Liberty Tree

Liberty Tree

American Music 1776-1861
The Boston Camerata - Joel Cohen
Erato 3984-21668-2 [CD]
Warner Classics 2564-69212-0 [CD]

Contents:

Liberty Tree

A broadside with music & Moses Kimball's manuscripts, Newburyport, Ma.

1. Yankee Doodle (aka The Lexington March)

William Billings: The Singing Master's Assistant, Boston, 1778

2. Chester

Anon., The American Patriotic Songbook, Boston, 1813

3. Liberty Tree

Moses Kimball's manuscripts, Newburyport, Ma.

4. The Boston March

William Billings: The Singing Master's Assistant, Boston, 1778

5. David's Lamentation (2 Samuel 18, 33)

Anon. / Greensleeves (tune)

6. Jefferson and Liberty

The Providence Gazette, May 25, 1793 (t) / The American Musical Miscellany, 1798

7. Rights of Woman

Jeremiah Ingall, The Christian Harmony, Exeter, New Hampshire, 1805

8. The Appletree

II. Dormant

Jacob French, Harmony of Harmony, Holyoke, Ma., 1802

9. Dormant

Moses Kimball's manuscripts, Newburyport, Ma.

10. Hero and Leander

Jeremiah Ingall, The Christian Harmony, Exeter, New Hampshire, 1805

11. Mary's dream (instr.)
    The Social Lyrist, Harrisburg, Pa., 1840
    Mary's dream (voice)

III. Jolly Soldier

Moses Kimball's manuscripts, Newburyport, Ma.

12. On the road to Boston (instr.)

The Social Harp, Philadelphia, 1855

13. Jolly Soldier

Unidentified early (c. 1800) anthology of flute music, Joel Cohen, coll.

14. Jefferson and Liberty (instr.)

Anon., War Songs for Anniversaries and Gatherings of Soldiers, Boston, n.d.

15. Abraham's Daughter or, Raw Recruits

Early broadsides and The Death of the Brave General Wolfe

16. Brave Wolfe

Unidentified early (c. 1800) anthology of flute music, Joel Cohen, coll.

17. Irish Air (instr.)

One Hundred Songs of Scotland, Boston, 1858 (t) / The Social Harp, Philadelphia, 1855

18. The Blue Bells of Scotland

IV. The Working Boy

Beadle's Dime School Melodist, New York, 1860

19. Working Boy

The Singer's Companion, New York, 1857

20. Poor Old Maids

Unidentified early (c. 1800) anthology of flute music, Joel Cohen, coll.

21. Bob in the Bed (instr.)

Anon., mid-19th-century sheet music

22. Ole Tare River

Knoxville Harmony, Knoxville, Tennesse, 1838

23. The Rose Tree

V. Parting Friends

Knoxville Harmony, Knoxville, Tennesse, 1838

24. Clovergreen (instr.)
    The Social Lyrist, Harrisburg, Pa., 1840
    Clovergreen (voice)

The Social Harp, Philadelphia, 1855

25. Parting Friends

Deacon Jenaziah

26. Ode on Science

Playing time: 58' 32"

Performers:
Boston Camerata
Anne Azéma (soprano), Margaret Swanson (soprano), Elizabeth Anker (contralto), Timothy Leigh Evans (tenor), Donald Wilkinson (baritone), Joel Frederiksen (bass, guitar), Robert Mealy (violin, viola), Anne Black (violin, viola), Emily Walhout (violoncello), Ann Trout (bass), Jesse Lepkoff (flutes), Kathryn Roth (flute), Michael Colver (cornet, recorder), Steven Lundahl (baritone horn, recorder), Ben Harms (percussion), Megan Henderson (fortepiano), Joel Cohen (guitar)] assisted by John Delorey (tenor), Stephen Falbel (bass), Daniel Rothschild Stone (boy soprano) (& Harvard University Choir (Peter Bailey, Michael Bassford, Lesley Chen, Wesley Chinn, Heather Craw, Alexandra Delaite, Rebecca Edwards, Brian Fehlau, Jeffrey Fowler, Navaz Karanjia, Nora Lehmann, Larry Parsons, Nathaniel Pastor, Carsten Reichel, Elizabeth Rodgers, Katherine Szal, Christopher Thorpe
Murray Forbes Somerville, dir. - Joel Cohen, dir.

Recording site and date:
Mechanics Hall, Worcester, USA [09/1997]

Reviewed in:
Diapason (#-p.):
Early Music America (Vol./#-p.):
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.):
Goldberg (#-p.):
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.):

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