Dale Warland's Birthday Anniversary

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14 April 2017
A Birthday Anniversary

Dale Warland
American choral composer and conductor (ret)
Born: 14 April 1932

Dale Warland, conducting
The Dale Warland Singers (2005)
"Simple Gifts" 2'17"
(Brackett, arr. Warland)

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14 April 2017
A Birthday Anniversary

Dale Warland
American choral composer and conductor (ret)
Born: 14 April 1932

Dale Warland, conducting
The Dale Warland Singers (1996)
"Oh, Shenandoah" 3'30"
(Traditional, arr. Houkom)



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Joan Morris' Birthday Anniversary

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10 February 2017
A Birthday Anniversary

Joan Morris, mezzo-soprano
A renown balladeer
of 19th and early 20th centuries
parlor and burlesques songs
Born: 10 February 1943

Joan Morris, messo-soprano
   with William Bolcom, piano

"After the Ball" 4'54"
(C. Harris, 1892)

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10 February 2017
A Birthday Anniversary

Joan Morris, mezzo-soprano
A renown balladeer
of 19th and early 20th centuries
parlor and burlesques songs
Born: 10 February 1943

Joan Morris, mezzo-soprano
   with William Bolcom, piano

"A Bird in a Gilded Cage" 3'57"
(H. von Tilzer, 1900)


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Awaken to Me, Dream Lover Beyond the Sea

Sans amour plus rien ne va et j'ai tant besoin de to toi(I dreamed of nothing for us if not love)

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16 January 2017
A Birthday Anniversary

American operatic mezzo-soprano
Marilyn Horne
Born:16 January 1934

Marilyn Horn, messo-soprano (1986)

"Beautiful Dreamer" 3'32"
(S. Foster)

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17 January 2017
A Birthday Anniversary

Dalida
French-Italian pop vocalist
(17 January 1933 - 3 May 1987)

Dalida (1960)

"J'ai rêvé" 2'34"
(B. Darin)


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Having a Ball with Kenny

Kenny Ball
English trumpeter and jazz band leader
(22 May 1930 - 7 Mar 2013)

Kenny Ball and His Jazzmen (1962)

- "Vilia"
(Lehár; arr. Ball)

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Howard Keel & Dale Warland Birthdays

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13 April 2016
A Birthday Anniversary

Howard Keel
American-born actor and singer
(13 April 1919 - 7 November 2004)

Howard Keel, vocal
1953

- Were Thine Thy Special Face
2'07"
(Porter)


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13 April 2016
A Birthday Anniversary

Dale Warland
American-born choral composer & conductor
(born:14 April 1932)

Dale Warland, conducting
The Dale Warland Singers
2005

- Simple Gifts
2'17"
(Brackett)

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If You Know Souza Like I Know Souza

Today is the birthday anniversary of John Philip Souza, "The March King."
John Philip Souza
American-born composer and band director
(6 November 1854 - 6 March 1932)
Double-feature Sousa Tracks:

Henry Mancini and Concert Band(1972) - "Semper Fidelis"
Henry Mancini and Concert Band(1972) - "El Capitan"
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Adelade Proctor's Birthday Anniversary

Adelade Anne Proctor
English Poet
(30 October 1825 - 2 February 1864)
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David Hughes, tenor (1968)
- The Lost Chord (Proctor & Sullivan)

Happy New Year 2011

Vienna at Night, Christmas 2010
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In Classical Mood: Nights in Vienna (1996)
- Radetzky March, Op. 228 (J.Strauss Sr.)

An Americana on Amercia's Birthday

Stephen Foster
Foremost 19th century American songsmith
(4 July, 1826 – 13 January, 1864)

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Robert White, tenor (1976)
- Beautiful Dreamer (Foster)


Beautiful Dreamer (1862)

Beautiful dreamer, wake unto me
Starlight and dewdrops are waiting for thee
Sounds of the rude world heard in the day
Lull'd by the moonlight have all pass'd away
Beautiful dreamer, queen of my song
List while I woo thee with soft melody
Gone are the cares of life's busy throng
Beautiful dreamer, awake unto me
Beautiful dreamer, awake unto me

Beautiful dreamer, out on the sea
Mermaids are chanting the wild lorelie
Over the streamlet vapors are borne
Waiting to fade at the bright coming morn
Beautiful dreamer, beam on my heart
E'en as the morn on the streamlet and sea
Then will all clouds of sorrow depart
Beautiful dreamer, awake unto me
Beautiful dreamer, awake unto me

Thanksgiving 2007

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Mantovani (1959)
Turkey in the Straw (Traditional)

President Lincoln's 1863 Thanksgiving Proclamation (highlighted passages are this blogger's emphases):

The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God. In the midst of a civil war of unequalled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign States to invite and to provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere except in the theatre of military conflict; while that theatre has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union. Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defence, have not arrested the plough, the shuttle, or the ship; the axe had enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore. Population has steadily increased, notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege and the battle-field; and the country, rejoicing in the consciousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years with large increase of freedom.

No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy. It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and voice by the whole American People. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to his tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquillity and Union.

Abraham Lincoln

King of Ragtime

Scott Joplin, King of Ragtime
24 November, 1868 - 1 April, 1917)

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Marcus Roberts, piano (1998) - Bethena's Waltz (Joplin)

Shine On Harvest Moon

The Harvest Moon, 6 October, 2009

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The New Vaudeville Band (1967)
Shine On Harvest Moon

Shine On Harvest Moon (1908)
Words: Jack Norworth
Music: Nora Bayes Norworth

Vocals: The New Vaudeville Band (1967)


The night was mighty dark so you could hardly see
For the moon refused to shine
Couple sitting underneath the willow tree
For love, they pined

Little maid was kinda 'fraid of darkness
So she said, "I guess I'll go."
Boy began to sigh, looked up at the sky
Told the moon his little tale of woe

"Shine on, shine on harvest moon up in the sky
I ain't had no lovin' since January, February, June, or July
Snow time, ain't no time to stay outdoors and spoon
So shine on, shine on harvest moon for me and my gal."

[Interlude]

"Oh, shine on, shine on harvest moon up in the sky
I ain't had no lovin' since January, February, June, or July
Snow time, ain't no time to stay outdoors and spoon
So shine on, shine on harvest moon for me and my gal."