popular music: Ruth Crawford Seeger     popular music:     Ruth Crawford Seeger      Ruth Crawford Seeger: Violin Sonata; Piano Pieces; Two Ricercari; Sandburg Songs Susan Heineman, Maria Kitsopoulos, ... Naxos American, 2005             Ruth Crawford: 9 Preludes, Johanna Beyer: Dissonant Counterpoint, Gebrauchs-Musik Johanna Magdelena Beyer, Ruth Crawford (Seeger), ... New Albion Records, 2001 Significant, but stern Before the revival of interest for the music of Ruth Crawford that took place in the 1990s, her Piano Preludes (composed between 1924 and 1928) were one of her regularly performed and recorded compositions. Stylistically the musical language is somewhere around Berg's ...             Ives: Three Places in New England (Orchestral Set No. 1); Orchestral Set No. 2 / Ruggles: Sun-treader; Men ... Ruth Crawford Seeger, Charles Ives, ... Decca, 1998 American Iconoclasts This is a wonderful CD with powerful, committed performances of works by some of the most forward thinking composers this country has ever produced. And while there is alot of competition for the Ives Orchestral sets on the disc, the Ruggles and Crawford Seeger are ...             American Ultramodernists 1920-1950 Henry Cowell, Ruth Crawford Seeger, ... MD&G Records, 2005 a highly coherent program, but often stern, and a markedly slanted interpretive view It was a clever idea to bring together these four American avant-garde composers, or "ultra-modernists" as they called themselves then, active from the late 1910s onwards. The links between them are more than anecdotal. Rudhyar (born French under the name of Daniel ...             Songs of Ned Rorem Donald Gramm, Ruth Crawford Seeger, ... Composers Recordings, 1993             Seeger: Two Movements for Chamber Orchestra/Musgrave: Chamber Concerto No. 2/Mekeel: Planh/Corridors of Dreams Donald Bravo, Bruce Coppock, ... Delos Records, 1992             White Moon: Songs to Morpheus David Starobin, Dorothy Lawson, ... Nonesuch, 1996 The right selections for the right voice The theme of this music is Sleep and Dreams. The 'night setting' is reflected in a very interesting variety of songs, both old and modern. The ethereal quality of much of this music is well suited to Upshaw's silver toned voice, which expresses the fantasy and other ...             Ruth Crawford Seeger: Portrait Wilma van den Berge, Hans Woudenberg, ... Polygram Records, 1998 The Best of 1930s Modernism Ruth Crawford Seeger - A Portrait The male-dominated atmosphere of most of the arts in history has made the search for women's voices often a very difficult one, even for women earlier in this century. So many women of original achievement or promising talent were ...             Cowell: Quartet Romantic Frank Morelli, Madeleine Shapiro, ... New World Records, 1998 Outstanding performances For many of these pieces, this represents the only recording available. But there is much more of a reason why this album should receive accolades: the performances are stunningly good. Most of the musicians are familiar names, members of the Orpheus Chamber ...             Works for Violin by George Antheil; Johanna Beyer; Henry Cowell; Ruth P. Crawford; Charles Dodge; David ... George Antheil, Johanna Beyer, ... New World Records, 2006 A mixed bag but an opportunity for fine discoveries Despite the annotator's efforts to draw some ties between the composers presented on this disc, there is hardly any stylistic relation between their respective pieces, whose dates of composition span over seventy years. Ruth Crawford's Nocturne from 1923 (an apprentice ...             Songs of America Samuel Adler, Milton Babbitt, ... Nonesuch, 1992 a beautiful rendition of 20th Century American Song This is a great album. It spans the spectrum of 20th Century American music from the tonality and romanticism of Stephen Foster to the experimentality of John Cage. Jan DeGaetani and Gilbert Kalish, with their understanding and sensitivity to the music of their time, ...             The World of Ruth Crawford Seeger Ruth Crawford Seeger, Jenny Lin, ... Bis, 2002 Nicely played and narrated too Lin did a nice job of finding unpublished and obscure works. I especially enjoyed Tom Thumb.             Music of Marion Bauer and Ruth Crawford Seeger Marion Bauer, Ruth Crawford Seeger, ... Albany Records, 1998             Declarations: Music Between the Wars Ruth Crawford Seeger, Paul Hindemith, ... Cedille, 2006 On its new CD, Declarations, the Pacifica Quartet mines the artistic ferment of the interwar years with a program of gems from the 1920s and early 30s. Hindemith's stunning String Quartet No. 4, Op. 22 (1922) takes listeners on an amazing musical journey. Janácek's fervent String Quartet No. 2 ("Intimate Letters") from 1928 expresses the ...             The American Innovator John Adams, Milton Babbitt, ... Polygram Records, 1993 Tasty little survey Alan Feinberg is one of the finest pianists interpreting contemporary music today. Anything he does deserves a listen. This album is a little survey of mostly mid to late 20th Century piano music. And it is a delight. It covers a variety of styles from jazz age ...          products you might be interested in   search for popular music counterpoint, declarations, gebrauchs-musik, orchestral, sun-treader, ultramodernists      geepe.com    web randomly chosen DVD: Three Soviet Classics (Earth / The End of St. Petersburg / Chess Fever)