Editorial Reviews As a guest of Michael Feinstein, she recently performed with the actor Alvin Epstein at Carnegie Hall in a program of Kurt Weill songs. She continues to tour that show with Mr. Epstein. The songs-part folk, part jazz, part sung poem-tell stories in the poet-singer tradition. Beth Anne's crystalline voice takes us to the ancient city of Ur; the inside of a tree; the unraveling of love in the mountains above Arles in France. The musical settings create a strong, often Mediterranean feeling with guitars, bazouki, harp, warm pianos, stark horns. Beth Anne began writing topical material for her one-woman shows in her early twenties. About five years ago her writing took a turn when she had "a dream that wrote itself. I was walking alone through the streets of Jerusalem in great danger. In a bazaar in the old city I met a dark-haired woman holding a jewel to the light. The image and my 'walk' catapulted me into an exploration of my cultural history." Along the way Beth Anne delved into Yiddish folk song. A "surprise visitor" on the album is Dremlen Feygl af di Tsvayn, a Yiddish lullaby to an orphaned child in the Vilna ghetto by poet Leah Rudnitska. Beth Anne paired it with her song All the Way Home, a poignant story of her mother's childhood. "I kept getting further and further back in time," says the artist of the writing of the album. She ends with the acapella Psalm, a lovesong to King David. From the siren call of Sailor, the vivid recollection of a crumbling love in Under a Starry Sky, the urgency of Walking in Jerusalem, Beth Anne's songs seem both ancient and modern, satisfying our need for deep feeling and beautiful words.
About the Artist
Beth Anne Cole was born in Winnipeg, Canada and grew up in Ottawa. She made her singing debut on CBC television and radio at age 15. After training as an actress in England, she captured the hearts of theater-goers for four seasons at the Shaw Festival in Canada in such operettas as Rose Marie and The Desert Song, toured Canada and the U.S. in her one-woman show of songs and poetry, composed for PBS-TV's Sesame Street and wrote and performed critically acclaimed programs for CBC radio on Parisian cabaret singer Yvette Guilbert and composer Harold Arlen. She now lives and performs in New York City.
Album Description
Gifts in the Old, Old Ground is an evocative album of 12 original songs and stories that give voice to a poetic and passionate world, a world of dream-like landscapes and images that weave through layers of time and history.
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ASIN: B0000798LV Release Date: 1998-02-01 |
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Album Description
Gifts in the Old, Old Ground is an evocative album of 12 original songs and stories that give voice to a poetic and passionate world, a world of dream-like landscapes and images that weave through layers of time and history.The songs-part folk, part jazz, part sung poem-tell stories in the poet-singer tradition. Beth Anne's crystalline voice takes us to the ancient city of Ur; the inside of a tree; the unraveling of love in the mountains above Arles in France. The musical settings create a strong, often Mediterranean feeling with guitars, bazouki, harp, warm pianos, stark horns.
Beth Anne began writing topical material for her one-woman shows in her early twenties. About five years ago her writing took a turn when she had "a dream that wrote itself. I was walking alone through the streets of Jerusalem in great danger. In a bazaar in the old city I met a dark-haired woman holding a jewel to the light. The image and my 'walk' catapulted me into an exploration of my cultural history." Along the way Beth Anne delved into Yiddish folk song. A "surprise visitor" on the album is Dremlen Feygl af di Tsvayn, a Yiddish lullaby to an orphaned child in the Vilna ghetto by poet Leah Rudnitska. Beth Anne paired it with her song All the Way Home, a poignant story of her mother's childhood. "I kept getting further and further back in time," says the artist of the writing of the album. She ends with the acapella Psalm, a lovesong to King David.
From the siren call of Sailor, the vivid recollection of a crumbling love in Under a Starry Sky, the urgency of Walking in Jerusalem, Beth Anne's songs seem both ancient and modern, satisfying our need for deep feeling and beautiful words.
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Knockin' Myself Out: 1927-1951
Gioachino Rossini: String Sonatas 1,3,4,5
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Glazunov: Suite Caractèristique; Le Chant du Destin; Préludes