Charles Finney

Publié en 1935 aux Etats-Unis, ce petit livre étrange a fait son chemin et dépassé le million d’exemplaires. Difficile à classer, il véhicule, à travers une histoire dont le titre nous fournit une idée, toute une mythologie fantastique et mystérieuse, qui pourrait rejoindre les fantaisies de Mark Twain dans le style sardonique de Bierce..

American composer Ross Lee Finney's Pilgrim Psalms is a collection of contemporary settings of inspirational hymns carried by the pilgrims to Plymouth in 1620. Finney considered these melodies "among America’s greatest folk heritage, influencing sacred singing through each singing." This recording features Andrew Clark leading the Harvard Glee Club, the Radcliffe Choral Society and soloists on the Pilgrim Psalms, while the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum opens and closes the programme with two companion pieces by Finney.

Abalone, Arizona, is a sleepy southwestern town whose chief concerns are boredom and surviving the Great Depression—that is, until the circus of Dr. Lao arrives and immensely and irrevocably changes the lives of everyone drawn to its tents.