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Carol Kimball

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Carol Kimball

Carol Kimball, Emerita Professor of Voice and Barrick Distinguished Scholar at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, earned a reputation as an expressive and versatile performer in opera, musical theater, and on the concert stage. As a recitalist, her imaginative programming and the unusual scope of her repertoire garnered critical praise. She became a specialist in French repertoire having studied and coached with Pierre Bernac, Gerard Souzay, Martial Singher, Thomas Grubb, and Dalton Baldwin. Her recording of French melodie with pianist Thomas Grubb by can be found in many college and university libraries (Orion Records).

Ms. Kimball is the author of several notable publications including Song: A Guide to Art Song Style and Literature, a widely used text and reference that has become the principal one-volume American source. She has co-authored Interpreting the Songs of Jacques Leguerney and edited The French Anthology; Women Composers: A Heritage of Song; and Art Song in English: 50 Songs by 21 American and British Composers (Hal Leonard Corporation). Publications also include the Singer's Edition opera anthologies and many articles, CD liner notes, and reviews in The Opera Quarterly and the Journal of Singing. She has served as editor for The Opera Journal (National Opera Association) and editor pro-tem for the Journal of Singing. She currently writes The Song File, a regular column in the Journal of Singing.

Ms. Kimball has received many awards for her accomplishments including the Nevada Governor's Arts Award for Excellence in the Arts, the Nevada Board of Regents' Creative Excellence Award for the Nevada System of Higher Education and the University of Nevada-Las Vegas Alumni Association's Outstanding Faculty Award. Her advocacy for classical song was recognized with an appointment to the Board of Advisors of The Lotte Lehmann Foundation.

Although retired from full-time teaching, she maintains an active schedule as a clinician, lecturer, and adjudicator, and was featured at the 2010 national conference of the National Association of Teachers of Singing in Salt Lake City.

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Carol Kimball (editor) : Women Composers - A Heritage of Song

Review: With 45 songs by 22 composers, this is the most comprehensive single volume of art songs composed by women ever published. It includes biographical information about the composers and historical information about each song, with songs in English, French, German and Italian.

Chapters: Auf dem Land und in der Stadt (A. Amalia), year's at the spring, The from THREE BROWNING SONGS (A. Beach), Ah, Love but a day! from THREE BROWNING SONGS (A. Beach), I send my heart up to thee! from THREE BROWNING SONGS (A. Beach), Reflets (L. Boulanger), Le Couteau (N. Boulanger), Per le più vaga e bella (Aria of the Shepherd) (F. Caccini), ...crin (C. Chaminade), Mignonne (C. Chaminade), Mots d'amour (C. Chaminade), Povero cor tu palpiti (I. Colbran), La speranza al cor mi dice (I. Colbran), Frühling (F. Mendelssohn Hensel), Morgenständchen (F. Mendelssohn Hensel), Nachtwanderer (F. Mendelssohn Hensel), Suleika (F. Mendelssohn Hensel), Warum sind denn du Rosen so blaß (F. Mendelssohn Hensel), À Trianon (A. Holmès), Velvet Shoes (M. Howe), Den Abschied schnell genommen (J. Lang), Ob ich manchmal Dein gedenke (J. Lang), There are fairies at the bottom of our garden (L. Lehmann), Bei du ist es traut (A. Mahler), Ich wandle unter Blumen (A. Mahler), Laue Sommernacht (A. Mahler), Die stille Stadt (A. Mahler), Les Brigands (M. Malibran), La Voix qui dit: Je t'aime (M. Malibran), Colombine (Poldowski), L'heure exquise (Poldowski), Se non piange un infelice (L. Reichardt), Unruhiger Schlaf (L. Reichardt), An den Abendstern (C. Schröter), Er ist gekommen in Sturm und Regen (C. Schumann), Ihr Bildnis (C. Schumann), Liebst du um Schönheit (C. Schumann), Lorelei (C. Schumann), Mein Stern (C. Schumann), Spesso per entro al petto (B. Strozzi), Die Beschwörung (P. Viardot), Les Filles de Cadix (P. Viardot), Fleur desséchée (P. Viardot), La Belle au Bois dormant (J. Vieu), Aus Faust (B. von Arnim), Ein Stern der Lieb' am Himmelslauf (B. von Arnim)

Carol Kimball (editor) : Women Composers - A Heritage of Song

Carol Kimball : Song - A Guide to Art Song Style and Literature

Review: Carol Kimball's comprehensive survey of art song literature has been the principal one-volume American source on the topic. Now back in print after an absence of several years, this newly revised edition includes biographies and discussions of the work of 150 composers of various nationalities, as well as articles on styles of various schools of composition.

Chapters: Acknowledgements, Preface, What is Style?, Components of Style, Melody, Harmony, Rhythm, Accompaniment, Poets - Texts, Secondary Factors of Style, Components of Style Overlap, Developing Style Sheets, Creating Style Sheets for Single Songs, Creating Style Sheets for Individual Composers, Style Sheet Examples for Selected Composers, Literature