Howe: Songs and Duets / Maina, Dibbern, Leach

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Label
Toccata
Release Date
February 18, 2022
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Mary Howe
    • PERFORMER
      Courtney Maina, Christopher A. Leach, Mary Dibbern
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      February 18, 2022
    • UPC
      5060113446343
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      TOCC0634
    • LABEL
      Toccata
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. The Horseman

      Composer: Mary Howe

      Performer: Courtney Maina, Christopher A. Leach, Mary Dibbern

    2. Berceuse cosaque

      Composer: Mary Howe

      Performer: Courtney Maina, Mary Dibbern

    3. Chanson souvenir

      Composer: Mary Howe

      Performer: Christopher A. Leach, Mary Dibbern

    4. Reach

      Composer: Mary Howe

      Performer: Courtney Maina, Mary Dibbern

    5. Der Einsame

      Composer: Mary Howe

      Performer: Christopher A. Leach, Mary Dibbern

    6. Liebeslied

      Composer: Mary Howe

      Performer: Christopher A. Leach, Mary Dibbern

    7. Schlaflied

      Composer: Mary Howe

      Performer: Christopher A. Leach, Mary Dibbern

    8. Herbsstag

      Composer: Mary Howe

      Performer: Christopher A. Leach, Mary Dibbern

    9. The Ragpicker

      Composer: Mary Howe

      Performer: Christopher A. Leach, Mary Dibbern

    10. Chanson de Coulennes

      Composer: Mary Howe

      Performer: Courtney Maina, Christopher A. Leach, Mary Dibbern

    11. Now goes the light

      Composer: Mary Howe

      Performer: Courtney Maina, Mary Dibbern

    12. Am Flusse

      Composer: Mary Howe

      Performer: Courtney Maina, Mary Dibbern

    13. Die Götter

      Composer: Mary Howe

      Performer: Courtney Maina, Mary Dibbern

    14. L'amant des roses

      Composer: Mary Howe

      Performer: Christopher A. Leach, Mary Dibbern

    15. Nicht mit Engeln

      Composer: Mary Howe

      Performer: Courtney Maina, Mary Dibbern

    16. Mein Herz

      Composer: Mary Howe

      Performer: Courtney Maina, Mary Dibbern

    17. Lullaby for a Forester's Child

      Composer: Mary Howe

      Performer: Christopher A. Leach, Mary Dibbern

    18. Rêve

      Composer: Mary Howe

      Performer: Christopher A. Leach, Mary Dibbern

    19. Spring Come Not Too Soon

      Composer: Mary Howe

      Performer: Courtney Maina, Mary Dibbern

    20. Horses

      Composer: Mary Howe

      Performer: Courtney Maina, Mary Dibbern

    21. Little Fiddler's Green

      Composer: Mary Howe

      Performer: Christopher A. Leach, Mary Dibbern

    22. Music When Soft Voices Die

      Composer: Mary Howe

      Performer: Courtney Maina, Christopher A. Leach, Mary Dibbern


The name of Mary Howe (1882–1964) seems to have vanished from the history books. But she was an important voice in American music in the first half of the twentieth century, as an activist and organizer and, especially, as a composer. This pioneering album of her songs shows her late-Romantic style open to influences from Debussy, Mahler, Richard Strauss and other contemporaries: she was, she said, ‘alert for new sensations, like a Puritan on a holiday’. Mary Howe was born in Richmond, Virginia in 1882. Her early musical training included studies in Germany with Richard Burmeister, a pupil of Liszt. She studied at the Peabody Conservatory of Music where she met Anne Hull with whom she formed a duo piano team that toured in recital from 1920-1935. In 1922, Howe became one of the few women at Peabody to have earned a diploma in composition at that time. With her three children, she appeared with the 4 Howes singing madrigals and early music. In 1930 she raised the money to found the Washington-based National Symphony Orchestra. Together with Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, she also founded the Chamber Music Society of Washington. In 1925 or 1926 she worked with Amy Beach to organize the Association of American Women Composers. A short period of coaching with Nadia Boulanger in Paris is 1933 marked the end of her formal training. Her diverse catalogue of compositions comprises more than two hundred titles, including works for orchestra, chamber ensembles, chorus, piano, and art songs for solo voice.