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The idea of a bluegrass mass is a good one -- check out a polka mass sometime if you're somewhere in the big crescent running from Buffalo down into Pennsylvania and over through Ohio to Toledo on a Sunday morning. Bluegrass might be thought of as country's classical music, with discipline and technique applied to fresh realizations of traditional forms. There's nothing really wrong with this effort by composer Carol Barnett and librettist Marisha Chamberlain -- the text alternates sections very loosely based on the texts of the Catholic mass with a verse ballad articulating basic Christian tenets. The VocalEssence chorus is the equal of any choir working in the U.S. today, and in the American anthems from Billings to Eric Whitacre that round out the disc they offer superior performances. The problem is that few bluegrass listeners would recognize the music in the main attraction as bluegrass. There is a bluegrass band called Monroe Crossing present, but the players seem a little unsure of what to do with the instruments amid rhythms that fluctuate between the free forms of contemporary choral music and simple strumming beats -- the driving forward motion that defines bluegrass, descended from traditional fiddle dance music and enlivened with ragtime and jazz, is completely absent. Nor is there any effort to make use of the distinctive bluegrass vocal quality often termed "high lonesome." There aren't any technical obstacles to including bluegrass-inflected singing or playing in a concert-music context -- check out the music of Michigan composer Evan Chambers, such as the Concerto for fiddle and violin, if you're interested in this kind of thing. But there's very little bluegrass feeling here -- just banjo, fiddle, mandolin, and bass dutifully plunking along.
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The World Beloved: A Bluegrass Mass (Carol Barnett)
Philip Brunelle, Conductor - VocalEssence Ensemble Singers, Ensemble, MainArtist - Carol Barnett, Composer - Monroe Crossing, Ensemble
(C) 2010 Clarion (P) 2010 Clarion
Philip Brunelle, Conductor - VocalEssence Ensemble Singers, Ensemble, MainArtist - Carol Barnett, Composer - Monroe Crossing, Ensemble
(C) 2010 Clarion (P) 2010 Clarion
Philip Brunelle, Conductor - VocalEssence Ensemble Singers, Ensemble, MainArtist - Carol Barnett, Composer - Monroe Crossing, Ensemble
(C) 2010 Clarion (P) 2010 Clarion
Philip Brunelle, Conductor - VocalEssence Ensemble Singers, Ensemble, MainArtist - Carol Barnett, Composer - Monroe Crossing, Ensemble
(C) 2010 Clarion (P) 2010 Clarion
Philip Brunelle, Conductor - VocalEssence Ensemble Singers, Ensemble, MainArtist - Carol Barnett, Composer - Monroe Crossing, Ensemble
(C) 2010 Clarion (P) 2010 Clarion
Philip Brunelle, Conductor - VocalEssence Ensemble Singers, Ensemble, MainArtist - Carol Barnett, Composer - Monroe Crossing, Ensemble
(C) 2010 Clarion (P) 2010 Clarion
Philip Brunelle, Conductor - VocalEssence Ensemble Singers, Ensemble, MainArtist - Carol Barnett, Composer - Monroe Crossing, Ensemble
(C) 2010 Clarion (P) 2010 Clarion
Philip Brunelle, Conductor - VocalEssence Ensemble Singers, Ensemble, MainArtist - Carol Barnett, Composer - Monroe Crossing, Ensemble
(C) 2010 Clarion (P) 2010 Clarion
Philip Brunelle, Conductor - VocalEssence Ensemble Singers, Ensemble, MainArtist - Carol Barnett, Composer - Monroe Crossing, Ensemble
(C) 2010 Clarion (P) 2010 Clarion
Philip Brunelle, Conductor - VocalEssence Ensemble Singers, Ensemble, MainArtist - Carol Barnett, Composer - Monroe Crossing, Ensemble
(C) 2010 Clarion (P) 2010 Clarion
Philip Brunelle, Conductor - VocalEssence Ensemble Singers, Ensemble, MainArtist - Carol Barnett, Composer - Monroe Crossing, Ensemble
(C) 2010 Clarion (P) 2010 Clarion
Philip Brunelle, Conductor - VocalEssence Ensemble Singers, Ensemble, MainArtist - Carol Barnett, Composer - Monroe Crossing, Ensemble
(C) 2010 Clarion (P) 2010 Clarion
O Praise The Lord Of Heaven (William Billings)
William Billings, Composer - Philip Brunelle, Conductor - VocalEssence Ensemble Singers, Choir, MainArtist
(C) 2010 Clarion (P) 2010 Clarion
The Peaceable Kingdom (Randall Thompson)
Philip Brunelle, Conductor - Randall Thompson, Composer - VocalEssence Ensemble Singers, Choir, MainArtist
(C) 2010 Clarion (P) 2010 Clarion
The Settling Years (Libby Larsen)
Philip Brunelle, Conductor - Libby Larsen, Composer - VocalEssence Ensemble Singers, Choir, MainArtist - Monroe Crossing, Ensemble
(C) 2010 Clarion (P) 2010 Clarion
The day is done (Stephen Paulus)
Philip Brunelle, Conductor - Stephen Paulus, Composer - VocalEssence Ensemble Singers, Choir, MainArtist
(C) 2010 Clarion (P) 2010 Clarion
Ecstatic Meditations (Aaron Jay Kernis)
Aaron Jay Kernis, Composer - Philip Brunelle, Conductor - VocalEssence Ensemble Singers, Choir, MainArtist
(C) 2010 Clarion (P) 2010 Clarion
Sing, My Soul, His Wondrous Love (Ned Rorem)
Ned Rorem, Composer - Philip Brunelle, Conductor - VocalEssence Ensemble Singers, Choir, MainArtist
(C) 2010 Clarion (P) 2010 Clarion
The Mask (text by G. Gwendolyn) (William Bolcom)
William Bolcom, Composer - Philip Brunelle, Conductor - VocalEssence Ensemble Singers, Choir, MainArtist - Monroe Crossing, Ensemble
(C) 2010 Clarion (P) 2010 Clarion
Native American Suite (Brent Michael Davids)
Philip Brunelle, Conductor - VocalEssence Ensemble Singers, Choir, MainArtist - Brent Michael Davids, Composer
(C) 2010 Clarion (P) 2010 Clarion
Water Night (Eric Whitacre)
Eric Whitacre, Composer - Philip Brunelle, Conductor - VocalEssence Ensemble Singers, Choir, MainArtist
(C) 2010 Clarion (P) 2010 Clarion
My Soul's Been Anchored in the Lord (Traditional)
Traditional, Composer - Philip Brunelle, Conductor - Moses Hogan, Composer - VocalEssence Ensemble Singers, Choir, MainArtist
(C) 2010 Clarion (P) 2010 Clarion
Album review
The idea of a bluegrass mass is a good one -- check out a polka mass sometime if you're somewhere in the big crescent running from Buffalo down into Pennsylvania and over through Ohio to Toledo on a Sunday morning. Bluegrass might be thought of as country's classical music, with discipline and technique applied to fresh realizations of traditional forms. There's nothing really wrong with this effort by composer Carol Barnett and librettist Marisha Chamberlain -- the text alternates sections very loosely based on the texts of the Catholic mass with a verse ballad articulating basic Christian tenets. The VocalEssence chorus is the equal of any choir working in the U.S. today, and in the American anthems from Billings to Eric Whitacre that round out the disc they offer superior performances. The problem is that few bluegrass listeners would recognize the music in the main attraction as bluegrass. There is a bluegrass band called Monroe Crossing present, but the players seem a little unsure of what to do with the instruments amid rhythms that fluctuate between the free forms of contemporary choral music and simple strumming beats -- the driving forward motion that defines bluegrass, descended from traditional fiddle dance music and enlivened with ragtime and jazz, is completely absent. Nor is there any effort to make use of the distinctive bluegrass vocal quality often termed "high lonesome." There aren't any technical obstacles to including bluegrass-inflected singing or playing in a concert-music context -- check out the music of Michigan composer Evan Chambers, such as the Concerto for fiddle and violin, if you're interested in this kind of thing. But there's very little bluegrass feeling here -- just banjo, fiddle, mandolin, and bass dutifully plunking along.
© TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 22 track(s)
- Total length: 00:59:36
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: VocalEssence Ensemble Singers Monroe Crossing Philip Brunelle
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Clarion
- Genre: Classical Vocal Music (Secular and Sacred) Choral Music (Choirs)
(C) 2010 Clarion (P) 2010 Clarion
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