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Irving Fine
Irving Fine's music, wrote Aaron Copland, "wins us over through its keenly conceived sonorities and its fully realized expressive content"; Copland also singled out its "elegance, style, finish and a convincing continuity", its overarching lyricism summed up in Virgil Thomson's description of its "unusual melodic grace". Irving Fine was born in Boston, Mass., on 3 December 1914 and first studied piano; he was an admired pianist throughout his career, and was particularly esteemed by colleagues for his sight-reading ability. Fine went to Harvard University, attending the composition and theory classes of Edward Burlingame Hill and Walter Piston; he received his BA in 1937 and his MA a year later; at Harvard he also studied choral conducting with Archibald T. Davidson and, at Tanglewood, orchestral conducting with Serge Koussevitzy. In 1938-39 he attended Nadia Boulanger's composition classes at Fontainebleau, outside Paris, and at Radcliffe College, Cambridge (Mass.). |
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Irving Fine : Three Choral Settings from Alice in Wonderland This popular and playful first selection from Three Choral Settings from Alice in Wonderland is now back in print! With piano. Recorded by Gregg Smith Singers with Raymond Beegle, piano - Courtesy Composers Recordings, Inc. This lively selection from Fine's classic Alice in Wonderland is full of dancing rhythms and spirited energy. Available for SATB, SSA and TTBB. Performance Time: Approx. 2:15. Recorded by Gregg Smith Singers with Raymond Beegle, piano. Courtesy of Composers Recordings, Inc. This lively selection from Fine's classic Alice in Wonderland is full of dancing rhythms and spirited energy. Available for SATB, SSA and TTBB. Performance Time: Approx. 2:15. Recorded by Gregg Smith Singers with Raymond Beegle, piano. Courtesy of Composers Recordings, Inc. Songlist: Lobster Quadrille, Father William, Lullaby of the Duchess 
Irving Fine : McCord's Menagerie Subtitled "Four Vivariations", Irving Fine's McCord's Menagerie, are settings of humorous poems by David McCord. With the bumbling "loo's" accompanying the tenor melody, Fine's setting of Vultur Gryphus implies a harmless creature. Instead of the movie western's ominous bird associated with death, Fine's animal seems too lazy and stupid to get his own food! Jerboa, classified as the genus jaculus jaculus, is as active and scary in Fine's world as Vultur Gryphus is laid back and friendly. Fine agrees with those to whom a darting (the translation of the Latin jaculus) small rodent is sinister and creepy, attributes he conveys through abrupt entrances and minor tonality. In Mole McCord compares the over-soul of man, a Unitarian concept put forth by Ralph Waldo Emerson, with the limited capacities of the mole. In Clam, Fine and McCord give in to their silliest selves. McCord observes how man the diner and clam the dinner (in chowder no less) both evolved from the same ancestor; man is saved from the clam's fate, according to McCord, by his own initiative and work ethic. Fine has a lot of fun with the sounds suggesting insouciance, which explains why the clam never got ahead! Lots of fun here. Songlist: Jerboa, Vultur Gryphus, Clam, Mole |
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Also available in other voicings: SSAA (48003286) - TTBB (48003502) - Unison (48004374)
In Clam, Fine and McCord give in to their silliest selves. McCord observes how man the diner and clam the dinner (in chowder no less) both evolved from the same ancestor; man is saved from the clam's fate, according to McCord, by his own initiative and work ethic. Fine has a lot of fun with the sounds suggesting insouciance, which explains why the clam never got ahead!
Now back in print! This lively selection from Fine's classic Alice in Wonderland is full of dancing rhythms and spirited energy. Available for SATB, SSA and TTBB. Performance Time: Approx. 2:15. Recorded by Gregg Smith Singers with Raymond Beegle, piano. Courtesy of Composers Recordings, Inc.
This extremely fun piece features Tenor and Soprano Solos.
Composer: Aaron Copland
Fine agrees with those to whom a darting (the translation of the Latin jaculus) small rodent is sinister and creepy, attributes he conveys through abrupt entrances and minor tonality.
This popular and playful first selection from Three Choral Settings from Alice in Wonderland is now back in print! With piano. Recorded by Gregg Smith Singers with Raymond Beegle, piano - Courtesy Composers Recordings, Inc.
Now back in print! Alice's frightful encounter with the Duchess and her violently ironic lullabye makes for a memorable singing experience.
In Mole McCord compares the over-soul of man, a Unitarian concept put forth by Ralph Waldo Emerson, with the limited capacities of the mole.
Fine's setting of Vultur Gryphus implies a harmless creature. Instead of the movie western's ominous bird associated with death, Fine's animal seems too lazy and stupid to get his own food! Jerboa, classified as the genus jaculus jaculus, is as active and scary in Fine's world as Vultur Gryphus is laid back and friendly.
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