| Description |
1 audio disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Playing Time |
000223 000200 000228 000222 000220 000258 000833 000424 000257 000224 000350 000349 000320 000302 000429 000441 000345 000329 000227 |
| Performer |
Apollo's Fire (Sandra Simon, Abigail Haynes Lennox, Scott Mello, Paul Shipper, vocals ; Tina Bergmann, hammered dulcimer ; Rachel Jones, violin/fiddle ; René Schiffer, violoncello ; Gary Stewart, historical guitar, banjo ; Kathie Stewart, wooden flutes, penny whistle ; Jeannette Sorrell, harpsichord). |
| Event |
Recorded in June 2009 and June 2010 at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Cleveland Heights, Ohio. |
| Note |
Performed on period instruments. |
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"Conceived & arranged by Jeannette Sorrell"--p. [2] of insert. |
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Compact disc. |
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Program notes by Jeannette Sorrell with biographical information on the performers in English, discography, and texts (21 p. : ill., ports.) inserted in container. |
| Contents |
Part I. Appalacian wagon train. Appalachian barn dance (instrumental): Swinging on a gate -- Give the fiddler a dram / trad. New England / Appalachian fiddle tunes ; arr. Sorrell (2:23) -- Nobody but the baby / trad. Southern lullaby, collected by Alan Lomax ; arr. Sorrell (2:00) -- Hold on / Kentucky spiritual, collected by Cecil Sharp ; arr. Sorrell (2:28) -- The fox went out on a chilly night text: trad. Elizabethan & Appalachian; melody by Custer LaRue (2:22) -- Willie, prithee goe to bed / Thomas Ravenscroft, 1609; trad. New England/Appalachian ; arr. Sorrell (2:20) -- Ways of the world/Dusty Miller / trad. Appalachian ; arr. Bergmann/Schiffer (2:58) -- Part II. Love & death. The three ravens / Ravenscroft, 1610 ; trad. New England/Appalachian ; arr. Sorrell (8:33) -- Lark in the morning medley / trad. Irish ; arr. Stewart (4:24) -- Old Virginny / trad. Southern Appalachian, collected by Jean Ritchie ; arr. Sorrell (2:57) -- The girl who broke my heart / trad. Southern ; arr. Schiffer (2:24) -- Wild Bill Jones / trad. Appalachian/Kentucky ballad ; arr. Sorrell/Jones (3:50) -- Part III. Revival meeting. Wayfaring stranger / The Kentucky Harmony, 1816 (titled Judgement) ; arr. Sorrell (3:49) -- Glory in the meeting house / trad. Kentucky fiddle tune ; arr. Bergmann/Sorrell/Schiffer (3:20) -- Return again/Saviour, visit Thy plantation / The Sacred Harp, 1844 (3:02) -- What wondrous love is this / The Sacred Harp, 1844 ; arr. Sorrell (4:29) -- Dances from New England & Ireland. The Rakes of Kildare ; Langstrom's Pony ; The kitchen girl ; The gravel walk ; Over the Isles to America (4:41) -- Morning trumpet/Oh when shall I see Jesus / The Southern Harmony, 1835 (3:45) -- Down in the river to pray / trad. Southern folk hymn (3:29) -- Bonus track. Old Joe Clark (Appalachian barn dance-encore version) / Southern fiddle tune & breakdown dance ; arr. Sorrell (2:27). |
| Language |
Sung in English. |
| Note |
GMD: sound recording. |
| Subject |
Folk music -- United States.
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| Added Author |
Sorrell, Jeannette. Conductor. Arranger. Author of introduction, etc..
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| Added Title |
Early American gathering |
| Standard No. |
822252220520 |
| Music No. |
AV 2205 Avie |
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