Songs of Smaller Creatures and Other American Choral Works

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Label
Cedille
Release Date
June 26, 2012
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      BETINIS KESSELMAN WHITACRE
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Grant Park Chorus
    • PERFORMER
      Bell
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      June 26, 2012
    • UPC
      735131913126
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      CDR 131
    • LABEL
      Cedille
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Choral - Sacred
    Works ⌄

    1. I. The Bees' Song

      Composer: Abbie Betinis

      Ensemble: Grant Park Chorus

      Conductor: Christopher Bell

    2. II. A noiseless, patient spider

      Composer: Abbie Betinis

      Ensemble: Grant Park Chorus

      Conductor: Christopher Bell

    3. III. Envoi

      Composer: Abbie Betinis

      Ensemble: Grant Park Chorus

      Conductor: Christopher Bell

    4. No. 1. To make a prairie

      Composer: Lee Kesselman

      Ensemble: Grant Park Chorus

      Conductor: Christopher Bell

    5. No. 2. A Bee his burnished Carriage

      Composer: Lee Kesselman

      Ensemble: Grant Park Chorus

      Conductor: Christopher Bell

    6. No. 3. Bee! I'm expecting you!

      Composer: Lee Kesselman

      Ensemble: Grant Park Chorus

      Conductor: Christopher Bell

    7. When David Heard

      Composer: Eric Whitacre

      Ensemble: Grant Park Chorus

      Conductor: Christopher Bell

    8. No. 1. Now by this moon, before this moon shall wane

      Composer: Stacy Garrop

      Ensemble: Grant Park Chorus

      Conductor: Christopher Bell

    9. No. 2. Time does not bring relief; you all have lied

      Composer: Stacy Garrop

      Ensemble: Grant Park Chorus

      Conductor: Christopher Bell

    10. No. 3. I shall forget you presently, my dear

      Composer: Stacy Garrop

      Ensemble: Grant Park Chorus

      Conductor: Christopher Bell

    11. Final Alice: Acrostic Song

      Composer: David Del Tredici

      Ensemble: Grant Park Chorus

      Conductor: Christopher Bell

    12. No. 1. When all things were in quiet silence (Christmas)

      Composer: Ned Rorem

      Ensemble: Grant Park Chorus

      Conductor: Christopher Bell

    13. No. 2. Before the morning star begotten (Epiphany)

      Composer: Ned Rorem

      Ensemble: Grant Park Chorus

      Conductor: Christopher Bell

    14. No. 3. Lay up for yourselves (Ash Wednesday)

      Composer: Ned Rorem

      Ensemble: Grant Park Chorus

      Conductor: Christopher Bell

    15. No. 4. Praise him who was crucified (Easter)

      Composer: Ned Rorem

      Ensemble: Grant Park Chorus

      Conductor: Christopher Bell

    16. No. 5. God Is gone up (Ascension)

      Composer: Ned Rorem

      Ensemble: Grant Park Chorus

      Conductor: Christopher Bell

    17. No. 6. Today the Holy Spirit appeared (Pentecost)

      Composer: Ned Rorem

      Ensemble: Grant Park Chorus

      Conductor: Christopher Bell

    18. No. 7. Rejoice we all in the Lord (All Saints)

      Composer: Ned Rorem

      Ensemble: Grant Park Chorus

      Conductor: Christopher Bell

    19. No. 1. Abe

      Composer: Paul Crabtree

      Ensemble: Grant Park Chorus

      Conductor: Christopher Bell

    20. No. 2. Lisa

      Composer: Paul Crabtree

      Ensemble: Grant Park Chorus

      Conductor: Christopher Bell

    21. No. 3. Homer

      Composer: Paul Crabtree

      Ensemble: Grant Park Chorus

      Conductor: Christopher Bell

    22. No. 4. Marge

      Composer: Paul Crabtree

      Ensemble: Grant Park Chorus

      Conductor: Christopher Bell

    23. No. 5. Homer

      Composer: Paul Crabtree

      Ensemble: Grant Park Chorus

      Conductor: Christopher Bell

    24. Sleep

      Composer: Eric Whitacre

      Ensemble: Grant Park Chorus

      Conductor: Christopher Bell


Conducted by Christopher Bell, Chicago’s Grant Park Chorus, “as fine a symphony chorus as any to be found anywhere in the nation” (Chicago Tribune), makes its a cappella CD debut with an all-American program of eight imaginative, moving, and sometimes whimsical works written between 1975 and 25, including four world-premiere recordings. Premieres include Abbie Betinis’s Toward Sunshine, Toward Freedom: Songs of Smaller Creatures. Lee Kesselman’s Buzzings: Three Pieces about Bees offers vignettes based on Emily Dickinson poems. Paul Crabtree’s Five Romantic Miniatures is a set of affectionate tributes to characters from The Simpsons animated TV series. The chorus made its commercial recording debut performing with the Grant Park Orchestra on the 211 Cedille Records release The Pulitzer Project, which attracted international attention. Chicago’s New City said the CD “spectacularly showcased” the chorus’s “remarkable transparency and flexibility.”