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An Hour To Dance

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Whitman College Chorale & Chamber Singers: An Hour to Dance: Choral Music of Gwyneth Walker (2007 CD)

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Choral Music of Gwyneth Walker
Whitman Chorale and Chamber Singers
Robert Bode, conductor
17 World Premiere Recordings!

During the 2005-2006 season, Gwyneth Walker traveled across the United States working with a variety of musicians as they premiered and recorded her works. During a week spent in Walla Walla, WA, she worked with the choirs at Whitman College as they rehearsed and recorded this new program of choral music, which employs evocative texts by Langston Hughes, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, and Virginia Hamilton Adair, among others. Notes include the full song texts. (Description taken from the record label's web site.)
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Format: CD
Year Released/Length: 2007 / 77:00
Record Label: Gothic/Loft Records
Style/Genre: Classical choral
Voicing: Mixed choirs
A cappella?: No

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Song List:
Harlem Songs (2000) (text by Langston Hughes):
Spirituals - Harlem Night Song - Tambourines
God's Grandeur (2002) (text by Gerald Manley Hopkins)
An Hour to Dance (1997) (text by Virginia Hamilton Adair): Key Ring - Summary by the Pawns - The April Lovers - An Hour to Dance - Slow Scythe - White Darkness - Take My Hand
Three Days by the Sea (2004): The Bottom of the Sea - Gifts From the Sea - Down to the Sea
This Train (1998) (traditional texts)
Love - By the Water (1997) (traditional texts): Blow the Candles Out - Fare Thee Well - Banks of the Ohio