DRAM: Songs Of Smaller Creatures

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Songs Of Smaller Creatures

and Other American Choral Works

Label: Cedille Records

Catalog Number: CDR131

Running Time: 59:07

Composition Date: 1974 — 2005

Recording Date: Jun 2011

Composers: Abbie Betinis; Walter de la Mare, Poet; Walt Whitman, Poet; Algernon Charles Swinburne, Poet; Emily Dickinson, Poet; Eric Whitacre; Stacy Garrop; Edna St. Vincent Millay, Poet; David Del Tredici; Ned Rorem; Paul Crabtree; Charles Anthony Silvestri, Poet

Performers: Grant Park Chorus; Hanna Dixon, soprano; Christopher Bell, Conductor; Susan Nelson, soprano; Peter Sovitsky, tenor; Amy Conn, soprano; Katherine Gray Noon, soprano; Hoss Brock, tenor

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Toward Sunshine, Toward Freedom: Songs of Smaller Creatures		9:00	Abbie Betinis
Performers: Grant Park Chorus; Hanna Dixon, soprano; Christopher Bell, Conductor; Susan Nelson, soprano Composition Date: 2005 Recording Date: Jun 2011
	Toward Sunshine, Toward Freedom - Songs of Smaller Creatures: 1. the bees’ song	1:10	Abbie Betinis; Walter de la Mare, Poet
	Performers: Grant Park Chorus; Hanna Dixon, soprano; Christopher Bell, Conductor Composition Date: 2005 Recording Date: Jun 2011
	Toward Sunshine, Toward Freedom - Songs of Smaller Creatures: 2. a noiseless, patient spider	4:08	Abbie Betinis; Walt Whitman, Poet
	Performers: Grant Park Chorus; Susan Nelson, soprano; Christopher Bell, Conductor Composition Date: 2005 Recording Date: Jun 2011
	Toward Sunshine, Toward Freedom - Songs of Smaller Creatures: 3. envoi	3:42	Abbie Betinis; Algernon Charles Swinburne, Poet
	Performers: Grant Park Chorus; Christopher Bell, Conductor Composition Date: 2005 Recording Date: Jun 2011
Buzzings - Three Pieces about Bees		4:05	Abbie Betinis; Emily Dickinson, Poet
Performers: Grant Park Chorus; Christopher Bell, Conductor Composition Date: 1976 Recording Date: Jun 2011
	Buzzings - Three Pieces about Bees: I. To make a prairie	1:32	Abbie Betinis; Emily Dickinson, Poet
	Performers: Grant Park Chorus; Christopher Bell, Conductor Composition Date: 1976 Recording Date: Jun 2011
	Buzzings - Three Pieces about Bees: II. A Bee his burnished Carriage	1:04	Abbie Betinis; Emily Dickinson, Poet
	Performers: Grant Park Chorus; Christopher Bell, Conductor Composition Date: 1976 Recording Date: Jun 2011
	Buzzings - Three Pieces about Bees: III. Bee! I’m expecting you!	1:27	Abbie Betinis; Emily Dickinson, Poet
	Performers: Grant Park Chorus; Christopher Bell, Conductor Composition Date: 1976 Recording Date: Jun 2011
When David Heard		11:43	Eric Whitacre
Performers: Grant Park Chorus; Peter Sovitsky, tenor; Christopher Bell, Conductor Composition Date: 1998 — 1999 Recording Date: Jun 2011
Sonnets of Desire, Longing, and Whimsy		7:38	Stacy Garrop; Edna St. Vincent Millay, Poet
Performers: Grant Park Chorus; Christopher Bell, Conductor Composition Date: 2004 Recording Date: Jun 2011
	Sonnets of Desire, Longing, and Whimsy: I. Now by this moon, before this moon shall wane	2:44	Stacy Garrop; Edna St. Vincent Millay, Poet
	Performers: Grant Park Chorus; Christopher Bell, Conductor Composition Date: 2004 Recording Date: Jun 2011
	Sonnets of Desire, Longing, and Whimsy: II. Time does not bring relief; you all have lied	3:13	Stacy Garrop; Edna St. Vincent Millay, Poet
	Performers: Grant Park Chorus; Christopher Bell, Conductor Composition Date: 2004 Recording Date: Jun 2011
	Sonnets of Desire, Longing, and Whimsy: III. I shall forget you presently, my dear	1:40	Stacy Garrop; Edna St. Vincent Millay, Poet
	Performers: Grant Park Chorus; Christopher Bell, Conductor Composition Date: 2004 Recording Date: Jun 2011
Acrostic Song		4:47	David Del Tredici
Performers: Grant Park Chorus; Amy Conn, soprano; Christopher Bell, Conductor Composition Date: 1974 — 1975 Recording Date: Jun 2011
Seven Motets for the Church’s Year		10:49	Ned Rorem
Performers: Grant Park Chorus; Christopher Bell, Conductor; Katherine Gray Noon, soprano Composition Date: 1977 — 1986 Recording Date: Jun 2011
	Seven Motets for the Church’s Year: While All Things Were in Quiet Silence	1:52	Ned Rorem
	Performers: Grant Park Chorus; Christopher Bell, Conductor Composition Date: 1977 — 1986 Recording Date: Jun 2011
	Seven Motets for the Church’s Year: Before the Morning Star Begotten	:57	Ned Rorem
	Performers: Grant Park Chorus; Christopher Bell, Conductor Composition Date: 1977 — 1986 Recording Date: Jun 2011
	Seven Motets for the Church’s Year: Lay Up for Yourselves	1:00	Ned Rorem
	Performers: Grant Park Chorus; Christopher Bell, Conductor Composition Date: 1977 — 1986 Recording Date: Jun 2011
	Seven Motets for the Church’s Year: Praise Him Who Was Crucified	:59	Ned Rorem
	Performers: Grant Park Chorus; Christopher Bell, Conductor Composition Date: 1977 — 1986 Recording Date: Jun 2011
	Seven Motets for the Church’s Year: God Is Gone Up	1:23	Ned Rorem
	Performers: Grant Park Chorus; Christopher Bell, Conductor Composition Date: 1977 — 1986 Recording Date: Jun 2011
	Seven Motets for the Church’s Year: Today the Holy Spirit Appeared	2:19	Ned Rorem
	Performers: Grant Park Chorus; Katherine Gray Noon, soprano; Christopher Bell, Conductor Composition Date: 1977 — 1986 Recording Date: Jun 2011
	Seven Motets for the Church’s Year: Rejoice We All in the Lord	2:17	Ned Rorem
	Performers: Grant Park Chorus; Christopher Bell, Conductor Composition Date: 1977 — 1986 Recording Date: Jun 2011
Five Romantic Miniatures		6:37	Paul Crabtree
Performers: Grant Park Chorus; Christopher Bell, Conductor; Hoss Brock, tenor Composition Date: 1999 Recording Date: Jun 2011
	Five Romantic Miniatures: Abe	1:37	Paul Crabtree
	Performers: Grant Park Chorus; Christopher Bell, Conductor Composition Date: 1999 Recording Date: Jun 2011
	Five Romantic Miniatures: Lisa	:42	Paul Crabtree
	Performers: Grant Park Chorus; Christopher Bell, Conductor Composition Date: 1999 Recording Date: Jun 2011
	Five Romantic Miniatures: Homer	:50	Paul Crabtree
	Performers: Grant Park Chorus; Christopher Bell, Conductor Composition Date: 1999 Recording Date: Jun 2011
	Five Romantic Miniatures: Marge	1:16	Paul Crabtree
	Performers: Grant Park Chorus; Hoss Brock, tenor; Christopher Bell, Conductor Composition Date: 1999 Recording Date: Jun 2011
	Five Romantic Miniatures: Homer	2:11	Paul Crabtree
	Performers: Grant Park Chorus; Christopher Bell, Conductor Composition Date: 1999 Recording Date: Jun 2011
Sleep		4:24	Eric Whitacre; Charles Anthony Silvestri, Poet
Performers: Grant Park Chorus; Christopher Bell, Conductor Composition Date: 2000 Recording Date: Jun 2011