Johan de Meij: Songs From The Catskills

Johan de Meij: Songs From The Catskills
Feroci Philharmonic Winds
Johan de Meij, Guest Conductor
Yos Vaneesorn, Concert-Master
เป็นกลุ่มเพลงพื้นบ้านจากแถบเทือกเขา Catskills ทางตอนเหนือของมลรัฐนิวยอร์ค ประเทศสหรัฐอเมริกา ที่ผู้ประพันธ์นำมาเรียบเรียงสำหรับวงเครื่องลม บทเพลงพื้นบ้านที่นำมาใช้เหล่านี้มีรากเหง้าจากทั้งอเมริกา ไอร์แลนด์ และสก๊อตแลนด์ ได้แก่ The Foggy Dew, Last Winter was a Hard One, A Poor and Foreign Stranger, The Bluestone Quarries และ The Arkansas Traveler
The Catskill Mountains is a beautifully preserved region in Upstate New York, flanked to the east by the Hudson River. From the moment my wife and I settled in 2008 in Saugerties, a quaint Hudson Valley town 100 miles north of Manhattan, I started immersing myself into the area's rich musical history. Discovering a fascinating mix of American, Irish and Scottish folk music, ultimately, it was not easy to choose from such abundance. I ended up using the following six songs:
The Foggy Dew - is of Irish origin, but was adopted with another text into the local folk song repertoire; * Last Winter was a Hard One - tells the story of two Irish immigrant women who complain that their husbands can not find work, and that ‘Those Italians’ steal their jobs; * A Poor and Foreign Stranger - a gorgeous, heart-breaking ballad; * The Bluestone Quarries - describes the hard work in the nineteenth-century stone quarries. This song is very similar to When Johnny Comes Marching Home; * The Arkansas Traveler - made famous by folk singer Pete Seeger (If I Had a Hammer) The music makes a side trip to The Old Tobacco Box before coming to a festive conclusion.