Overview

PHCD187

VOCAL MUSIC of Jeffrey Kaufman –

Nexus:

Richie Havens, narrator/vocalist          Nexus

Janet Jordan, soprano                              Nexus

1. Instrumental Prologue
2. When I Was Young (recitation)
3. When I Was Young (soprano solo)
4. All Day the Streets are Crowded (recitation)
5. We Are Like Snails
6. Instrumental Interlude
7. I Cherish (soprano solo)
8. I Cherish (recitation)

Four Works for Small Chorus:

Gregg Smith, conductor                           

1. Young and Old
2. Frolic
3. Pride of Youth
4. The Reverie of Poor Susan

Emily Dickinson Four Songs of Nature

Kristen Plumley, soprano

Ron Levy, piano

Susan La Fever, French Horn

1. Nature Is What We See
2. The Wind Begun to Knead  the Grass
3. A Something in a Summers’s Day
4. Dear March – Come In

Hineni

Cantor Azi Schwartz 

This compilation contains works dating from the early 1980s  (“Nexus” when Jeffrey Kaufman was Music Director for Woodstock Festival superstar Richie Havens), to the most recent “Emily Dickinson Four Songs of Nature” 2018. His eclectic style has always been independent of any current trend. And in his vocal writing, he has always been guided and true to his sense of the underlying nature, meaning and style of the texts.