Shaker instrumental arrangements available today. If you love simple and tasteful instrumental arrangements, then you should enjoy this CD...
A videotape and DVD-R has been compiled with
programs originally telecast between 1966 and 1991.
The earliest is a thirty minute black & white television program from 1966 on NET.
It is believed to be the earliest telecast featuring Shaker music and dancing, and
highlights the Shaker Village Work Group,
a summer program for teenagers in New Lebanon, New York.
The program also includes a brief interview with
Sister Mildred Barker from Sabbathday Lake, Maine.
This early television program is discussed in
Other television segments include interviews with
Eldress Bertha Lindsay at Canterbury, New Hampshire; and
Sister Mildred Barker, Sister Frances Carr, Brother Arnold Hadd at Sabbathday Lake, Maine.
Most of these programs are rare and hard-to-find anywhere else.
This VHS tape or DVD-R is for educational, non-commercial use only.
To inquire how to order a copy,
write to:
See also
Aaron Copland Meets The Shakers
American Music Recordings Collection
American Shaker Music (CD reviews)
Joseph Brackett's SIMPLE GIFTS
Shaker Music Collections and Songbooks
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Blended Together -
Shaker Hymns and Songs
The Humble Heart: Twenty-four Shaker Spirituals
I Am Filled With Heavenly Treasures
Joy of Angels: Shaker Spirituals for Christmas and the New Year
Let Zion Move: Music of the Shakers
Love is Little: A Sampling of Shaker Spirituals
Music On The Mountain
(instrumental arrangements)
The River of Love: Music of the Shakers and Music Based on Shaker Themes
Simple Gifts (instrumental arrangements)
Tree of Life (instrumental arrangements)
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