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Love's Seasons: Songs of Mary Howe and Robert Ward
Sandra McClain, Mary Howe, Robert Ward
Love's Seasons: Songs of Mary Howe and Robert Ward
Genres: Pop, Classical
 
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The American art song found a champion in Mary Howe (1882-1964) whose songs, though often sung by colleagues during her lifetime, were rediscovered slowly after the emergence of the women's movement of the late 1970's. Div...  more »

     
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All Artists: Sandra McClain, Mary Howe, Robert Ward
Title: Love's Seasons: Songs of Mary Howe and Robert Ward
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: MSR Classics
Original Release Date: 1/1/2005
Re-Release Date: 10/26/2004
Genres: Pop, Classical
Styles: Vocal Pop, Opera & Classical Vocal, Historical Periods, Modern, 20th, & 21st Century
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 681585105528

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The American art song found a champion in Mary Howe (1882-1964) whose songs, though often sung by colleagues during her lifetime, were rediscovered slowly after the emergence of the women's movement of the late 1970's. Diversity of style, language, subject, and level of difficulty gives Howe's songs great appeal to a wide range of listeners and performers and allows for the versatile programming contained on this disc. Typical of Robert Ward's songs, his love of language is apparent in the evocative settings of St. Vincent Millay's sonnets. Voice and accompaniment are tightly linked, producing stirring dramatic effects. Romantic and colorful in nature, yet injected with expressive chromaticism characteristic of the twentieth century, the songs are a welcome addition to the American art song repertoire.