We The Poet [Explicit Lyrics]

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Album Description
We The Poet is Arol Wulf-Zendik's vocal debut—the gripping, gutsy emergence of an evolving musical force. Spontaneously improvised from beginning to end, this searing mix of blues, ballads and in-your-face rock and roll is an experience above and beyond corporate-crafted radio fluff. Personal stories and social commentary—both burn with Wulf-Zendik's hard-won emotional integrity, her passion and love of LIfe. Recorded live in concert—and in the studios of Zendik Communal Arts—We The Poet heralds the beauty and backbone of a true artistic revolutionary. Features the righteous spoken-word fury of "How Many."

We The Poet [Explicit Lyrics]

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The Most Beautiful Recorded Tenor Voice?
Very, very truncated.
incomplete pleasure
Finally available on CD!

Babes in Toyland / The Red Mill
Victor Herbert , Kenny Baker , and Eileen Farrell
Manufacturer: Decca Broadway
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Release Date: 2002-07-30

Tracks:

Opening - From Babes in Toyland (Herbert & MacDonough) with Kenny Baker and Karen Kemple
Toyland
Floretta
Never Mind Bo-Peep, We Will Find Your Sheep
March of the Toys
I Can't Do the Sum
Go To Sleep, Slumber Deep
Song of the Poet
The Military Ball
Hail to Christmas
Finale: He Won't Be Happy Till He Gets It and March of the Toys
When You're Pretty and the World Is Fair - From The Red Mill (Blossom & Herbert) with Wilbur Evans, Eileen Farrell, and Felix Knight
Moonbeams
In the Isle of Our Dreams
Because You're You
Every Day is Ladies' Day With me
The Streets of New York

Customer Reviews:

The Most Beautiful Recorded Tenor Voice?.......2005-06-22

Is any recorded, tenor, singing voice as lovely as Kenny Baker's? As a child, I often heard him during the 1930s on the Jack Benny show, but have scarcely thought of him since. Amazon.com offers him on four CDs: BABES IN TOYLAND, LOVE WALKED IN, THE STARLIT HOUR and WEILL FROM BERLIN TO BROADWAY. Over the years, I have heard the recorded voices of many tenors, mostly operatic. Their fine voices were excellently trained, often to a wider range and more difficult music. But note for note, their sound as recorded is not I think as sheerly beautiful as Kenny Baker's. A splendid, unspoiled, unstrained, natural gift, put to disciplined and tasteful use! His enunciation is remarkably clear, and his musical line, perfectly smooth. He makes each song a different story, as in the six pieces here from BABES IN TOYLAND.

My claim is easy to test. This website has CDs with excerpts for listening to the best tenors of the 20th century, including Enrico Caruso, John McCormack, Giovanni Martinelli, Beniamino Gigli, Tito Schipa, Richard Tauber, Richard Crooks, Jussi Bjoerling, Morton Downey, Mario Lanza, Giuseppe di Stefano, Nicolai Gedda, Jan Peerce, Leopold Simoneau, Fritz Wunderlich, Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras. Of course, the earlier the career, the greater the damage to the recorded voice from primitive technology. Heard live, who knows which voice was most beautiful? But at least we have what earlier centuries could only imagine: lasting copies of live performances. Listen to Kenny Baker's voice on tracks 2 and 8 of BABES IN TOYLAND, and then compare.

The numbers from THE RED MILL will make you want to hear more. This operetta, also composed by Victor Herbert, was first produced in 1906, three years after BABES IN TOYLAND. "Moonbeams" (well sung by Eileen Farrell) is lovely; "Because You're You" (a duet between Farrell and Felix Knight) is quite simple but surprisingly affecting. The last two are the best: "Every Day Is Ladies' Day with Me," and "In Old New York." They are patter songs, perhaps inspired by, and surely as deft, as the ones that Gilbert and Sullivan were writing two decades earlier. Both are sung by Wilbur Evans, in a rich baritone, with perfect enunciation and marvelous comic flair. Great fun!

The selections on this CD were recorded in 1944 and 1945, then released in 1946 on both 78s and 10" LPs. For this CD, they were remastered from wartime lacquered-glass originals. Baker and Evans emerge in radiant form, surely much closer to live sound than reached our family radio via AM transmission 65 years ago. The orchestral and choral sound is less attractive. Poorly miked?

Very, very truncated........2002-12-09

The scores of Victor Herbert's "Babes in Toyland" and "The Red Mill" are lovely classics, but the incomplete scores represented by this Decca Broadway remastering of its antiquated 78s are not the best reprentation. My advice: wait for the John McGlinn "Babes in Toyland" to be released. As for "The Red Mill", you'd do better to pick up the Ohio Light Opera's double-CD from Albany Records.

incomplete pleasure.......2002-11-09

Two terrible mistakes keep this from 5 stars.. BABES IN TOYLAND is not complete as they are missing the delightful IN THE TOYMAKER'S WORKSHOP. Why? In THE RED MILL they use a butchered take of EVERY DAY IS LADIES DAY WITH ME. Again, why?
John McGlinn will be out with a complete BABES soon - and there is a lot of music in it - so you may want to wait.

Finally available on CD!.......2002-08-01

Decca's 1946 album of selections from Victor Herbert's celebrated musical was a welcome addition to record libraries, covering most of the major songs plus some of the delightful dance music. The album was reissued as a ten-inch Lp in 1949. A later reissue in 1957 dropped 4 songs to fit the score on one side of a twelve-inch Lp backed by six selections from Herbert's THE RED MILL. That pairing is reproduced here but the CD contains the complete BABES IN TOYLAND program! It's nice to have it back too! Nice of Decca to give us this early Christmas present this year. But BABES IN TOYLAND is a score that enchants all year round. How strange that no other complete recording exists.

Tracks:

The Circle of Life - Kingston SO/Glen Fast
I Just Can't Wait To Be King - Kingston SO/Glen Fast
Can You Feel the Love Tonight - Kingston SO/Glen Fast
The Lion Sleeps Tonight - City of Prague Phil/Colin Frechter
Hakuna Matata - Kingston SO/Glen Fast
Carnival of the Animals: Introduction-Royal March of the Lion - American PO/Barry Faldner
Carnival of the Animals: Wild Asses - American PO/Barry Faldner
Carnival of the Animals: The Aquarium - American PO/Barry Faldner
Carnival of the Animals: Aviary - American PO/Barry Faldner
Carnival of the Animals: The Swan - American PO/Barry Faldner
Carnival of the Animals: Finale - American PO/Barry Faldner
William Tell Overture - Ljublijana SO/Anton Nanut
Radetsky March - Sofia SO/Barry Faldner
Give a Little Whistle - Kingston SO/Glen Fast
When You Wish Upon A Star - Kingston SO/Glen Fast
I've Got No Strings - Kingston SO/Glen Fast
Turn Of The Old Music Box - Kingston SO/Glen Fast
Hi Diddle-dee-dee (an Actor's Life for Me) - Kingston SO/Glen Fast
When You Wish Upon A Star (reprise) - Kingston SO/Glen Fast
Symphonie Fantastique: March of the Scaffold - Ljublijana SO/Anton Nanut
Hebrides Ov Op.26: Fingal's Cave - Ljublijana SO/Marko Munih
The Magic Flute Ov, K.620 - Ljublijana SO/Marko Munih

Tracks:

(Just) Whistle While You Work - Kingston SO/Glen Fast
I'm Wishing - Kingston SO/Glen Fast
With A Smile And A Song - Kingston SO/Glen Fast
Some Day My Prince Will Come - Kingston SO/Glen Fast
One Song - Kingston SO/Glen Fast
Heigh-Ho - Kingston SO/Glen Fast
The Nutcracker Ste, Op.71a: Miniature Ov - Ljublijana SO/Marko Munih
The Nutcracker Ste, Op.71a: March - Ljublijana SO/Marko Munih
The Nutcracker Ste, Op.71a: Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy - Ljublijana SO/Marko Munih
The Nutcracker Ste, Op.71a: Russian Dance - Ljublijana SO/Marko Munih
The Nutcracker Ste, Op.71a: Arabian Dance - Ljublijana SO/Marko Munih
The Nutcracker Ste, Op.71a: Chinese Dance - Ljublijana SO/Marko Munih
The Nutcracker Ste, Op.71a: Dance of the Pipe Flutes - Ljublijana SO/Marko Munih
The Nutcracker Ste, Op.71a: Waltz of the Flowers - Ljublijana SO/Marko Munih
Colonel Hathi's March - City of Prague PO/Colin Frechter
The Bare Necessities - City of Prague PO/Colin Frechter
I Wanna Be Just Like You - City of Prague PO/Colin Frechter
Poet and Peasant Ov - Ljublijana SO/Anton Nanut
'L'Arlesienne' Ste No.2: Farandole - Ljublijana SO/Marko Munih
The Love of Three Oranges March - American PO/Barry Faldner
Finlandia - Ljublijana SO/Marko Munih
'Eine Kleine Nachtmusik' (A Little Night Music) (Ser in G, K.525 Allegro) - Ljublijana SO/Alexander Von Pitamic

Tracks:

Belle - Kingston SO/Glen Fast
Beauty and the Beast - Kingston SO/Glen Fast
Be Our Guest - City of Prague PO/Colin Frechter
The Sleeping Beauty Ballet Ste, Op.66: Introduction, The Tree Fairy - Volgograd SO/Edward Serov
The Sleeping Beauty Ballet Ste, Op.66: Adagio, Pas d'action - Volgograd SO/Edward Serov
The Sleeping Beauty Ballet Ste, Op.66: Pas de caricature - Volgograd SO/Edward Serov
The Sleeping Beauty Ballet Ste, Op.66: Panorama - Volgograd SO/Edward Serov
The Sleeping Beauty Ballet Ste, Op.66: Waltz - Volgograd SO/Edward Serov
Arabian Nights - Kingston SO/Glen Fast
Prince Ali - Kingston SO/Glen Fast
A Whole New World - Kingston SO/Glen Fast
One Jump Ahead - Kingston SO/Glen Fast
Scheherazade, Op.35: The Sea and Sinbad's Ship - Ljublijana SO/Anton Nanut
Dumbo Overture - City of Prague PO/Colin Frechter
March Militaire - Sofia SO/Barry Faldner
'Peer Gynt' Ste No.1, Op.46: In The Hall of the Mountain King - Ljublijana SO/Andrew Schenck
Light Cavalry Ov - Ljublijana SO/Marko Munih

Tracks:

If I Knew You - City of Prague PO/Colin Frechter
Just Around The River Bend - City of Prague PO/Colin Frechter
Colours Of The Wind - City of Prague PO/Colin Frechter
Peter and the Wolf (Symphonic Tale for Children), Op.67: Andantino (Peter) - American PO/Barry Faldner
Peter and the Wolf (Symphonic Tale for Children), Op.67: Allegro (The Bird) - American PO/Barry Faldner
Peter and the Wolf (Symphonic Tale for Children), Op.67: Moderato No.11 (The Cat) - American PO/Barry Faldner
Peter and the Wolf (Symphonic Tale for Children), Op.67: Poco Pin Andante No.15 (The Grandfather) - American PO/Barry Faldner
Peter and the Wolf (Symphonic Tale for Children), Op.67: Andantino, Come Prima No.17 (Peter) - American PO/Barry Faldner
Peter and the Wolf (Symphonic Tale for Children), Op.67: Andante No.18 (The Grandfather) - American PO/Barry Faldner
Peter and the Wolf (Symphonic Tale for Children), Op.67: Andante Molto No.19 (The Wolf) - American PO/Barry Faldner
Peter and the Wolf (Symphonic Tale for Children), Op.67: Andante No.24 (The Duck) - American PO/Barry Faldner
Peter and the Wolf (Symphonic Tale for Children), Op.67: Vivo No.30 (The Bird) - American PO/Barry Faldner
Peter and the Wolf (Symphonic Tale for Children), Op.67: Poco Meno Mosso-Moderato No.35 (Peter) - American PO/Barry Faldner
Peter and the Wolf (Symphonic Tale for Children), Op.67: Allegro Moderato No.39 (The Hunters) - American PO/Barry Faldner
Peter and the Wolf (Symphonic Tale for Children), Op.67: Andante No.41 (Peter) - American PO/Barry Faldner
Peter and the Wolf (Symphonic Tale for Children), Op.67: Sostenuto-Listesso Tempo No.48... - American PO/Barry Faldner
Peter and the Wolf (Symphonic Tale for Children), Op.67: Andante-End No.53 (Peter) - American PO/Barry Faldner
Swan Lake Ballet: Scene (moderato) - Ljublijana SO/Marko Munih
Swan Lake Ballet: Waltz - Ljublijana SO/Marko Munih
Swan Lake Ballet: Swan Dance (allegro moderato) - Ljublijana SO/Marko Munih
Swan Lake Ballet: Scene (andante) - Ljublijana SO/Marko Munih
Swan Lake Ballet: Czardas (moderato) - Ljublijana SO/Marko Munih
Bibbidi-Bobbodi-Boo - City of Prague PO/Colin Frechter
A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes - City of Prague PO/Colin Frechter
We Can Do It - City of Prague PO/Colin Frechter
So This Is Love (Cinderella Waltz) - City of Prague PO/Colin Frechter
'Carmen Ste' No.1: The Toreadors - Ljublijana SO/Marko Munih
In the Steppes of Central Asia - Ljublijana SO/Marko Munih
1812 Ov, Op.49 (finale) - Ljublijana SO/Marko Munih
Marriage of Figaro Ov, K.492 - Ljublijana SO/Anton Nanut

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A little something different.......2007-01-10

I enjoyed this music and am using some of it to choreograph a little different "Disney" for my students.I think it will come in handy in the future as well.

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Complete Secular Songs (3cd)

Manufacturer: Hyperion UK
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Binding: Audio CD

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Release Date: 2004-01-13

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Clearings in the Sky

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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005LE69
Release Date: 2001-01-01

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Ser, Op.17 No.2
Tomorrow, Op.27 No.4
Cupid, Op.68 No.5
I Would Have Bound A Nosegay, Op.37 No.2
Mother-Talk, Op.43 No.2
Clearings In The Sky: She Had Reached The Low-Lying Meadow
Clearings In The Sky: She Is Solemnly Cheerful
Clearings In The Sky: Sometimes I Am Sad
Clearings In The Sky: A Poet Said...
Clearings In The Sky: At The Foot Of My Bed
Clearings In The Sky: If All This Is But A Poor Dream
Clearings In The Sky: We'll Love Each Other As Long As
Clearings In The Sky: You Gazed At Me With All Your Soul
Clearings In The Sky: The Lilacs Which Had Flowered
Clearings In The Sky: Two Columbines
Clearings In The Sky: Through What I've Suffered
Clearings In The Sky: I Keep A Medallion Of Her
Clearings In The Sky: It Will Be A Year Tomorrow
In My Garden At Night, Op.38 No.1
To Her, Op.38 No.2
Daisies, Op.38 No.3
The Pied Piper, Op.38 No.4
Sleep, Op.38 No.5
A-oo (The Quest), Op.38 No.6

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These songs must have been written for Amaize

Pora! Russian Romances
Alexander Borodin , Modest Mussorgsky , Sergey Rachmaninov , Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov , Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky , and Odekhiren Amaize
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Customer Reviews:

These songs must have been written for Amaize.......2004-04-07

My gripe with most recordings of "art songs" is that the performances are boring, as if the music has been fed through a vocal processor, technique overrides heart. This is never the case with Odekhiren Amaize, who makes each song his own. For my money, there is no voice or heart more perfectly suited to interpret these deep, rich Russian songs than his deep, rich Bass-Baritone...the combination of Rakhmaninov and Amaize is nothing short of amazing, and I was moved to tears on more than one occasion even though (not speaking Russian and not first having read the English translations) I didn't have a clue what the text was about. Absolutely stunning!

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How Like Ghosts Are We

Manufacturer: Silk Purse Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Tracks:

On the Trail of Tears (trad/DNL)
The Deserter/Brief Poem (trad/DNL)
Moreton Bay (trad/Frank the Poet)
A Ballad of Cole Younger/Suqullay yamanyawy (trad/DNL)
A Ballad of Roger Casement (trad/Yeats/DNL-- words by Yeats set to music by permission of A. P. Wat Ltd on behalf of Anne and Michael Yeats)
Isn't It Grand/The Laird o' Cockpen/Lady Owen's Delight (trad/DNL)
The Bird in the Bush (trad)
The Greenhorn Woodcutters (trad/Boulton/DNL)
Bold Johnny Barleycorn (trad/DNL)
The Road to Liz Bang Bodhran (DNL)
Farewell to Liverpool/Off2CA (trad/DNL)

Album Description

"How Like Ghosts Are We: trad/DNL songs beyond the Celtic Pale." In a way the title explains all. There is something haunted and feral to this album of Celtic Americana. David Nigel Lloyd recorded it in his small studio in the Southern Sierra Nevada where -over the last ten years-he has grown a little haunted and feral himself.

Because of this seclusion, DNL has little in common with the current Celtic Boom. On this album, he bears more of a resemblance to the British folk performers of the 1960s and the Gaelic poets that came in the century before them. However, the art of Celtic song has rarely if ever been handled like DNL handles it here. Though the mixing of traditional and original material has itself a long and honorable tradition, DNL sees traditional material with the eyes of a poet. He does not ask the traditional to accommodate the literary or vice versa. The two can sort things out for themselves. The result is much more edgy than most contemporary Celtic music.

The title, "How Like Ghosts Are We," is taken from the last verse of "On the Trail of Tears," the album's opening song. Sung to the familiar tune of "The Foggy Foggy Dew," it goes:

I wish you could see how like ghosts are we, Like some wretched souvenirs of our horrid plight, of our desperate might Of our making Is the Trail of Tears.

But the title is not to be taken only in this existential sense. It also refers to DNL's technique of inviting a tune's old meaning and associations to 'haunt' the new ones his words provide. Thus the traditional ghost haunts the literary tenant. More than half the album consists of these, as he calls them, trad/DNL songs. The balance being three traditional songs sung straight and one original song sung traditionally -more or less.

DNL is not the only literary tenant of this haunted house: "A Ballad of Roger Casement"** sets excerpts of two poems by William Butler Yeats to music. The lyrics of "The Laird o' Cockpen" are replaced with familiar quotations from T. S. Eliot. "The Greenhorn Woodcutters" is based on "The Loch Tay Boat Song," itself a literary ballad by Sir H. E. Boulton. "Moreton Bay" was originally a poem by a Nineteenth Century Australian convict known as Frank the Poet.

The form, the melodies and sensibilities of the songs on "Ghosts" derive recognizably from British and Irish traditional material. However, the instrumentation, particularly the use of pedal steel guitar on "The Greenhorn Woodcutters" and "Bold Johnny Barleycorn," is deliberately intended to give some of these ghosts American accents.

Although each of the album's eleven songs stands alone, they can also be treated as a whole: "Ghosts" begins with a personal song of immigration followed by five songs of prisoners and death; two songs of love (or something like it); a song of booze; a song of mirage; and ends with a song of immigration reconstructed. It is in many ways a very personal album even though it is populated with historical and mythical figures: Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, Captain Logan, the James and Younger Brothers, Roger Casement, God, Johnny Barleycorn, the Green Man and the Nut Brown Girl.

"How Like Ghosts Are We" is David Nigel Lloyd's fourth album. In its production he has followed his usual habit of recording the vocal and guitar or octar live so as to obtain a compelling performance; music that's good on paper is not necessarily music. Other instruments get added to the recording later. Among accompanying musicians are old friends from DNL's Mojave Desert Ceilidh Band. DNL's daughter Ursula, who was 12 at the time of the recording, played pennywhistle and assisted with the audio engineering. It is her portrait that haunts the cover of the CD. Gita, Ursula's mother and DNL's wife painted it.

Copyright 1991 by David Nigel Lloyd **The words from "Roger Casement" (extract 7 lines) and "The Ghost of Roger Casement" (extract: 4 lines) taken from "The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats are set to music by permission of A. P. Watt Ltd. on behalf of Anne and Michael Yeats.

Just for the Artist
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Just for the Artist
Various Artists
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Binding: Audio CD

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Release Date: 2005-04-05