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Two Views of Beth McDonald
by C. Michael Bailey
With singer/songwriter Beth McDonald, music is intensely personal. All aspects of music--performance, composition, arrangement, song choice and delivery--are branded with McDonald's vision. Her liner notes are full of mention of her family, motherhood and love. Her style is 1920s-1940s standards waxing nostalgic (yet still freshly modern) of the simpler, more wholesome things in life. This feeling ...
The Charles Ives Songs Series 1: An Introduction
by C. Michael Bailey
American poet Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) did not pay the bills writing poetry. Stevens attended Yale and then the New York Law School before joining the American Bonding Company as staff council. From ABC, Stevens went on to become the vice-president of the New York Office of the Equitable Surety Company of St. Louis, Missouri. ...
The Beethoven Symphony Series 5: Two Seventh Symphonies - Vanska and Herreweghe
by C. Michael Bailey
Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92 stands alone among the nine symphonies as being more about the expression of rhythm and momentum than the exposition of melody. The symphony possesses melody, to be sure, but the emphasis on rhythm (coupled with Beethoven's carefully chosen melodies) plants a hook in the listener's psyche as ...
The Beethoven Symphony Series 4: Two Third Symphonies - Vanska and Herreweghe
by C. Michael Bailey
We are currently blessed with an embarrassment of riches from the ongoing recording of Beethoven symphony cycles by two fine orchestras and conductors. In the recent articles Two Beethoven Fifths and Two Beethoven Firsts, we took the bull by the horns and faced what is probably the most recognizable piece of classical music on record, the ...
The Beethoven Symphony Series 3: Two First Symphonies - Vanska and Herreweghe
by C. Michael Bailey
Though the modern listener may never know it, Beethoven composed after Haydn and Mozart, but not after Wagner and Brahms. Acknowledged as the reformer of the sonata form as used in the symphony, Beethoven did compose two symphonies that, while ground breaking, remained in the established compositional mold of Haydn and Mozart's Classical symphonies. The majority ...
XMAS V: A Classical Christmas...L'Arte Del Mondo, Phoenix Chorale, Clare College Choir, Capella Romana, The Sixteen
by C. Michael Bailey
...In dulci jubilo. Classical music always provides a legion of new and old holiday music. This is a year for premiers for both newly composed music and newly discovered old music. Present is music of the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox traditions. And then, there is always Handel's Messiah. L'Arte Del Mondo
XMAS IV: Let it Snow, Let it Snow...Chet Baker, Bela Fleck, Karen Wilhelm, The Boilermaker Jazz Band
by C. Michael Bailey
...Let it snow! Stuck at home this Christmas? Here are four holiday collections to consider spinning with a fire in the fireplace and eggnog in the mug. Chet Baker Silent Nights: A Jazz Christmas Album Dinemec Jazz 2008 This music, recorded in 1987 a few ...
XMAS III: Al Jarreau, Tim Green and Trio Chambra, Lorenna McKennitt, Mariah Hortans and Mathias Sandberg
by C. Michael Bailey
Stuck at home this Christmas? Here are three holiday collections to consider spinning with a fire in the fireplace and eggnog in the mug. Al Jarreau Christmas Rhino Records 2008 Singer Al Jarreau's Christmas is one of those rare delights that over a 40-year career ...
XMAS II: Naxos Carol Collection, Straight No Chaser, The Synergy Brass Quintet, Leroy Anderson
by C. Michael Bailey
One cannot go wrong with traditional Christmas holiday music whether rendered by choir, college glee club, brass quintet, or America's own Leroy Anderson. Various Artists Naxos Carol Collection Naxos Records 2007 This collection is a no-brainer. Naxos has recorded, assembled and released a number of ...
XMAS I: Bela Fleck, Spyro Gyra, The Gospel Christmas Project, Holly Cole, Nova Contemporary Jazz Orchestra
by C. Michael Bailey
Not all holiday releases are for the pedestrian listener. Some albums require a commitment to stick it out long enough to find out if the music is inaccessible or simply an acquired taste on its way to becoming a holiday classic. Here are five holiday recordings that are well off the beaten path...or not. ...
