The Longfellow Chorus in Sound
Image, right: The Longfellow Chorus rehearses in Portland, Maine, on March 3, 2012.
Excerpts from the 2012 Longfellow Choral Festival
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Excerpts from the 2011 Longfellow Choral Festival
(Read the Program Notes for the Longfellow 204th Birthday Choral Festival: Longfellow, Liszt & Sullivan. This is a large file. Publication of the combination of text and photos in these program notes are protected through copyright 2011, The Longfellow Chorus, Inc. For permission to quote from these notes please contact Charles Kaufmann)
DownEast Magazine and Salt Institute "Salt Radio" audio feature
about the Longfellow 'February Frostbite' 2.5K Road Race (Congress Street, Portland, Maine, 8 AM, February 26, 2011)
The Golden Legend (1886) Arthur Sullivan (February 26 & 27, 2011, Portland, Maine, USA)
- Prologue
(Bradford Gleim, baritone; The Longfellow Chorus) - Nocte Surgentes
(The Longfellow Chorus) - Through every vein
(Brian Arreola, tenor; The Longfellow Chorus) - Slowly, slowly up the wall
(Tania Mandzy, mezzo-soprano) - O gladsome Light
(The Longfellow Chorus) - My Redeemer and my Lord
(Deborah Selig, soprano; Stef Burk, English horn) - Here am I too
(Deborah Selig, soprano; Bradford Gleim, baritone; The Longfellow Chorus) - The night is calm and cloudless
(Deborah Selig, soprano; The Longfellow Chorus) - Unbar the door!
(Brian Arreola, tenor; Deborah Selig, soprano; Bradford Gleim, baritone; The Longfellow Chorus) - Scene V
(Tania Mandzy, mezzo-soprano; Tyler Putnam, bass-baritone) - We are alone
(Brian Arreola, tenor; Deborah Selig, soprano. This version of the marriage vows by Longfellow & Sullivan could be sung at any wedding, with the Choral Epilogue as recessional) - Choral Epilogue: God sent his messenger, the rain
(The Longfellow Chorus)
Songs and Choruses of The 2011 Longfellow Chorus International Composers Competition, 3 PM, February 27, 2011
- Aftermath (Christopher M. Wicks)
(The Longfellow Chamber Chorus; Sarah Johnson, assistant conductor; Charles Kaufmann, bassoon) - The Singers (Jason A. Heald)
(Tania Mandzy, mezzo-soprano; Jesse Feinberg, piano; Charles Kaufmann, bassoon) - King Witlaf's Drinking Horn (Frank Vasi)
(The Longfellow Chorus; Jesse Feinberg, piano) - Living Poems (Arthur Sullivan, 1874)
(Tania Mandzy, mezzo-soprano; Jesse Feinberg, piano) - The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls (Valerie Crescenz)
(The Longfellow Chorus; Jesse Feinberg, piano; Sarah Johnson, assistant conductor) - The Village Blacksmith (George Chave)
(Tania Mandzy, mezzo-soprano; Jesse Feinberg, piano) - Musical Sufferings of John Kreisler (ETA Hoffmann/Longfellow/Christopher Kies)
(Bill Wieting; Morgan Strickland; Emily Quane; Julia Teitel; Thea Lobo; John Coons, Jake Cooper; Matt Wight; Jesse Feinberg; The Longfellow Chamber Chorus) - The Day Is Done (Ursula Kwong-Brown)
(Tania Mandzy, mezzo-soprano; Ursula Kwong-Brown and Jesse Feinberg, piano) - Mr. Finney's Turnip (an apocryphal poem, Mary Larew)
(The Longfellow Chorus) - A Winter's Night (Charles Kaufmann)
(Tania Mandzy, mezzo-soprano; Jesse Feinberg, piano; Charles Kaufmann, bassoon) - The Forget-me-nots of Angels (Mattie Ernst)
(The Longfellow Chorus; Sarah Johnson, assistant conductor) - Changed (Christopher M. Wicks)
(Tania Mandzy, mezzo-soprano; Jesse Feinberg, piano; Charles Kaufmann, bassoon) - The Builders (Lisa Vornberger Bennett)
(The Longfellow Chorus; Jesse Feinberg, piano)
Franz Liszt and the Cantata Finalists from The 2011 Longfellow Chorus International Composers Competition, 4:30 Matinee, February 26, 2011
Complete sound from the 2010 Longfellow 203rd Birthday Choral Concerts, February 27 & 28, 2010
Listen to a three-part Maine Public Radio
interview with Angela M. Brown, soprano, Robert Honeysucker, baritone, and Charles Kaufmann, director, about Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Black History Month and The Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 203rd Birthday Choral Concerts.
(Read the Program Notes for the Longfellow Chorus Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 203rd Birthday Choral Concert. This is a large file. Publication of the combination of text and photos in these program notes are protected through copyright 2010, The Longfellow Chorus, Inc. For permission to quote from these notes please contact Charles Kaufmann)
The complete The Death of Minnehaha (1899), Opus 30, No. 2, by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, with The Longfellow Chorus and Orchestra, Angela M. Brown, soprano, and Robert Honeysucker, baritone, Charles Kaufmann, conductor, recorded in Portland, Maine, in February 2010. The Longfellow Chorus Orchestra is reading from photocopies of the original orchestral parts used by members of the New York Philharmonic under the direction of Coleridge-Taylor, himself, at the Norfolk, CT, Music Festival in June 1910 — Coleridge-Taylor's last appearance in the US (courtesy Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, Yale University).
Robert Honeysucker, with The Longellow Chorus, sings The Quadroon Girl
, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's setting of Longfellow's 1842 poem on slavery, for baritone solo and women's chorus, here in a new orchestration in the style of Coleridge-Taylor (with a nod to the Tannhäuser Overture) by Charles Kaufmann. Source: a 1906 piano/vocal score belonging to "Member 51" of the Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Society of Washington, D.C., which was used in the American premiere conducted by Coleridge-Taylor, with Harry T. Burleigh, baritone soloist. [Moorland-Spingarn Research Center at Howard University.]
Angela M. Brown sings the only known recording of The Stars
from Five Fairy Ballads, Opus 54, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's settings of five poems by Kathleen Easmon Simango (1892-1924). This orchestration for string octet by Charles Kaufmann was compiled from vocal score and string parts found in The Library of Congress. The Stars is remarkable for the evident influence of pre-Jazz-Age African-American musicians visiting Coleridge-Taylor in London before 1910, such as J. Rosamond Johnson (1873-1954). What appears to be the earliest manuscript of the song is in the archives of the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center at Howard University.
Two Southern Love Songs
(Longfellow's She Is a Maid of Artless Grace and If Thou Art Sleeping, Maiden) Opus 12, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor; Mark Sprinkle, tenor, Geoffrey Wieting, pianist
The Longfellow Chorus and Orchestra perform the complete The Black Knight, a Longfellow cantata by Edward Elgar, 1893 (recording of a February 2009 concert performance in Portland, Maine). If anyone wants to know where Henry James got his inspiration for much of his short fiction, look no further than Longfellow's translation of The Black Knight:
The Longfellow Chamber Chorus sings excerpts from "A Longfellow Winter" by Longfellow Chorus founding director Charles Kaufmann:
The First Three Years of The Longfellow Chorus International Composers Competition, 2008-2010: A complete list of MP3 Files of the Twenty-Nine Winning Submissions:
Excerpts from the winning submissions to the 2009-2010 Longfellow Chorus International Composers Competition:
- Co-winning 2009-2010 Cantata Entries:
- 2009-2010 Cantata Alternate Finalist
- The Poet's Calender (piano-vocal version) by John Kramer as sung by The Longfellow Chamber Chorus
- 2009-2010 Winning Tenor Song Entries (performed by Mark Sprinkle, tenor, Geoffrey Wieting, pianist, and Jara Goodrich, harpist):
- Winning 2009-2010 Choruses:
Winning Entries from the 2008-2009 Longfellow Chorus International Composers Competition
- 2007-2008 Competition Choruses (accompanied by Shirley L. Curry, pianist)
- The Singers
by Bob Moore
Interested in The Singers? Send an email inquiry to Bob Moore - The Singers
by David Hamilton, Stuart Bailey, tenor solo
Interested in The Singers? Send an email inquiry to David Hamilton - Daybreak
by Christopher Wicks, sung by The Longfellow Chamber Chorus—the background bird-chirping is from The Longfellow Chamber Chorus's live recording, made on Longfellow's side porch, Longfellow National Historic Site, Cambridge, MA, August 3, 2008
Interested in Daybreak? Send an email inquiry to Christopher Wicks - The Slave Singing at Midnight
by Peter J. Durow, Bill Wieting, baritone solo
The Slave Singing at Midnight has subsequently been published by Colla Voce Music
Interested in The Slave Singing at Midnight? Send an email inquiry to Peter J. Durow - Finale from Tales of a Wayside Inn, Pt. I
by Micky Landau, sung by The Longfellow Chamber Chorus
Interested in Finale? Send an email inquiry to Micky Landau - A Psalm of Life
by Jason Heald
Interested in A Psalm of Life? Send an email inquiry to Jason Heald
- Longfellow's Kings by Daniel Morel, sung by The Longfellow Chamber ChorusInterested in Longfellow's Kings? Send an email inquiry to Daniel Morel
- Christmas Bells
by Lauren Bernofsky
Interested in Christmas Bells? Send an email inquiry to Lauren Bernofsky
- 2007-2008 Competition Solo Songs performed by Heidi Kim, soprano, Sarah Johnson, soprano, Shirley L. Curry, pianist
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Mission Statement of The Longfellow Chorus, Inc.:
The Corporation shall organize and maintain a chorus to perform and
record vocal and choral settings of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poetry, written from 1840 to the present, shall inspire and commission new vocal and choral
settings of Longfellow's poetry, and shall perform choral music of the
Romantic and immediate post-Romantic eras, ca. 1825-1920.
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