Love it Was Not

Jesse Winchester - Learn To Love It (1974) {Wounded Bird Records WOU 6953 rel 2006}
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© 1974, 2006 Bearsville Records / Wounded Bird Records | WOU 6953
Rock / Folk Rock / Folk / World / Country

As the title suggests, making a virtue of necessity had always been one of Jesse Winchester's goals, and by the time of the release of his third album, the American expatriate had gone ahead and assumed Canadian citizenship. This seemed to free him to comment explicitly on his antiwar exile in "Pharaoh's Army" and especially a version of the old campaign song "Tell Me Why You Like Roosevelt" updated with new lyrics: "In the year of 1967, as a somewhat younger man, the call to bloody glory came, and I would not raise my hand."

Heinrich Marschner (1795-1851) - Lieder und Balladen / Love Songs & Ballads
Steven Kimbrough, Baritone / Dalton Baldwin, Piano
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Label/Cat#: Koch-Schwann # 3-6742-2 | Country/Year: Germany 2000
Genre: Classical | Style: Romantic, Vocal, Lieder

Heinrich August Marschner was the most important composer of German opera between Weber and Wagner. To the extent that he is still remembered, it is largely for his operas Hans Heiling (1833), Der Vampyr (1828), and Der Templer und die Jüdin (1829), extremely popular in his lifetime. Marschner’s ability to depict supernatural horror by musical means is especially evident in the first two operas as well as in some of his ballads, such as "Die Monduhr". Next to his operas, Marschner's most significant musical contribution is to the Lied. The best of his works in this form are comparable with those by Carl Loewe.