Dreamer Come in [Import]

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Formed from the ashes of Pussy Galore, The Honeyriders started buzzing around Western Australia in 2003 with the launch of their debut EP 'Delicate Morning'. This 2005 album has all the creamy qualities of the 'Delicate Morning' EP but goes a step further to show us that dreams can rock and that honey is addictive as ever. Independent. 2005.

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American Dreamer: Songs of Stephen Foster; Thomas Hampson; Jay Unger; Molly Mason
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • It's Dreamy
  • My Favorite Composer of all time
  • An American classic from Hampson that brings smiles and tears
  • OMG!!! More than 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 stars, one of the best album in the world!!!
  • It's simply lovely
American Dreamer: Songs of Stephen Foster; Thomas Hampson; Jay Unger; Molly Mason
Thomas Hampson , Jay Ungar , Molly Mason , Garrison Keillor , David Alpher , Mark Rust , Michael Parloff , Peter Ecklund , John Kirk , Arnold Kinsella , and Stephen Foster
Manufacturer: Angel Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000002SK7
Release Date: 1992-10-20

Tracks:

  1. Opening Solo Violin
  2. Jeanie With The Light Brown Hair
  3. Hard Times Come Again No More
  4. The Voice Of Bygone Days
  5. Foster Favorites Medley (Ring, Ring The Banjo (1851) Oh! Susanna (1848) Camptown Races (1850)
  6. Open Thy Lattice, Love (1844)
  7. Beautiful Dreamer (1864)
  8. That's What's The Matter
  9. Old Home Medley (Old Folks at Home (1851) My Old Kentucky Home, Good Night (1853)
  10. Molly! Do You Love Me? (1850)
  11. Sweetly She Sleeps, My Alice Fair (1851)
  12. Comrades, Fill No Glass For Me (1855)
  13. Dancing On The River (Nelly Bly (1850) The Glendy Burk (1860) Angelina Baker (1850)
  14. My Wife Is A Most Knowing Woman (1863)
  15. Gentle Annie (1856)
  16. Linger In Blissful Repose (1858)
  17. Ah! May The Red Rose Live Alway (1850)

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars It's Dreamy.......2007-01-10

This is a very wonderful recording of Stephen Foster by a master singer.
Foster's songs are of a more innocent and naive time in the American psyche, a time that it would not hurt us to remember, given the wretched brutality of American culture today (something you'll appreciate after listening to this recording).

The songs are beautifully sung by Mr. Hamspon, and the musical accompaniment with piano, mandolin, tuba, banjo, etc. seems a perfect setting for this period music. I enjoyed the musical interludes of Foster songs (not sung by Mr. Hampson), such as "Oh, Suzanna", "My Old Kentucky Home", and "Camptown Races." They are foot-stompin' and finger-snappin' good in a non-syncopated way.

Mr. Hampson's voice is so beautiful, and he has done such a wonderful job with these song's you'll just have to hear it, and when you do, tell me that you're not dreaming.

I remember reading a quote by John Phillip Sousa that decried the use of syncopation in American popular music. I never understood it until listening to this recording. The richness and intensity of American popular music (as experienced in the work of Stephen Foster) has been lost.
Everything has to be so cool today, thanks to syncopation, and "cool" really means no emotion.

If emotion is what you want, emotion is what you'll get with Stephen Foster's songs. It was a time when the death of loved ones (especially those who died in their youth) was experienced more often (see "I Dream of Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair" and "Gentle Annie"). And we were not protected from the vicissitudes of fate by myriad government programs, modern medicine and universal prosperity (see "Hard Times").
Husbands and wives had their differences then, as today, (see the amusing song "My Wife is a Most Knowin' Woman") The passion of the Civil War (Foster was a Unionist),is reflected in a wonderful, fun song, "That's What's the Matter."

If you love good music, and you have heart which can be stirred, and you love your country, this is for you.

I love this recording. It has opened up the door to my "beautiful dreams," dreams of bygone days, lost love, and whatever else we pine for.

I wanted to buy several copies for my friends, but somehow I felt that the impact of this recording was so personal, that it could not be shared with others. Not that they couldn't enjoy it, but that I could not begin to share the intense emotion and reverie stirred in my heart by these beautiful songs.

5 out of 5 stars My Favorite Composer of all time.......2006-08-20

Growing up playing his stuff on piano, I love the instrumentality of this CD..the violins give off that wail that he speaks of..I am not sure what it is about Stephen Foster but these verses..grab me like no other..there is so much sensitivity to it..

I dream of Jeannie with the light brown hair
Born like a vapor on the summer air
I see her tripping where the bright streams play
Happy as the daisies that dance on her way
Many were the wild notes her merry voice would pour

but the violins in this CD make this CD the best out there..
FYI should you be into astrology Stephen Foster is definition of Cancer...Sun and Moon conjunct in Cancer with mars in Scorpio..i love his lyrics..almost to the point of obsession..

5 out of 5 stars An American classic from Hampson that brings smiles and tears.......2006-07-17

Stephen Foster was the greatest American composer of sentimental parlor ballads--he so perfectly imitated folk songs that his music wound up turning into them. In an age of home music-making and later of families sitting around the radio, Foster's songs were a staple, often performed by crossover artists from opera like Lawrence Tibbett. Those were plump, ripe styles of singing, highly flavored by church hymns.

In this 1992 collection of 17 Foster favorites, plus a few rareties, Hampson drops the platform manner and goes straight for heartfelt sincerity. His tone is plain yet sweet, his expression intimate. He is accompanied by instruments redolent of the Victorian drawing room (guitar, fiddle, upright piano), and the mood they create brings tears and smiles of remembrance. This music is embedded in America's genes, and it's wonderful to realize that every note is still alive and throbbing with feeling.

5 out of 5 stars OMG!!! More than 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 stars, one of the best album in the world!!!.......2005-11-25

Simply one word, WOW!!!
Thomas Hampson's voice is simply fantasic. His voice is very different from regular operatic baritone voice, very sweet, and rich. I really cant believe an operatic baritone can sing folk song like THIS good, in my opinion he sounds even better than his opera works in this album. His voice and the background music matches perfectly, the outcome would move u to tears, and u can feel the origin of MUSIC. This album really shows what the word MUSIC means, and the songs simply just ALL beautiful. I like his "beautiful dreamer", "my life is well knowing woman", and "jeanie with the light brown hair" the most. When I listen the songs I would just imagine that I am in the world of past USA, and I can feel the life of the ppl in the past USA~ just like watching an old classic movie, it would touch ur heart and fall in love with this album.

5 out of 5 stars It's simply lovely.......2004-12-14

I didn't know Stephen Foster (I thought): wrong: Oh Susanna, etc, I knew, but had no idea who the composer was.

This CD is a revelation. The melodies are so beautiful, as are the poems, and Thomas Hampson just brings them to life as wonderfully as ever. I especially love "Beautiful Dreamer" - it gives me butterflies - and "My wife is a most knowing woman" - the way he makes the voices and the indignation is just brilliant. If one needed reminding what a brilliant singer Mr Hampson is - this disk does it.
100 Favorite Patriotic Songs
Average customer rating: 2 out of 5 stars
  • not to great
  • Not so bad, 100 tunes for 4$
  • You get what you pay for.
  • Now I know why there were no song samples to listen to ...
100 Favorite Patriotic Songs

Manufacturer: Bci / Eclipse Music
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000A1HT8
Release Date: 2003-08-12

Tracks:

  1. America the Beautiful
  2. All Quiet on the Potomac Tonight
  3. Ballad of the Green Berets
  4. On Top of Old Smokey
  5. Coyote Warrior
  6. Semper Fidelis
  7. Breeze from Alabama
  8. Onward Christian Soldiers
  9. Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming
  10. Patriot
  11. Sweet Betsy from Pike
  12. Marines' Hymn
  13. America Is
  14. When Johnny Comes Marchin' Home
  15. Happy the Soldier
  16. American Trilogy
  17. Home Sweet Home
  18. Washington Post March
  19. Enraptured I Gaze
  20. Jeannie With the Light Brown Hair
  21. Yellow Rose of Texas
  22. Over There
  23. Simple Gifts
  24. Liberty Bell
  25. Star Spangled Banner

Tracks:

  1. God Bless the USA
  2. Yankee Doodle Dandy
  3. Katy Cruel
  4. I Vow to Thee My Country
  5. King Cotton
  6. Beautiful Dreamer
  7. America
  8. American Patrol
  9. Mine Eyes Have Seen the Beauty
  10. Mohican Dream
  11. Red, White and Blue
  12. Some Folks
  13. Liberty Song
  14. Pomp and Circumstance
  15. Hail to the Chief
  16. Bennington Rifles
  17. Peace on the Battlefield
  18. I've Been Working on the Railroad
  19. Under the Double Eagle
  20. Red River Valley
  21. My Country 'Tis of Thee
  22. Camptown Races
  23. Wild Blue Yonder
  24. Hands Across the Sea
  25. Fanfare for the Common Man

Tracks:

  1. Stars and Stripes Forever
  2. Living in America
  3. Home on the Range
  4. Old Colony Times
  5. Clementine
  6. Invincible Eagle
  7. Ring Ring de Banjo
  8. Yankee Doodle
  9. Largo from "The New World"
  10. To a Wild Rose
  11. Hail Columbia
  12. Alexander's Ragtime Band
  13. Gettysburg
  14. Carry Me Back to Old Virginny
  15. Capitan
  16. Prairie Daughter
  17. Little Brown Jug
  18. Marching Through Georgia
  19. Entertainer
  20. Steamboat Around the Bend
  21. Revolutionary Tea
  22. Cassions Keep Rollin' Along
  23. Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier
  24. Amazing Grace
  25. Grand Old Flag

Tracks:

  1. God Bless America
  2. National Emblem
  3. Soldier, Soldier Won't You Marry Me
  4. Anchors Away
  5. Oh, Susannah
  6. Tramp, Tramp, Tramp
  7. Toast
  8. Dixie
  9. St. Louis Blues
  10. Appalachian Spring
  11. Bonnie Blue Flag
  12. Old Hundreth
  13. Swanee River
  14. Battle Cry of Freedom
  15. U. S Field Artillery
  16. Sidewalks of New York
  17. Chester
  18. Auld Lang Syne
  19. Kingdom Come
  20. My Old Kentucky Home
  21. Hail to the Spirit of Liberty
  22. Battle Hymn of the Republic
  23. Shenandoah
  24. Abraham's Daughter
  25. This Land Is Your Land

Customer Reviews:

2 out of 5 stars not to great.......2007-04-04

We were disappointed with this CD, but for the price I guess we can't expect much. I didn't care for the new style presentation of the songs. I like a more traditional rendering.

3 out of 5 stars Not so bad, 100 tunes for 4$.......2005-06-22

I red the comments of two other people who have bought this 4 CD BOX SET and it is not really so bad. I will even add that there are some excellent tunes. However, I must agree with the fact that few tunes seem to have been recorded 40 or 50 years ago, mainly when you hear the scratches of an old turntable but it is just 2 or 3 tunes. Furthermore, if you do not know American music, it is a good BOX SET to buy if you consider that you received 4 CD for 4$ including 100 tunes. On these 4 CD, I have heard some orchestration that I have never heard before and I consider that they are different but interesting. Any way, after hearing these 100 tunes, you will say to yourself that you like this tune, this other tune, this other tune and so on and you will be able to buy a more expensive CD with the tunes that you like. However, I have bought many CDs in the last few weeks and as you know, there are always some tunes that you like and some tunes that you do not like on every CD that you will buy. So, don't buy it at 25$ but at 4 or 5$ dollars, it is a very good choice for 100 tunes.

1 out of 5 stars You get what you pay for........2004-07-04

You get what you pay for. The singers put their own spin on the singing of each song. If you didn't hear the words you would not recognize some of them. Even some of the music sounds like a bad recording of music played on a turntable. Definitely not worth the price.

1 out of 5 stars Now I know why there were no song samples to listen to ..........2004-07-04

I wish this review had been here when I was thinking of purchasing it. I guess you get what you pay for. If you are thinking of buying this, you are better off recording your own CDs (or at least buying one that you can listen to a sampling of the songs). This album includes songs that were mere recordings of the songs playing on an old record player. It's almost so unbelievable that it is funny.
Stories Of Foster And Sousa
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Excellent intro to Foster and Sousa
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Stories Of Foster And Sousa

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ASIN: B000001KDF
Release Date: 1995-04-16

Tracks:

  1. Old Folks At Home
  2. Oh ! Susanna
  3. Old Black Joe
  4. Jeanie With The Light Brown Hair
  5. My Old Kentucky Home
  6. Old Folks At Home
  7. Camptown Races
  8. Massa's In De Cold, Cold Ground
  9. Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming
  10. Beautiful Dreamer
  11. The Stars And Stripes Forever
  12. The Crusader
  13. Offenbach: La Vie Parisienne
  14. The Belle Of Chicago
  15. The Gladiator
  16. Semper Fidelis
  17. Washington Post
  18. High School Cadets
  19. The Thunderer
  20. Semper Fidelis
  21. Washington Post
  22. Hands Across The Sea
  23. El Capitan
  24. Stars And Stripes Forever
  25. Semper Fidelis
  26. Washington Post March
  27. The Thunderer
  28. High School Cadets
  29. El Capitan

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Excellent intro to Foster and Sousa.......2007-02-25

This is a tremendous value considering the price and the number of tracks that you get. The renditions are not bad, but I have heard better Foster. There is a lot of narration, which makes this a great teaching tool to introduce Foster and Sousa. The narration is a bit more for Foster than Sousa. Some of the Foster songs seem to be cut a little short, giving you what is really more of a sampler than a rich collection of complete Foster songs. The Sousa marches seem to be a little longer and don't have quite as much narration. Even though both men were well known American composers, their type of music was quite different, so it's kind of an odd paring on this album. It's a pleasant listen, but not a "must have" item unless you don't have much Foster or Sousa in your music collection; it's a good starter album. Great for kids who might be interested in learning about these two famous composers.

5 out of 5 stars march review.......2001-05-10

this cd gas a great selection of music on it. the sound of the music is perfectly clear and i definately reccomend it. it is an ideal disc for all march fans. two of the greatest american composers on one disc. this is also a great deal considering the amount of songs on this disc. definately but this cd.
Stephen Foster Song Book
Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
  • Stephen Foster
  • Terrific choral renditions
  • Make the exquisite into the mundane
  • Great Drinking Music!
  • One of my favorite CDs
Stephen Foster Song Book

Manufacturer: RCA
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ASIN: B000003FAZ
Release Date: 1993-05-11

Tracks:

  1. Ring de Banjo
  2. Beautiful Dreamer
  3. Gentle Annie
  4. Way Down in Ca-i-ro
  5. My Old Kentucky Home
  6. Old Black Joe
  7. Dolcy Jones
  8. Thou Art the Queen of My Song
  9. Old Folks At Home
  10. Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming
  11. Oh! Susanna
  12. Gentle Lena Clare
  13. Nelly Bly
  14. Some Folks
  15. Laura Lee
  16. Camptown Races
  17. Traditional:Steal Away
  18. Traditional:Nobody Knows (duh Trouble I See)
  19. Traditional:I Want to Die Easy
  20. Traditional:Dere's No Hidin' Place

Customer Reviews:

1 out of 5 stars Stephen Foster.......2007-05-13

I saw a program on OPB about him so I got this. But, I didn't like it and don't listen to it. It is now under my bed collecting dust.

5 out of 5 stars Terrific choral renditions.......2006-01-27

I own this CD and am especially fond of it for the solos by Thomas Pyle and Clayton Krehbiel, particularly the latter's singing of "I Want to Die Easy." All other soloists and choristers are equally superb, but those two gentlemen, sadly since deceased, were personal acquaintances and musical influences. If you don't have a taste for great choral arrangements, then pass, but you'll be missing out on something special. Enjoy it, you who adore the finest.

1 out of 5 stars Make the exquisite into the mundane.......2004-07-21

Oh, puleeze, this is the sappiest rendition of these gorgeous songs ever recorded, right up there with sing-a-long with Mitch Miller.

I always hate when songs that are meant to be sung intimately as solos or duets are done by 7,000 harmonized voices.

I recommend this recording only to be listened to in a nice comfortable elevator

5 out of 5 stars Great Drinking Music!.......2002-07-20

This CD Kicks ...! BR>The trombone riff in "Camptown Races" is incredible. The screaming axe in "Oh! Susanna" is mind-blowing. The fantastic jamming on this CD reminds me of HMTT. This CD is one monster hit after another. "Steal Away To Jesus", is a real kicker, although not quite as good as "Will You F'n Give Me Jesus".......

Just sit back, pop a cold one, maybe a whiskey shooter , pop this
baby on the victrolla and enjoy.......

Here's to ya Hawks...........

5 out of 5 stars One of my favorite CDs.......2000-08-09

This is one of the best recordings of historic American music that I have heard, along with Joel Cohen's "Liberty Tree." The arrangements and interpretations of the songs are very beautiful. Some of the banjos are cheesy, but it is much much better than every other Foster recordings that I have heard. If you are in the mood to hear great music of Antebellum America, than I highly recommend this CD to you. You won't regret it!
Song of America
Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
  • It's lovely - But not newly recorded!
  • Yet another compilation
  • how precious!
  • Disappointing Duplication
  • If you like this sorta thing
Song of America
Charles Tomlinson Griffes , Erich Wolfgang Korngold , Charles Naginski , Ned Rorem , American Traditional , Elinor Remick Warren , Kurt Weill , Haydn Wood , Michael Parloff , Jay Ungar , Armen Guzelimian , Craig Rutenberg , David Alpher , Evan Stover , Garrison Keillor , and Mark Rust
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ASIN: B000BGR0TW
Release Date: 2005-11-08

Tracks:

  1. As Adam Early In The Morning
  2. Ah! May The Red Rose Live Alway (1850)
  3. Shenandoah (Traditional)
  4. Beautiful Dreamer (1864)
  5. Danny Deever
  6. Roses Of Picardy
  7. Jeanie With The Light Brown Hair (1854)
  8. Hard Times Come Again No More (1854)
  9. Molly, Do You Love Me? (1850)
  10. An Old Song Resung
  11. Tomorrow (When You Are Gone)
  12. The Erie Canal (Traditional)
  13. We Two
  14. The Nightingale (Traditional)
  15. Comrades, Fill No Glass For Me (1855)
  16. Luke Havergal
  17. To What You Said
  18. Look Down Fair Moon
  19. Dirge For Two Veterans
  20. Ethiopia Saluting The Colors

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Thomas Hampson is a persuasive advocate for these treasures from the Library of Congress' vast collections, so this CD's generous sampling leaves you wanting more. It covers the American songbook in all its variety, from traditional "folk" items like Shenandoah to Stephen Foster to the immigrants Erich Korngold and Kurt Weill to Leonard Bernstein and contemporary composers. Hampson adjusts his flexible, light baritone to fit each song. The voice is full and resonant on Danny Deever, simple and direct in 19th-century traditional songs and ballads, and nuanced in songs like Ned Rorem's "As Adam Early in the Morning," one of several on the disc with texts by Walt Whitman. A standout is the last song in this recital, one that leaves you with thoughts about music, history, and our nation's continuing issues, "Ethiopia Saluting the Colors," by Henry Burleigh. Most of the selections are performed with piano accompaniment, but several are with a small ensemble of traditional instruments. A word of caution: everything was recorded in the 1990s and presumably was available piecemeal on previous releases, although few are likely to have more than a handful of these 20 gems. --Dan Davis

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars It's lovely - But not newly recorded!.......2006-10-04

I don't think this recording deserves One Star ratings or that the artist deserves such crude bashing. And re: Hampson's eye-colour.... Uh, these aren't lenses? He has blue eyes. I met him many times and...indeed, they are dark blue.

Anyhow, this is what Hampson is focusing on right now, American song. While those aren't exactly my thing I have to say that he sings them beautifully. I wish he'd stick to that rather than heavy Verdi and Wagner which his voice isn't right for.

1 out of 5 stars Yet another compilation.......2006-06-13

I am a huge Tom fan. I go to his concerts and buy all of his CDs. I must say that I have been disappointed by this CD because it's entirely made of old recordings. There's a new photo on the cover, but that's all that is new here. So if you've bought your share of Tom CDs over the years, you want to check out the track info before you guy this one.

Now, Tom has been on tour and I STRONGLY recommend that you go see him next year when he comes through your city.

The other thing really annoying is that on the CD where you'd expect information about the music or the recording co., you instead get a large warning label from the FBI on pirating.

1 out of 5 stars how precious!.......2006-05-08

Thomas Hampson swoons and croons to monotonous effect throughout this tired collection; again displaying his ego and faux scholarship in ample measure. Oi-vay, what a disaster! And what is with the blue contact lenses in the Jacket phot? Hampson's eyes are brown. What an unbelievably vain Diva!

2 out of 5 stars Disappointing Duplication.......2006-01-17

I have not even heard the album, and I will not. Although I revere Mr. H. in just about everything he does, especially in song and Lieder, I am very disappointed that so many of these songs appear on other cds of which I already have about 19 of him. I think he and the producers should have chosen totally NEW material for this instead of drawing on his past achievements. I have no reservations about his performances, for I have seen him at the Met in opera and at Carnegie Hall in Mahler. I value them and all of his past cd productions.

3 out of 5 stars If you like this sorta thing.......2006-01-17

Here Mr. Hampson is in his element. Unlike his less than viable attempts at Opera, Mr. Hampson is a thorough and intelligent singer of songs. His affectations, so fully inappropriate in bigger operatic literature, work well with the intimate nature of these sweet and personal songs. If you are Hampson fan, this album will thrill you.
Songs by Stephen Foster, Vol. 1-2
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Time Capsule
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Songs by Stephen Foster, Vol. 1-2

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ASIN: B000005IYE
Release Date: 1992-05-28

Tracks:

  1. Songs By Stephen Foster: Jeanie With The Light Brown Hair
  2. Songs By Stephen Foster: There's A Good Time Coming
  3. Songs By Stephen Foster: Was My Brother In The Battle?
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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Time Capsule.......2006-11-30

The voices and instruments, like the songs, are straight from the mid-19th century. If you want to be transported back in time 150 years to a wonderful parlor performance of Foster's songs, this is the album to do it. The voices are marvelous and trained, and one must imagine that the strict phrasing and style are what one would have expected at the time. The cheap upright piano is perfect.

But the one perfect moment for me is the ONLY good extant rendition of "Was My Brother in the Battle?". Accompanied on a harmonium or pump reed organ, if this song doesn't tempt a tear, you simply aren't a romantic.

Very highly recommended.

3 out of 5 stars Unexpected.......2005-11-26

Quality of this recording is fantastic! Performances are superb! However, they don't fit being an example of Foster's music and times. I was expecting banjos and a Mississippi Sound - therfore, very, very disappointed in this CD and consider and a waste of money. Be sure to LISTEN to a few examples to match what you are looking for and what the CD offers. I, unfortunately did not listen before I bought. I rate this low only because my expectations were shattered. This IS a fine CD if opera styles are ok for an example of this southern, 1800's composer's work.

5 out of 5 stars An album to treasure.......2004-09-23

The landmark Library of Congress album, now on enhanced CD. Years
ago, I went on a six-months field assignment to a remote area of
Africa, where I could take only what music I could carry in a vest
pocket. I chose a tape player and two albums: a recital by Perlman
and this album on tape, and was content. If you love American
music, sung poetry, beautiful singing and deeply moving musicality,
this is an album you will treasure for a lifetime.

5 out of 5 stars A classic recording of American songs.......2004-08-22

What can I say that hasn't already been said below? I only wanted to reiterate how wonderful this album is and assure the reader the sound is spectacular on CD. This is a live recording, and intentionally so, as the idea was to create a "parlor" experience as these were parlor songs to be sung by family and friends around the old upright piano. I especially liked the comment about the upright piano which, indeed, does croak and clank throughout the performance adding a note of "authenticity" without becoming obtrusive.

If only Ms. DeGaetani had graced my parlor...

5 out of 5 stars The sessions of sweet silent thought stirred.......2003-11-22

I have never heard such unadulterated extraworldy sound emanate from two human voices and what would otherwise be firewood (the period instruments played by Gilbert Kalish). It stirs profound patriotism and a deep sentimentality for our early days when a civilized people pined to find virtue by examining its own body-- the north and the south, the small town, the simple flag, and the beauty of gentile manly and womanly love expressed through equisite song. There is no other music I would rather hear 'when summoning up the remembrance of things past.' The ghost of the early American parlor will prick your skin through these simple hymns and you may escape for a moment our troubled and busy times.
Foster for Brass
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ASIN: B00007FPFS
Release Date: 2004-05-18

Tracks:

  1. Ellen Bayne Quick Step
  2. Bronze Bob Tail Horse Quick Step
  3. Why, No One To Love
  4. California Quick Step
  5. Beautiful Dreamer
  6. Dolly Day Quick Step
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  16. Some Folks
  17. Open Thy Lattice Love
  18. Old Dog Tray March
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  25. Lulu Is Gone
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  27. Farewell My Lily Dear Quick Step

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars thanks again, naxos!.......2007-04-04

naxos is the greatest budget label of all-time. i've gotten so many great discs from them, and never a bummer. as for this disc, it's a great idea(arrangements of the songs of stephen foster for 19th century brass band, performed on period instruments), wonderfully executed. i have many recordings of stephen foster material, and this is one of the best. this brass band sounds fantastic and the audio quality is very very fine. i highly recommend that you make this a part of your household.

5 out of 5 stars Stephen Foster Played by a Saxhorn (not saxophone) Quintet.......2004-06-20

Imagine a post-Civil War family trooping to the town square on a fine summer evening to hear the town band play a concert of arrangements of popular tunes, that gentler period's equivalent of a rock concert of today. That's essentially what we have here. The Chestnut Brass Company, a Philadelphia brass quintet which on occasion plays on everything from Baroque sackbuts to the most modern trumpets and trombones, here plays on instuments of the saxhorn family. Saxhorns, invented by Adolphe Sax, the fellow who also invented the better-known saxophone, are brass instruments perfected in the 1840s. Their conical bore projects a uniquely sweet and mellow sound. They were exceedingly popular for town bands during the latter half of the century, but their use had waned by the turn of the 20th century. This quintet consists of an E flat soprano, a B flat soprano, an E flat alto, a B flat baritone, and a E flat contrabass saxhorn. The dulcet tones and sonic blend are a marvel to behold. Partly, of course, this is due to the expert playing by Bruce Barrie, Susan Sexton (or is it SAXton?), Marian Hesse, Larry Zimmerman, and Jay Krush.

Stephen Foster wrote very little purely instrumental music, but his songs fostered (pun unavoidable) innumerable instrumental arrangements. Those heard here are taken (and sometimes re-arranged) from the playbooks of such 19th-century bands as the Manchester, New Hampshire town band, the Boston Brass Band and the brass band of the 26th Regiment of North Carolina, not to forget the U.S. Marine Band. The tunes are arranged into quicksteps, waltzes, marches, schottisches and potpourris. Most of the familiar tunes are here: 'Beautiful Dreamer,' 'I Dream of Jeannie,' 'My Old Kentucky Home,' 'Camptown Races,' 'Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming,' and 'Some Folks Do' as well as plenty of relatively unfamiliar songs. And because these arrangements come from all over some of the tunes appear several times like old friends. Some of my own favorites are 'Some Folks' arranged by W. L. Baccus, 'Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming' arranged by Bruce Barrie, 'Camptown Quick Step' arranged by Jay Krush, and 'Gentle Annie' from the U.S. Marine Corps Band archives.

As an unabashed fan of the music of Charles Ives, I can't hear these arrangements without wondering which of these tunes Charlie heard (and played) when his own father, a former Civil War bandmaster, led his town band in Danbury, Connecticut.

Recommended for brass band lovers, Stephen Foster fans, and folks who like, say, the sound track to Ken Burns's 'Civil War' PBS documentary.

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Stephen Foster: A Family Album
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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Stephen Foster: A Family Album
Douglas Jimerson
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ASIN: B00005YDWZ
Release Date: 2002-02-26

Tracks:

  1. Camptown Races
  2. My Old Kentucky Home, Good-Night!
  3. Come With Thy Sweet Voice
  4. Old Folks Quadrilles
  5. Jeanie With The Light Brown Hair
  6. The Merry, Merry Month Of May
  7. Old Folks At Home
  8. Beautiful Dreamer
  9. Village Bells Polka
  10. Old Dog Tray
  11. Nelly Bly
  12. Was My Brother In The Battle?
  13. The Glendy Burk
  14. Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming
  15. Old Black Joe
  16. Jennie's Own Schottisch
  17. Gentle Annie
  18. Oh! Susanna

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars Good, but not great.......2003-06-01

I was looking for a Stephen Foster CD that was not "jazzed up" and maintained the closest fidelity to the old-time recordings. This CD did not disappoint. Most of the renditions of the lesser-known Foster classics are excellent. "Old Black Joe" is particularly moving.

My only problem is with the two old standards: Camptown Races and Oh! Susanna. I get the impression that the vocalist was trying to put his own "stamp" on these two very familiar tunes by accenting odd syllables or using strange intonations. At any rate, they ended up sounding cheesy so that my family members ended up making fun of the idiosyncracies introduced by the singer rather than singing along with the familiar words and melody. Oh! well...

5 out of 5 stars Gem of an Album.......2002-12-26

I have thoroughly enjoyed discovering the full scope of Foster's musical genius through this biography and album of popular Foster songs, choral gems, piano delights, and chamber music arrangements. Douglas Jimerson and Sheryl Cohen have the ideal voices for Foster's beautiful parlor songs.
Stephen Foster's America
Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
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ASIN: B00000AEKT
Release Date: 1998-09-08

Tracks:

  1. Minstrel Songs Of Foster: Oh! Susanna
  2. Minstrel Songs Of Foster: Massa's In De Cold Ground
  3. Minstrel Songs Of Foster: Old Folks At Home
  4. Minstrel Songs Of Foster: Camptown Races
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  11. Spiritual Songs Of Foster And Others: Deep River
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  22. Patriotic Songs Of The Nineteenth Century: America

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars STEPHEN FOSTER'S AMERICA.......2006-12-06

I am so happy that I discovered this CD! These interpretations take me back to another place and time when parlor music dominated America's musical culture. In the 19th century, trained singers sang beautiful ballads by the family piano. Douglas Jimerson presents a time capsule with carefully crafted interpretations. By the way, the sound samples on amazon appear to be from an earlier release of the album, and the new recordings are more lovely than I expected.

2 out of 5 stars Keep shopping for Stephen Foster!.......2002-06-05

If I may be blunt, I can't stand this album! Mr. Jimerson's voice is excellent. However, his operatic leanings undermine the spirit of Stephen Foster's music.

As for the arrangments, if Mr. Jimerson is going to keep the words "dere" (for "there") and "dat" (for "that") in the songs, then why exclude the word "darkies" in favor of "mama" and the like? My guess is that fans of Stephen Foster (who, when compared to other minstrel songwriters of his day, imbided the subjects of his songs with a great deal of dignity) are more interested in maintaining the purity of the songs than they are in achieving political correctness via 19th Century songs!

For my money, the Robert Shaw Chorale C.D. of Stephen Foster songs is much more enjoyable.

4 out of 5 stars Jimerson Not Half Bad.......2002-02-08

These are earnest and heartfelt renditions of Stephen Foster songs that really deliver a period flavor, and nail Foster's emotions on the head. I can't believe that anyone could object to Mr. Jimerson's elision of currently offensive racial terms. There's a difference between "Massa's in de Cold, Cold Ground," which establishes a dramatic situation, take it or leave it, and race-specific epithets that might hurt somebody's feelings in the here and now. My only problem with Mr. Jimerson is that he tends throw these bizarre songs into the mix that have nothing to do with the themes of his albums -- like "He's Got the Whole World." Still, we should be grateful that this sensitive singer (and his fine, period-conscious musicians) are recording great 19th Century sentimental songs. I'd like to see him go even deeper into the literature of the time.

5 out of 5 stars Timeless and Beautiful.......2001-08-01

Faithful renditons of great songs. Every American should know the words to at least half a dozen of these gems. I do not agree with reviewers who believe he should have included the original slurs....these "reviewers" should imagine themselves in Mr. Jimmerson's place, who was singing for a diverse crowd in our nation's capitol in 1990's America. Accuracy ("authenticity"?)is of course crucial, but it is absurd to demand that the performer sing these uncomfortable lines in this setting.

2 out of 5 stars Politally Correct or Stupid?.......2001-02-28

The major thing wrong with this recording is the editing out of the word "darkies" which is like eliminating "cowboy" from western songs. If this guy is so sensitive, why include "Massa" which is a tribute to a slave master. Also, He's Got The Whole World In His Hand is generally attributed to the modern age.

If you want to hear a much better rendition of Foster, and other music of the period, try and find Thomas Hampson, "American Dreamer" and "An Old Song Re-Sung".
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    16. L' Adieu De Matin
    17. A Dream
    18. Ser, D.957, No.4
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