Recordings
Searching the Heart
Searching the Heart, the sophomore album of soprano Andrea Edith Moore, returns her to the love of art song for piano and voice. This selection of songs and cycles from four of her contemporaries, composers Shanan Estreicher, Stacy Garrop, Tony Solitro, and Tarik Ghiradella, convey the emotional warmth and dynamism of her voice and the sensitivity and precision of Robert Brewer’s exquisite piano accompaniment. The songs range from grieving and wailing to prayerful resolve and twinkling wonder, proving this genre maintains the range and the power to move contemporary ears.
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Andrea Edith Moore: Soprano
Robert Brewer: Piano
Recorded and mixed by Rick Nelson at Baldwin Auditorium, Duke University, Durham, NC
Produced by Shanan Estreicher and Tarik Ghiradella
“A major new work... Five stars: A fascinating new chamber opera... Moore’s singing is hauntingly intense.”
Fanfare Magazine - Henry Fogel
"This is a slice of southern culture that could easily pass under your radar, and that would be unfortunate."
American Record Guide - Robert Moore
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Family Secrets: Kith & Kin
American composer, and native son of rural North Carolina, Daniel Thomas Davis’s haunting and humorous work Family Secrets: Kith & Kin —Part Chamber Opera – Part Song Cycle– fuses new, original texts of renowned authors of the New South: Allan Gurganus, Daniel Wallace, Frances Mayes, Jeffery Beam, Lee Smith, Michael Malone, and perhaps the last published and only known work set to music by the late Randall Kenan. This series of interconnected dramatic portraits explore and reveal secrets through the rooms of houses in small-town scenes that tell of murder, gossip, humor, regret, solace, and ultimately…forgiveness.
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Andrea Edith Moore Mother/Daughter
Jane Holding, Neighbor/Friend
Elizabeth Phelps, violin
Nicholas Photinos, cello
Bo Newsome, oboe, English horn
Lisa Kaplan: Piano
Hank Smith, Banjo
Timothy Myers, conductor
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Recorded and mixed by Ian Schreier at Manifold Studio, Pittsboro, NC
Produced by Elaine Martone
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Music for Falling & Flying
"In February of 2014, I (Nathan) was in my brother's car, headed to the University of Michigan for my first graduate school interview. It was Valentine's Day. I was a young composer, born and raised in Georgia, and I really had no idea what I was doing. We turned on NPR's 'This American Life', and Ira Glass introduced his next guest (it turned out be a rebroadcast from a few years prior):
"Act 3, Cold Stone Dreamery. This next story, like that last one we just heard, is about a guy who yearns for someone, yearns. And this someone is not giving him much back. And this someone may not actually be good for him at all. Except in this story, the guy is a duck."
-Ira Glass (This American Life, Feb. 10th, 2012)
I was hooked. The writing was evocative, smart, and human (even though the story is about a duck who falls in love with a rock). The author was short story writer Ben Loory and so I did what you do, and wrote to him. It was quite some time before he got back to me (NOTE FROM BEN: I'M SORRY, I'M BAD WITH EMAILS!), but when he did, it changed my life.
Ben and I have since collaborated on several projects together and this album is a culmination of our work—at least the work that we have done." -Nathan Hudson
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credits
released September 30, 2024
LINDA CYKERT, flute
ANDY HUDSON, clarinet
ISAAC PYATT, percussion
ANNIE JENG, piano
ANDREA MOORE, soprano
BRIAN CARTER, baritone
JASON MCKINNEY, bass-baritone
NATHAN SOUTHWICK, violin
KARL RONNEVIK, cello
JONATHAN POQUETTE, conductor
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music for falling and flying was recorded at Ovation Sound LLC in Winston-Salem, North Carolina March 8-10, 2024. It was produced by Justin Waller, with engineering, editing and mixing done by Bill Stevens (Ovation Sound LLC) and mastering done by Dave McNair.
Album Design/Artwork by Natalie Lodato.
All stories copyright 2011-2020 Ben Loory, used with permission of the author.
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