American Classics - Edmond Dédé: Chicago, Etc / Rosenberg

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Label
Naxos
Release Date
March 1, 2000
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      DEDE
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Hot Springs Music Festival Symphony Orche
    • PERFORMER
      Jennifer, Emily, Foster, Brandon, Eagen, Anonymous, Brack
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      March 01, 2000
    • UPC
      636943903827
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      8559038
    • LABEL
      Naxos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    Works ⌄

    1. Chicago

      Composer: Edmond Dédé

      Ensemble: Hot Springs Music Festival Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Richard Rosenberg

    2. Tond les chiens, coup les chats

      Composer: Edmond Dédé

      Ensemble: Hot Springs Music Festival Voices

      Performer: David Sachs (Piano)

      Conductor: Richard Rosenberg

    3. Merliton fin de siècle

      Composer: Edmond Dédé

      Ensemble: Hot Springs Music Festival Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Richard Rosenberg

    4. Rêverie champêtre

      Composer: Edmond Dédé

    5. En chasse

      Composer: Eugène Arcade Dédé

      Ensemble: Hot Springs Music Festival Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Richard Rosenberg

    6. Mephisto masqué

      Composer: Edmond Dédé

    7. Battez aux champs

      Composer: Edmond Dédé

      Ensemble: Hot Springs Music Festival Voices

      Conductor: Richard Rosenberg

    8. El Pronunciamento

      Composer: Edmond Dédé

    9. Cora La Bordelaise

      Composer: Edmond Dédé

      Ensemble: Hot Springs Music Festival Voices

      Performer: David Sachs (Piano)

      Conductor: Richard Rosenberg

    10. Mon pauvre couer

      Composer: Edmond Dédé

      Performer: Emily Eagen (Soprano)

    11. Chicago

      Composer: Edmond Dédé

      Performer: Gary Hammond (Piano), Mary Scott Spry (Piano)

    12. Mon Sous Off!

      Composer: Edmond Dédé

      Ensemble: Hot Springs Music Festival Voices

      Performer: David Sachs (Piano)

      Conductor: Richard Rosenberg

    13. Françoise et Tortillard

      Composer: Edmond Dédé

      Ensemble: Hot Springs Music Festival Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Brandon Brack (Tenor), Jennifer Foster (Soprano)

      Conductor: Richard Rosenberg

    14. Mon Sous Off!cier

      Composer: Edmond Dédé

      Ensemble: Hot Springs Music Festival Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Richard Rosenberg

    15. Mephisto masqué

      Composer: Edmond Dédé

      Ensemble: Hot Springs Music Festival Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Kabin Thomas (Tuba)

      Conductor: Richard Rosenberg


Like many jazz composers today, Edmund Dédé (1827-1901) was an American composer who found success only after emigrating to Paris. Born in New Orleans, the son of free Creoles of color who came to the Louisiana city from the French West Indies around 1809, Dédé studied clarinet under his father, a bandmaster, and subsequently violin and theory with several other European and free black musicians. His 1852 song 'Mon pauvre coeur' ('My poor heart') is the oldest surviving piece of sheet music by a New Orleans' Creole of color. Five years later Dédé left for Paris, where he composed not only light cabaret music but also ballets, operettas, string quartets, overtures, and a cantata. His music was published and he was accepted as a member of French artistic societies. His return to New Orleans in 1893 was brief, for he found the prejudice and segregation intolerable.
The selection of Dédé's output recorded on this disc represents the genres in which he was most prolific: waltzes, polkas, songs for solo voice and choruses, and piano music. The quality of the dances is as high as that of the Viennese Strausses, and the vocal pieces are every bit as endearing as those of Stephen Foster. The performances, stemming from the 1999 Hot Springs Music Festival, are exceptional; director Richard Rosenberg and Naxos are to be commended for bring this engaging music to disc.