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Listen to a RealAudio (G2) stream of the first movement ("Lonesome Traveler") of this work performed by the Middlebury College Choir, Emory Fanning, conductor.
Listen to a RealAudio (G2) stream of the second movement ("Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies") of this work performed by the Bel Canto Company of North Carolina, David Pegg, conductor.
Listen to a RealAudio (G2) stream of the third movement ("Careless Love") of this work performed by the Bel Canto Chamber Singers of New Hampshire, Jane Woods, conductor.
Listen to a RealAudio (G2) stream of the fourth movement ("Clementine") of this work performed by the Bel Canto Chamber Singers of New Hampshire, Jane Woods, conductor.
Listen to a RealAudio (G2) stream of the fifth movement ("Shenandoah") of this work performed by the Bel Canto Company of North Carolina, David Pegg, conductor
(a CD recording is available from the Bel Canto Company)
Listen to a RealAudio (G2) stream of the fourth movement ("Clementine") of this work performed by the Ball State University "Statesmen", Douglas Amman, conductor.
Download an an MP3 file of the first movement ("Lonesome Traveler") of this work performed by the Middlebury College Choir, Emory Fanning, conductor.
Download an an MP3 file of the second movement ("Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies") of this work performed by the Bel Canto Company of North Carolina, David Pegg, conductor.
Download an an MP3 file of the third movement ("Careless Love") of this work performed by the Bel Canto Chamber Singers of New Hampshire, Jane Woods, conductor.
Download an an MP3 file of the fourth movement ("Clementine") of this work performed by the Bel Canto Chamber Singers of New Hampshire, Jane Woods, conductor.
Download an an MP3 file of the fifth movement ("Shenandoah") of this work performed by the Bel Canto Company of North Carolina, David Pegg, conductor.
Download an an MP3 file of the fourth movement ("Clementine") of this work performed by the Ball State University "Statesmen", Douglas Amman, conductor.
Commissioned by the Bel Canto Chamber Singers, Hanover, New Hampshire.
American Ballads are dramatized and semi-staged presentations of familiar American folksongs. These tunes, favorites from my childhood, are rich in color, personality and humor. They beckon for the stage! Thus, in my arrangements for chorus and flute, I have endeavored to create musical-theatrical portraits of these delightful ballads.
Notes by the composer
Lonesome Traveler: Measures 4-12 are entirely to be sung by soli. (The "tutti" marking in m. 6 is in error.)
Measure 110: Return to straight rhythm (from swing)
Shenandoah: Measure 54 alto, the second syllable of "away" should be moved to measure 55, beat 1 (to match the soprano part)