CD: Songs and song cycles by American women

Songs and Cycles
Contemporary American Women Composers

Music for soprano and piano and a work for two sopranos, oboe and piano. Linda McNeil, soprano; Linda True, piano; Kathy McNeil, coloratura soprano; Stephanie Shapiro, oboe. Leonarda CD #LE357. Duration: 51:20.

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Songs & Song Cycles by American Women	Samples	Artists
Emma Lou Diemer (b. Kansas City, Missouri, 1927) 1. Strings in the earth and air (1:16) (James Joyce) 2. The Caller (1:51) (Dorothy Diemer Hendry) 3. One Perfect Rose (2:30) (Dorothy Parker) 4. Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? (2:15) (Shakespeare)	1. mp3	Linda McNeil, soprano Carolyn True, piano
Flicka Rahn (b. Corpus Christi, Texas, 1944) 5. Vicarious (2:02) (Amy Lowell) 6. Shore Grass (2:02) (Amy Lowell	6. mp3	soprano and piano
Katherine Freiberger (b. Mineral Wells, Texas, 1927) The Coffee-Pot Songs (7:31) (Aileen Fisher) 7. The Coffee Pot Face, Otherwise, I Never Had A Pony, Stars, Mioon, Dreams, Rainy Day 8. Winter Apples (6:57) (Charlie Langdon)	8. mp3	Linda McNeil, soprano Kathy McNeil, coloratura soprano Stephanie Shapiro, oboe Carolyn True, piano
Libby Larsen (b. Wilmington, Delaware, 1950) Songs from Letters (13:34) (Calamity Jane to her daughter Janey, 1880-1902) 9. So like your Father's 10. He never misses (1880) 11. A man can love two women (1880) 12. A working woman (1882-1893); All I have (1902)	10. mp3	soprano and piano
Elizabeth R. Austin (b. Baltimore, MD, 1938) Sonnets from the Portuguese (11:23) (Elizabeth Barrett Brownig) 13. The face of all the world is changed, I think. 14. Say over again, and yet once over again. 15. Unlike are we, unlike, 0 princely Heart! 16. First time he kissed me. 17. How do I love thee?	13. mp3	soprano and piano

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Production: Recorded by: Bob Catlin at the Musical Arts Center of San Antonio, Texas, January 2008. DDD. Cover Art: "My Secret Garden" by Linda McNeil. Graphic Design: Marnie Hall.

Rights: Copyright: Linda McNeil, 2009. Agent and distributor: Leonarda Productions, Inc. Music Publishers: Diemer and Rahn songs are from Art Songs by American Women Composers published by Southern Music Company. Letters from Calamity Jane: Oxford University Press. The Coffee-Pot Face: Willis Music Company/Hal Leonard.

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