Word: albums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Edwards places what he calls 'emotional honesty' first in importance," read the high-flown album notes. "He believes that technical accuracy, slavish adherence to original harmonies and melody are secondary. Mrs. Edwards returned from private life to take part in this album, selecting her own repertoire of sophisticated songs, several of which she originally introduced in Trenton, N.J." Thus Columbia Records several weeks ago launched a new pianist-singer team on an album entitled The Piano Artistry of Jonathan Edwards, currently the liveliest sleeper on the market. In the album's cover picture, two right hands linger...
...years, decided to record the gag after Columbia executives heard Weston's act at a sales convention (Columbia A & R Man George Avakian picked the name Jonathan Edwards, after the fiery Colonial preacher, because he thought it had a properly ossified ring). The howling mistakes on the album, says Weston, are about half planned and half caused by the fact that the performers were laughing so hard they could scarcely follow what they were doing. As far as the Westons know, no one in the record-buying public has guessed who Jonathan and Darlene really are. But a fellow...
...first American opera. His most ambitious work was Seven Songs, dedicated to his old friend George Washington, who confessed that "I can neither sing one of the songs, nor raise a single note on any instrument to convince the unbelieving." Composer Hopkinson now appears on a Concord album entitled American Anthology, which takes the listener on a rambling and revealing excursion into the American musical past. Hopkinson's deferential A Toast to Washington was written to commemorate his appointment as commander in chief of the Continental Army. A watery, hymnlike piece reminiscent of O Worship the King...
...album also includes such little-known 19th century works as Hans Gram's The Death Song of An Indian Chief (words by "Philenia, a lady of Boston"), John Knowles Paine's Overture to As You Like It and Overture to Mac beth by Henry Fry, who claimed that his mammoth Santa Claus symphony was the longest "unified" instrumental piece on a single subject ever written. Fascinating history, modest music...
Currently, to see if he is a lasting hitmaker, Columbia is trying out Mathis and his husky, finely phrasing voice on a new album of ballads...