Dan Tucker "Many Moons" Excerpts form the opera & Shakespeare songs Patrice Michaels-Bedi, soprano Lesley Goodman, mezzo Calland Metts, tenor Kurt Link, bass Shirley Trissell, piano
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1. Orpheus with his lute (Shakespeare, Henry VII)     From the Opera Many Moons	Dial up	Broadband
2. If her mother were alive (Lady Ysabel)	Dial up	Broadband
3. No one can do anything for me (King, Jester)	Dial up	Broadband
4. Have you brought the moon? (Princess, Jester)	Dial up	Broadband
5. She's just a little girl (Lady Ysabel)	Dial up	Broadband
6. I've been rather dense (All)	Dial up	Broadband
7. There must be many moons (Princess)	Dial up	Broadband
8. When that I was (Shakespeare, Twelfth Night)	Dial up	Broadband
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Music of Dan Tucker    "...Dan Tucker has gathered recordings of a baker's dozen of his works onto this disc including two songs from his children's opera Many Moons, Christmas songs Green Be the Garland and Puer Nobis Nascitur by the William Ferris Chorale, and his setting of an eighth century Anglo-Saxon song A Dream of the Rood...Tucker's formidable ability to write music is everywhere in evidence...The disc concludes with his graceful Pavane played by guitarist Christopher Laughlin." Dorothy Andries, Pioneer Press
Performed by: The William Ferris Chorale His Majestie's Clerkes Michael Blum Ron Combs Tia Danilovic Lesley Goodman Christopher Laughlin Teresa Orantes Anne Rabbat David Richards Shirley Trissell Robert Vanderschaaf
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1. Orpheus with his lute (Shakespeare, Henry VII)	Dial up	Broadband
2. When that I was (Shakespeare, Twelfth Night)	Dial up	Broadband
"Like most of my 15 Shakespeare settings, these were written for productions directed by my late cousin James O'Reilly. In the play, "Orpheus" is sung by Anne Boleyn's chambermaid Meg O'Fundy, Who is trying to soothe the queen's growing (and justified) fears that King Henry will have her beheaded. "When that I was" is a wistful epilogue sung by the clown Feste. Neither song has anything to do with the plot."
3. Song from the opera Many Moons     If her mother were alive (Lady Ysabel)	Dial up	Broadband
4. Song from the opera Many Moons     She's just a little girl (Lady Ysabel)	Dial up	Broadband
Songs 3 and 4: Lesley Goodman, mezzo-soprano; Shirley Trissell, piano. In the opera, completed in 1980, the arias are sung by Lady Ysabel. (She exists only in my libretto, not in the original James Thurber story.) "If her mother were alive" is a confidential aside to the audience: As the 10-year-old Princess Lenore is asking her father to bring her the moon, Lady Ysabel lets us know that she herself is fond of the widowed King, and would like to take a hand in Lenore's upbringing, preferably as her stepmother. After all efforts to grant the Princess' wish have apparently failed, Lady Ysabel sings "She's just a little girl" in attempt to comfort the stricken King. The opera "Many Moons," based on a story by James Thurber, was performed several times in the Chicago area, and in 1990 was presented in Budapest. Hungary, by the Franz Liszt Academy of Music.
5. Elegy	Dial up	Broadband
The violinist Aaron Rosand requested this piece in memory of a mutual friend, Bernard Elchen, who was also a violinist and teacher. (Rosand performs the "Elegy" on a CD under the Artkor label, ART 2735). The middle Eastern tonality reflects Bernie's Jewish heritage. Toward the end the sorrowing mood gives way to a dance: that is somehow like Bernie too.
6. Christmas Song: Puer Nobis Nascitur	Dial up	Broadband
7. Christmas Song: Green Be the Garland	Dial up	Broadband
"Green Be the Garland" (SATB), based on a French carol with new words by Irwin St. John Tucker, was published in 2007 by Emerrson Music Company (800-318-7214), www.emersonmusic.com
8. A Dream of the Rood	Dial up	Broadband
"A Dream of the Rood," a setting for chorus and harp of an 8th Century Anglo-Saxon poem put into standard English, was premiered in 1988 by His Majestie's Clerkes (now Bella Voce).
9. Romantic Piece     in the Manner of Johannes Brahms	Dial up	Broadband
10. Toccatina	Dial up	Broadband
11. The Way I Behaved (Peter Beagle)	Dial up	Broadband
12. Madre Mia (Netzahualcoyoti)	Dial up	Broadband
13. Pavane	Dial up	Broadband
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Chamber Symphony At this moment  CD is not available.
Recording of third movement	Dial up	Broadband
Symphony in three movements for small orchestra composed in 1961; won first prize in a 1963 national composition contest sponsored by the Richmond (Va.) Professional Institute, and in 1975 a contest sponsored by the North Side Symphony Orchestra of Chicago, which gave it repeated performances. Performed in March, 1999, by the Ars Viva Symphony Orchestra under Alan Heatherington.
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Mots d'Heures: Gousses, Rames
Available at record stores, or call (773) 989-2515
Mots d'Heures: Gousses, Rames, a short song cycle in fraudulent French, is available sung by Patrice Michaels on her Cedille Records CD "American Songs."
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Music Scores You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to open Music Score files. To install Acrobat Reader please click here.
Full score She is Just a Little Girl (Lady Ysabel's song from the opera 'Many Moons')	Download
Sample Scores
Shakespeare for singing:
Blow, blow, thou winter wind ('As you like it')	Download
Take, o take those lips away ('Measure for Measure')	Download
Get you hence, for I must go ('The Winter's Tale)	Download
Enter Titania ('A Midsummer Night's Dream')	Download
Come away, death ('Twelfth Night')	Download
Wedding Song ('As You Like It')	Download
Fear no more the heat o' the sun ('Cymbelino')	Download
Songs:
Sigh no more, ladies ('Much Ado About Nothing')	Download
Reply to the Song of the Sirens	Download
Romantic piece	Download
A fragment from Christopher Fry	Download
Promptu	Download
Solo Songs:
Poet asking for a shirt	Download
Look down fair moon	Download
La Guitarra	Download
Four little Chinese songs:
On parting from the pilgrim Ling Xe	Download
Hearing her play the harp	Download
She sings an old song	Download
Open window, spring wind	Download
Organ:
Overture to a Marriage	Download
Chorus and piano (for orchestra):
Christmas song of Thomas Merton (Choir, oboes and string quartet)	Download
In Praise of Jeoffry (Chorus, piano or orchestra in four movements)	Download
Saint Patrick's Harvest (Choir and piano) This piece has a separate set of words under another title: "The Saints who went before us"	Download
Show time	Download
Some adventures of Isabel	Download
Songs in Spanish:
La lena verde (Poema de Netrahualcoyotl)	Download
Copla	Download
Cancion del amigo	Download
El barco de papel	Download
Por el alto rio	Download
Memento	Download
La Guitarra	Download
Irish Prayers and Charms:
Ag Criost an siol	Download
A Blessing	Download
Banking the fire	Download
Charm to make love last	Download
To the Holy Trinity	Download
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How to Order CD's and Music Scores   Price Shipping & Handling CD's: Music of Dan Tucker Dan Tucker "Many Moons"   $12.00 $12.00 $3.00 $3.00 Music scores  Click for the List of Available Scores   $0.50 per page $0.25 per page Please Place an order via mail to: Dan Tucker, 2743 Highland Ave., Evanston, IL 60201   Mail order form
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