The CD shares beautiful verses from Contemplations by Anne Dudley Bradstreet, America’s first published poet, set to music by David Bennett Thomas. Listeners will hear an homage to the Haverhill shoe industry in Queen Slipper Serenade by David McMullin and can imagine spending June on the Merrimack through the vision of newspaper editor and abolitionist John Greenleaf Whittier, set to music by C
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2:21
Contemplations: Five Songs on Anne Bradstreet for Soprano, Flute, Cello, and Piano: I. I Wist Not What to Wish (Verse 2) (clip)
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2:21
Contemplations: Five Songs on Anne Bradstreet for Soprano, Flute, Cello, and Piano: II. I Heard the Merry Grasshopper Then Sing (Verse 9) (clip)
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1:21
Contemplations: Five Songs on Anne Bradstreet for Soprano, Flute, Cello, and Piano: III. Under the Cooling Shadow of the Stately Elm (Verse 21) (clip)
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3:31
Contemplations: Five Songs on Anne Bradstreet for Soprano, Flute, Cello, and Piano: IV. Sometimes in Eden Fair He Seems to Be (Verse 11) (clip)
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2:57
Contemplations: Five Songs on Anne Bradstreet for Soprano, Flute, Cello, and Piano: V. O Merry Bird, Said I, That Fears No Snares (Verses 27-28) (clip)
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3:21
Queen Slipper Serenade for Flute, French Horn, Cello and Piano (clip)
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7:31
June on the Merrimack for Tenor, Flute, Cello and Piano (clip)
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8
5:26
Whittier Sketches for Flute and Cello: I. Boyhood Idyll (1807-1822) (clip)
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5:50
Whittier Sketches for Flute and Cello: II. Discovery (1822-1830) (clip)
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4:48
Whittier Sketches for Flute and Cello: III. Editor and Abolitionist (1830-1857) (clip)
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6:17
Whittier Sketches for Flute and Cello: IV. Amesbury, Late Poetry (1857-1892) (clip)
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20:34
A Diary: Growing up in North Andover, 1874 -1892 by Horace N. Stevens for Flute, Violin, Cello, Piano, Percussion and Male Narrator (clip)
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