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Hanson: Merry Mount Suite; Bold Island Suite; Symphony No. 2 "Romantic.".(Sound Recording Review)
Hanson: Merry Mount Suite; Bold Island Suite; Symphony No. 2 "Romantic." Erich Kunzel, Cincinnati Pops Orchestra. Telarc CD-80649.
The Merry Mount Suite, taken from Howard Hanson's 1933 opera, is anything but merry. The drama depicts some rather brutal encounters between early New England Puritans and newly arrived Cavaliers, the core of the conflict centering on the preacher's illicit lust for a woman. If it sounds a little like Nathaniel Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter, you'd be right. Hawthorne wrote the original short story, "The Maypole of Merry Mount." The tale is filled with names like Wrestling Bradford, Marigold Sandys, and Sir Gower Lackland, which in itself makes it hard to take seriously. Anyway, the suite is much less dour than the opera, its four movements concentrating on the lighter, more ardent aspects of the story.
The Bold Island Suite from 1961 gets its world premiere recording here; it's a series of three tone pictures portraying birds, the seascape, and nature on Bold Island, just off the Maine coast. The concluding composition, the Second Symphony, may be familiar to some listeners as background music in the movie Alien, ...
- The Joseph M. Schwartz Memorial Essay, 2005: dancing around the Maypole,...
- Magazine article from: Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature Griffin, Edward M. March 22, 2005 700+ words
...historians, dramatists, and composers--Merry Mount has meant more than just a bump in the...Thomas Morton's tiny plantation, Merry Mount, are Peter Ackroyd, Stephen Vincent...American historiography, however, Merry Mount should have quietly nestled into obscurity...
- LAVISH `MERRY MOUNT' PRODUCTION FILLS GAP IN SYMPHONY'S...
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) Campbell, R.M. October 28, 1996 700+ words
...Hanson's rarely performed opera ``Merry Mount.'' Even those well-versed in opera do not know ``Merry Mount,'' which was given its stage premiere...40 years. ``I don't know why `Merry Mount' has not been performed more often...
- "May-Pole of Merry Mount": Hawthorne's "L'Allegro" and "Il Penseroso."
- Magazine article from: Studies in Short Fiction Joplin, David D. March 22, 1993 700+ words
In his 1991 essay "New Roots for |Merry Mount': Barking Up the Wrong Tree," John...Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The May-Pole of Merry Mount." Birk discounts Sheldon W. Liebman...served as Milton's chief influence on "Merry Mount," stating that "the greater bulk...
- AGE, DISUSE HAVEN'T TARNISHED THE BEAUTY OF `MERRY...
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) Campbell, R.M. October 30, 1996 700+ words
...Howard Hanson's 63-year-old ``Merry Mount'' is whether a retrograde, unapologetically...so stylistically out of fashion. ``Merry Mount'' could not be more American. Its...the music holds their interest. ``Merry Mount'' is timely for two reasons. First...
- Merry Old England and Hawthorne's "The May-Pole of Merry Mount".
- Magazine article from: Nathaniel Hawthorne Review Heath, William March 22, 2007 700+ words
"The May-Pole of Merry Mount" is at once a meditation on the...mention at all of the founder of Merry Mount? He certainly knew that it was...account. Orians concludes that "The Merry-Mount of the tale is not the Merry-Mount...
- Merry Mount
- Reference information from: The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature James D. Hart January 1, 1986 700+ words
Merry Mount, settlement at Mount Wollaston (now Quincy), Mass., founded in 1625 by Captain Wollaston and...Motley's romance Merrymount (1849) and the operatic version by Howard Hanson and R. L. Stokes, Merry Mount (1934).
- The maypole of Merry Mount, 1625.
- Picture from: NYPL Digital Gallery unknown January 1, 1934 700+ words
- Hanson, Howard (Harold)
- Reference information from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music MICHAEL KENNEDY and JOYCE BOURNE January 1, 1996 700+ words
...technical devices. His opera Merry Mount was cond. by Serafin...Forest Play (1919); Merry Mount (1933); Nymph and...pf. obbl. (1926); Merry Mount Suite (1937); pf...Seascape II (1966); Bold Island Suite (1961); Dies...
Source: HighBeam Research, Hanson: Merry Mount Suite; Bold Island Suite; Symphony No. 2...