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American opera singer
- bass-baritone
- United States of America
- opera singer
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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2017-02-20 03:55:43
[…] Cooke has been working on this compilation since 1976, the year this author met him at a concert of some of this choral music held at the Massachusetts Historical Society. The music so charmed me that I signed up Cooke’s group on the spot, to provide a concert for Trinity Church during our nation’s Bicentennial celebration. (I also curated an exhibition, “Trinity Never Closed its Doors,” and our Honorary Chair was the late Walter Muir Whitehill, at the time Director of the Boston Athenæum.) American Harmony will contain more than 176 psalm and hymn tunes, anthems, carols, elegies, patriotic songs, printed in shape notes, with sometimes as many as eight verses under-laid, and 100 illustrations. Cooke also plans to include a CD with 35 examples performed by his chorus, also called American Harmony. Enthusiasts will recognize quite a few of Cooke’s selections, supplied from the composers’ own tunebooks wherever possible, […]
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