Liner Notes
Cat. No. NWCR630
Release Date: 1992-01-01
Gregg Smith Singers; Gregg Smith, conductor; Raymond Beegle, piano; Ida Kavafian, violin; Vivian Fine, piano; Eunice Alberts, mezzo-soprano; Irving Fine, piano
Irving Fine, born in Boston in 1914 and educated in the public schools of Boston and Winthrop (MA), lived virtually his entire life close to the city of his birth. After receiving his B.A. and M.A. degrees from Harvard University, he undertook further studies in composition with Nadia Boulanger in Cambridge (MA) and France, and in orchestral conducting with Serge Koussevitzky at Tanglewood, from 1939 to 1950. Fine taught in the Harvard Music Department and conducted the Harvard Glee Club. He also served on the Tanglewood composition faculty for nine summers between 1946 and 1957. In the fall of 1950, Fine joined the faculty of Brandeis University as the first Walter W. Naumburg Professor of Music and chairman of the School of Creative Arts, positions he held until his untimely death in 1962 at the age of forty-seven.
Praised as a “musical aristocrat...whose work was distinguished by sensitivity, exquisite taste and ripeness of execution,” Fine has written music, as described by his friend and colleague, Aaron Copland that “wins us over through its keenly conceived sonorities and its fully realized expressive content.” Although Fine spent his life in a university setting, his works are “without the slightest taint of academicism” and, to quote Copland, full of “elegance, style, a finish and a convincing continuity.”
This title, originally issued on the CRI label, is now available as a burn-on-demand CD (CD-R) or download in MP3/320, FLAC or WAV formats. CD-Rs come in a protective sleeve; no print booklet or jewel case included. Liner notes are accessible via the link above.
Irving Fine, born in Boston in 1914 and educated in the public schools of Boston and Winthrop (MA), lived virtually his entire life close to the city of his birth. After receiving his B.A. and M.A. degrees from Harvard University, he undertook further studies in composition with Nadia Boulanger in Cambridge (MA) and France, and in orchestral conducting with Serge Koussevitzky at Tanglewood, from 1939 to 1950. Fine taught in the Harvard Music Department and conducted the Harvard Glee Club. He also served on the Tanglewood composition faculty for nine summers between 1946 and 1957. In the fall of 1950, Fine joined the faculty of Brandeis University as the first Walter W. Naumburg Professor of Music and chairman of the School of Creative Arts, positions he held until his untimely death in 1962 at the age of forty-seven.
Praised as a “musical aristocrat...whose work was distinguished by sensitivity, exquisite taste and ripeness of execution,” Fine has written music, as described by his friend and colleague, Aaron Copland that “wins us over through its keenly conceived sonorities and its fully realized expressive content.” Although Fine spent his life in a university setting, his works are “without the slightest taint of academicism” and, to quote Copland, full of “elegance, style, a finish and a convincing continuity.”
This title, originally issued on the CRI label, is now available as a burn-on-demand CD (CD-R) or download in MP3/320, FLAC or WAV formats. CD-Rs come in a protective sleeve; no print booklet or jewel case included. Liner notes are accessible via the link above.
Irving Fine: Chamber and Vocal Works
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A *.pdf of the notes may be accessed here free of charge.
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Hour-Glass: I. O know to end as to begin
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Hour-Glass: II. Have you seen the white lily grow
Irving Fine
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Hour-Glass: III. O do not wanton with those eyes
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Hour-Glass: IV. Against jealousy
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Hour-Glass: V. Lament
Irving Fine
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Hour-Glass: VI. The Hour-Glass
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Three Choruses from Alice in Wonderland (first series): I. The Lobster Quadrille
Irving Fine
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Three Choruses from Alice in Wonderland (first series): II. Lullaby of The Duchess
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Three Choruses from Alice in Wonderland (first series): III. Father William
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Three Choruses from Alice in Wonderland (second series): I. The Knave's Letter
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Three Choruses from Alice in Wonderland (second series): II. The White Knight's Song
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Three Choruses from Alice in Wonderland (second series): III. Beautiful Soup
Irving Fine
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McCord's Menagerie: I. Vultur Gryphus
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McCord's Menagerie: II. Jerboa
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McCord's Menagerie: III. Mole
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McCord's Menagerie: IV. Clam
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Sonata for Violin and Piano: I. Moderato; Allegro moderato, giusto
Irving Fine
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Sonata for Violin and Piano: II. Lento con moto
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Sonata for Violin and Piano: III. Vivo
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Mutability: I. I Have Heard The Hoof Beats of Happiness
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Mutability: II. My Father
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Mutability: III. The Weed
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Mutability: IV. Peregrine
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Mutability: V. Jubilation
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Mutability: VI. Now God Be Thanked for Mutability
Irving Fine
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