From the American Music Recordings Collection (AMRC)

This AMRC CD celebrates the music of five American women composers

from the 19th and 20th centuries.

They are examples of music by women who had the gift of composition

and their music deserves to be better known.

All the tracks are from the AMRC archive, an extensive library

of recorded music from earlier America.

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The CD includes Five Premiere Recordings

and over half of the performances were recorded in live concerts.

These are the five American women composers featured on this CD:

 

 

1 - Amy (Marcy Cheney) Beach (1867–1944)

 

 

2 - Mrs. E.A. (Susan McFarland) Parkhurst (1836-1918)

 

 

3 - Katherine Kennicott Davis (1892-1980)

 

 

 

4 - Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901–1953)

 

5- Sister Martha Jane Anderson (1844-1897)

 

Three Shaker women composers shown in this picture

(picture courtesy of Hamilton College Shaker Collection)

(left to right) Sister Martha Jane Anderson, Sister Grace Bowers, Eldress Anna White

Some of the earliest American religious music was composed by Shaker women

in the 18th and 19th centuries and

some of their beautiful songs and hymns are on this AMRC CD:

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Five American Women Composers (AMRC CD 0040)

1. Piano Quintet in F# minor (first movement,Op. 67, 1909) - Amy Beach

2. Piano Quintet in F# minor (second movement) - Amy Beach

3. Piano Quintet in F# minor (third movement) - Amy Beach

4. +Let this mind be in you (1924) - Amy Beach

5. Grand Mass in Eb Major (1892) - Qui tollis peccata mundi - Amy Beach

6. Grand Mass in Eb Major (1892) - Quoniam tu solus sanctus - Amy Beach

7. +Funeral March for President Abraham Lincoln (1865) - Mrs. E.A. (Susan McFarland) Parkhurst

8. +In the bleak midwinter (1933) - Katherine Kennicott Davis

9. +I sing of a maiden (1933)- Katherine Kennicott Davis

10. Cindy (1936) - arr. Ruth Crawford Seeger

11. Turtle Dove (1936) - arr. Ruth Crawford Seeger

12. Frog Went A-Courtin' (1936) - arr. Ruth Crawford Seeger

13. Sweet Betsy From Pike (1936) - arr. Ruth Crawford Seeger

14. I Ride An Old Paint (1936) - arr. Ruth Crawford Seeger

15. Give Good Gifts (ca. 1893) - Sister Martha Jane Anderson

+ = Premiere Recording

 

Nos. 1-6, 8-9 were recorded in the 1985 Old Stoughton Musical Society Concert with these performers:

Quintet:

Anne Hooper, violin
Ann Christiansen, violin
Kim Mackin, viola
Jolene Kessl, cello
Edward B. Wood, piano

Soloists:

Linda Brookfield, soprano
David Benjamin, bass
Richard W. Hill, organist

Old Stoughton Musical Society Chorus
Edward B. Wood, piano accompanist
Earl Eyrich, Conductor

 

 

Nos. 7, 10-14 on the CD were performed by pianist, Margaret Ulmer,

and also available on this highly rated CD --

American Places - Musical Travels (AMRC 0028)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Praise for this CD from a classical music listener:

I’ve been pleased to hear the excerpts from Amy Beach’s “Mass in Eb.”

The two Mass selections are quite pretty and should be appreciated by more people.

 The Parkhurst “Funeral March for President Lincoln” is appropriate for that time.

 I was not familiar with either of the Davis songs and didn’t know her composition of “In the Bleak Midwinter” existed.

I’ve always loved the traditional Christmas carol setting.

 I like Ruth Crawford Seeger’s piano arrangements of the five folk songs.  Hadn’t heard them previously.  

She had a productive life, as did others in that talented family.

“Give Good Gifts One To Another” is a lovely song that deserves more notice.

 No doubt you are helping it along.

As usual, you have done an excellent job to enhance these old recordings.

-- James

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