Title: But Who Shall Return Us Our Children Artist: Muehleisen / Choral Arts Northwest / Williams Label: Gothic Records Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 000334932022 Genre: Classical Release Date: 2019-04-05 Number of Discs: 2 Additional Details: 2 PACK
In this new major work John Muchleisen explores the costs of war from the point of view of the families left behind- specifically the loss of Rudyard and Carrie Kipling's son John during World War I. Robert Bode directs Choral Arts Northwest in a live performance of this moving new work. John Muchleisen's compositions have been performed throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. More than 40 of his works have been recorded commercially. Awards include third place in the 2013 American Prize in Professional Choral Composition and the 2014 Dale Warland Singers Comission Award co-sponsored by Chorus America and the American Composers Forum. Choral Arts Northwest, under the direction of Dr. Robert Bode, has won the Margaret Hillis Award for Choral Excellence and the American Prize for choral performance. The group has also been awarded coveted performing opportunities at the ACDA National and Regional Conferences, and the Chorus America National Conference.
Tracks: 1.1 But Who Shall Return Us Our Children? A Kipling Passion~Prelude: P.1 Bugle Calls: Reveille 1.2 But Who Shall Return Us Our Children? A Kipling Passion~Prelude: P.2 Hymn #1: Recessional 1.3 But Who Shall Return Us Our Children? A Kipling Passion~Part One - Family Portrait: 1.1 Recitative: John's Birth 1.4 But Who Shall Return Us Our Children? A Kipling Passion~Part One - Family Portrait: 1.2 Duet: Lullaby for John 1.5 But Who Shall Return Us Our Children? A Kipling Passion~Part One - Family Portrait: 1.3 Recitative: John's Destiny - My attention is at present taken up... 1.6 But Who Shall Return Us Our Children? A Kipling Passion~Part One - Family Portrait: 1.4 Duet: John Grows Up 1.7 But Who Shall Return Us Our Children? A Kipling Passion~Part One - Family Portrait: 1.5 Aria: If - 1.8 But Who Shall Return Us Our Children? A Kipling Passion~Part Two - The Gathering Storm: 2.1 Recitative: August 4, 1914 1.9 But Who Shall Return Us Our Children? A Kipling Passion~Part Two - The Gathering Storm: 2.2 Scena: At a recruiting rally - For All We Have and Are - 1914 1.10 But Who Shall Return Us Our Children? A Kipling Passion~Part Two - The Gathering Storm: 2.3 Recitative: John's Commission 1.11 But Who Shall Return Us Our Children? A Kipling Passion~Part Two - The Gathering Storm: 2.4 Recitative: ...there is nothing else to do. 1.12 But Who Shall Return Us Our Children? A Kipling Passion~Part Two - The Gathering Storm: 2.5 Lament #1: The young men of the world... 1.13 But Who Shall Return Us Our Children? A Kipling Passion~Part Two - The Gathering Storm: 2.6 Aria (Chaconne) + Recitative: Carrie's Farewell - Son 1.14 But Who Shall Return Us Our Children? A Kipling Passion~Part Two - The Gathering Storm: 2.7 March #1: The Call 1.15 But Who Shall Return Us Our Children? A Kipling Passion~Part Three - The Battle of Loos: 3.1 Aria with Chorus: John Kipling's Final Letter: Just a hurried line... 1.16 But Who Shall Return Us Our Children? A Kipling Passion~Part Three - The Battle of Loos: 3.2 Soldiers' Song #1: Bombed Last Night 1.17 But Who Shall Return Us Our Children? A Kipling Passion~Part Three - The Battle of Loos: 3.3 Aria with Chorus: Secret Music 1.18 But Who Shall Return Us Our Children? A Kipling Passion~Part Three - The Battle of Loos: 3.4 Soldiers' Song #2: Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty 1.19 But Who Shall Return Us Our Children? A Kipling Passion~Part Three - The Battle of Loos: 3.5 Soldiers' Song #3: Just Before the Battle, Mother 1.20 But Who Shall Return Us Our Children? A Kipling Passion~Part Three - The Battle of Loos: 3.6 Chorale #1: Soldier's Dream - I dreamed kind Jesus fouled the big gun gears...I dreamed kind Jesus fouled the big gun gears... 1.21 But Who Shall Return Us Our Children? A Kipling Passion~Part Three - The Battle of Loos: 3.7 Scena for Chorus + Tenor: The Attack (Over the Top) 1.22 But Who Shall Return Us Our Children? A Kipling Passion~Part Three - The Battle of Loos: 3.8 John's Death 1.23 But Who Shall Return Us Our Children? A Kipling Passion~Part Three - The Battle of Loos: 3.9 Chorale #2: The dead men lay on the shell-scarred plain... 1.24 But Who Shall Return Us Our Children? A Kipling Passion~Part Three - The Battle of Loos: 3.10 Interlude: I knew a simple soldier boy... 1.25 But Who Shall Return Us Our Children? A Kipling Passion~Part Three - The Battle of Loos: 3.11 Soldiers' Song #4: The Old Barbed Wire 1.26 But Who Shall Return Us Our Children? A Kipling Passion~Part Three - The Battle of Loos: 3.12 Chorus with Recitative - They shall not return to us... 1.27 But Who Shall Return Us Our Children? A Kipling Passion~Part Three - The Battle of Loos: 3.13 Choral Recitative: The Telegram 1.28 But Who Shall Return Us Our Children? A Kipling Passion~Part Three - The Battle of Loos: 3.14 Reprise: For All We Have and Are 2.1 But Who Shall Return Us Our Children? A Kipling Passion~Part Four - Lost ; Found: 4.1 The Search for John Begins (1915) 2.2 But Who Shall Return Us Our Children? A Kipling Passion~Part Four - Lost ; Found: 4.2 Carol and Recitative: A Nativity - Is it well with the child? 2.3 But Who Shall Return Us Our Children? A Kipling Passion~Part Four - Lost ; Found: 4.3 The Search for John Continues (1916) 2.4 But Who Shall Return Us Our Children? A Kipling Passion~Part Four - Lost ; Found: 4.4 Chorale #3: Advent, 1916 - I dreamt last night Christ came to earth again... 2.5 But Who Shall Return Us Our Children? A Kipling Passion~Part Four - Lost ; Found: 4.5 Recitative with Chorus: The Search for John Concludes (1917) 2.6 But Who Shall Return Us Our Children? A Kipling Passion~Part Four - Lost ; Found: 4.6 Soliloquy: The Question 2.7 But Who Shall Return Us Our Children? A Kipling Passion~Part Four - Lost ; Found: 4.7 Duet: Perhaps 2.8 But Who Shall Return Us Our Children? A Kipling Passion~Part Five - Armistice ; Aftermath: 5.1 Recitative with Chorus: The Armistice (November 11, 1918) 2.9 But Who Shall Return Us Our Children? A Kipling Passion~Part Five - Armistice ; Aftermath: 5.2 March #2: Return of the Irish Guards 2.10 But Who Shall Return Us Our Children? A Kipling Passion~Part Five - Armistice ; Aftermath: 5.3 Hymn #2: Survivors 2.11 But Who Shall Return Us Our Children? A Kipling Passion~Part Five - Armistice ; Aftermath: 5.4 Lament #2: The Children 2.12 But Who Shall Return Us Our Children? A Kipling Passion~Part Five - Armistice ; Aftermath: 5.5 Interlude: Statistics 2.13 But Who Shall Return Us Our Children? A Kipling Passion~Part Five - Armistice ; Aftermath: 5.6 Waltz: Does It Matter? 2.14 But Who Shall Return Us Our Children? A Kipling Passion~Part Five - Armistice ; Aftermath: 5.7 Recitative: John Officially Declared Dead (June 10, 1919) 2.15 But Who Shall Return Us Our Children? A Kipling Passion~Part Six - Reconciliation ; Remembrance: 6.1 Lament #3: All that they had they gave... 2.16 But Who Shall Return Us Our Children? A Kipling Passion~Part Six - Reconciliation ; Remembrance: 6.2 Recitative: I have lost what I treasured most... 2.17 But Who Shall Return Us Our Children? A Kipling Passion~Part Six - Reconciliation ; Remembrance: 6.3 Chorale #4: On Another's Sorrow (Can I see another's woe?) 2.18 But Who Shall Return Us Our Children? A Kipling Passion~Part Six - Reconciliation ; Remembrance: 6.4 Scena: The Cenotaph (November 11, 1919) 2.19 But Who Shall Return Us Our Children? A Kipling Passion~Part Six - Reconciliation ; Remembrance: 6.5 Aria: Epitaph - Remember me... 2.20 But Who Shall Return Us Our Children? A Kipling Passion~Part Six - Reconciliation ; Remembrance: 6.6 Closing Chorus: I am the grass... 2.21 But Who Shall Return Us Our Children? A Kipling Passion~Part Six - Reconciliation ; Remembrance: 6.7 Remembrance Tapestry: We will remember them
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