Lukas Foss
The Prairie (LP)
LabelTurnaboutGenreContemporary Composition
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Lukas Foss's The Prairie (1944), a cantata for soloists, chorus, and orchestra setting Carl Sandburg's poem of the same name, is the work that established his early reputation as a gifted and ambitious young American composer. It won the New York Music Critics Circle Award in 1944 and was hailed as a significant contribution to the tradition of American choral music. From the vantage of Foss's later career - his turn toward improvisation, indeterminacy, and extended technique - The Prairie reads as both a starting point and a point of departure: the Americana of Copland and Harris absorbed and processed through a young composer's particular intelligence, the work of someone who would shortly move somewhere entirely different. On Turnabout.
Release notes
dark navy blue label, white and silver text
| A1 | I Was Born On The Prairie | 5:30 | |
| A2 | Dust Of Men | 5:57 | |
| A3 | They Are Mine | 6:18 | |
| A4 | When The Red And The White Men Met | 3:30 | |
| A5 | In The Dark Of A Thousand Years | 0:36 | |
| B1 | In The Dark Of A Thousand Years (Conclusion) | 5:57 | |
| B2 | Cool Prayers | 2:38 | |
| B3 | O Prairie Girl | 4:22 | |
| B4 | Songs Hidden In Eggs | 2:40 | |
| B5 | Tomorrow | 11:05 |
- Harlan Foss
- Baritone Vocals
- Long Island Symphonic Choral Association
- Choir
- Gregg Smith
- Chorus Master
- Ani Yervanian
- Mezzo-soprano Vocals
- Jeanne Distell
- Soprano Vocals
- Jerold Norman
- Tenor Vocals
- Gregg Smith Singers
- Vocals
