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Enchantment of Heavenly Love (2000)

by Northern Harmony

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Closing year 02:39
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Johnson Road 02:31
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Butternut 02:46
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Walkley 03:21
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Daniels 01:49
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Millbrook 03:17
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A lady red 01:59
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Come to Zion 01:16
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Enchantment 01:11
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about

A compilation of music of composer Neely Bruce of Middletown, Connecticut.

A conductor, concert pianist, and gifted and prolific composer with hundreds of works to his credit in a phenomenally wide range of styles, Neely Bruce's music tastes run from rock opera to classical piano, from simple parlor songs to ultra avant garde vocal techniques.

Neely's shape-note music became an instant favorite of ours in the early 1990s. He chose wonderfully graphic texts from unusual sources, he capture the traditional shape-note sound and rhythmic drive, he had a great knack for matching the natural declamation of the text in the music—and he wrote great alto parts! The Emily Dickinson settings and Shaker settings in this album share these same attributes.

This recording was a project of a Village Harmony traveling summer camp in 1997, with 22 teen singers plus a number of guest singers who had performed some of these pieces with Village Harmony and Bayley-Hazen Singers in the past. The grand sound of the full group heard on most of the shape-note numbers contrasts wonderfully with the smaller and younger forces heard on most of the Shaker songs and Dickinson pieces.

credits

released November 6, 2014

Directed by Larry Gordon
Recording supervisor: Neely Bruce
Singers:
Mary Alice Amidon, Margaret Dale Barrand, Jericho Bicknell, Andrea Boothby, Mary Cay Brass, Jena Carpenter, Beth Carpenter, Laura Carpenter, Vanessa Compton, Patty Cuyler, Abby Heller-Burnham, Susan Hydusik, Manon Kahle, Megan McGrath, Naomi Morse, Cora Nielsen, Tai Nickel, Marnie Owen, Suzannah Park, Indra Rios-Moore, Rosie Setford, Thalia Stolper, Alexa Wahle-Ritchie, Nicole Wimbiscus, Susan Waters, Mary Kate Whittelsey, Heather Wieler, Jenny Williamson, Merideth Wright,
Peter Amidon, Sam Amidon, Tony Barrand, David Barreda, William Carpenter, Phillip Dutton, Fred Emigh, Larry Gordon, David Gunn, Saxon King, Colin Lindsay, Patrick McMahon, Ethan Ryea, Ian Smiley, Tim Wheelock, Matt Wojcik
Instrumentalists:
Fiddles - Sam Amidon, Colin Lindsay, Naomi Morse, Susan Waters
Accordion - Mary Cay Brass
Guitar - William Carpenter
Baritone horn - Patty Cuyler

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First formed in 1993, Northern Harmony has since gained a wide reputation thru concert tours across the US, the UK and western Europe. The ensemble is part of Village Harmony, a Vermont-based world music organization that sponsors domestic & international performance singing camps, workshops and tours. ... more

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