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© 2021 Moravian Music Foundation

Barbara Lister-Sink, piano

Warwick Lister, violin

Uniquely evocative, impressionistic, and enjoyable American music!

Charles Vardell (1893-1962) was a nationally celebrated composer, an accomplished organist, a beloved teacher, an able and respected administrator, and an arts visionary.

Dean of the School of Music, Salem College (Winston-Salem, NC, USA) from 1928 to 1951.

Dean of the School of Music, Flora MacDonald College (Laurinburg, NC, USA) as it became St. Andrew’s College.  1952 – 1962

THE MUSIC

From a Mountain Walk, six sketches for piano

The Cherry Grove Suite

Nocturne for piano

Sonata for Violin and Piano in A Major

Recorded in Shirley Recital Hall, Salem College

Some recordings were completed in 2019, others, during the pandemic in 2020, as witnessed by these photos, with the producer connected remotely.

by Lisetta and Amelia Van Vleck, Carl Van Vleck & Francis F. Hagen

Issued by New World Records, this is a two-CD set, (Disc 1 has 15 tracks, Disc 2 has 16) with a variety of vocal and piano music by Salem, NC composers. It will transport you to another time, as though you’re listening to an evening recital in the parlor of your friend’s home.

CD #1

Irma Waltz (piano)
A Loving Home’s a Happy Home (quartet)
Nettie Galop (piano)
Hannah Polka (piano)
Our Words of Love (soprano solo)
Mollie March (piano)
Salem Band Waltz (piano)
Alma Mater (quartet)
The Hope, the Star, the Voice (tenor solo)
The Unknown Soldier Boy (soprano/alto duet)
My Dear One’s Waltz (piano)
The Grave of My Wife (bass solo)
River Waltz (piano)
Annie Schottisch (piano)
Waltz (piano)

CD #2

Mowing the Harvest Hay (quartet)
Centennial March (piano)
The Sky Lark (soprano solo)
Annie March (piano)
Carolina March (piano)
Come Hunters Young and Old (soprano solo)/alto
Her Last Words at Parting (tenor solo)
The Rainy Day (bass solo)
L’Amitie Waltz (piano)
Lullaby (alto solo)
The Watch-Tower Light (soprano solo)
Laura Polka (piano)
Col. Belo’s March (piano)
Early Friends (soprano solo)
Parthenia (piano)
A Friend in Need, Is a Friend Indeed (quartet)

The 288-page paperback is a revised edition of a book originally published in 1963. The first section discusses Moravian musical traditions during the eighteenth and the first half of the nineteenth centuries. The second part traces the band’s Confederate service for a little more than three years, including their participation in the Battles of New Bern, Malvern Hill, and Gettysburg.

Profusely illustrated with pictures of Salem, band members, instruments, sheet music, and maps, this new title also contains twenty-seven sketches of camp life, not previously published. The sketches were drawn by Alexander C. Meinung, a member of the Twenty-sixth Regimental Band, and record various field scenes during the band’s military service.

The striking cover of the book features a photograph of the eight original band members taken in Salem on their first furlough during July and August 1862.

The 288-page paperback is a revised edition of a book originally published in 1963. Illustrated, indexed, 288 pages, softcover. Published by the Historical Publications Section of the Office of Archives and History, North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources.

Psalm of Joy
Music of the first Independence Day celebration in the nation.
Held in Salem, NC, July 4, 1783.
Planned/organized by Joh. F. Peter

Malcolm Johns, conductor
David Ford, bass
Jean Hertzberg, soprano
Mary Arnold, soprano
Peabody College Madrigalians
members of the Nashville Sym Orchestra

Please note that this item is only available in cassette tape format.

a Moravian Music Foundation production

Among the rarities in the Moravian Music Foundation’s collections are the only known complete sets of band books from a confederate band in the American Civil War. These were brought to Salem (now Winston-Salem, North Carolina) because the 26th North Carolina Regimental Band C.S.A. was comprised wholly of Moravian musicians from Salem. This recording, based upon new scholarly editions of the works, reveals new insights into the rich musical heritage of the South, and indeed of the whole nation, in the second half of the 19th century.

This first volume of Civil War-era music was performed by the American Brass Quintet Brass Band, formed in 1980 by the members of the American Brass Quintet to perform and record America’s 19th-century brass band music on period instruments. Recorded in 2002.

Listen to Dead March

Listen to Cheer Boys Cheer! Band Call

Track List:

1. Dixie/Bonnie Blue Flag
2. Southern Victorial March
3. Here’s Your Mule
4. Canary Bird Waltz
5. Slow March from “Belisario”
6. Trovatore Quickstep
7. Rock Me to Sleep, Mother
8. 26th Regiment Quickstep
9. Bettraite Polka
10. Serenade (Schubert)
11. Melange Waltz
12. Col. Vance’s March
13. Dead March
14. India Rubber Overcoat/Old Slave/Long, Long Ago
15. Maryland! My Maryland!/Old North State
16. Col. Hoke’s March
17. Sleepers Wake
18. Covenant
19. Die Ehre Gottes
20. Rifle Regiment Quickstep
21. Waltz
22. Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming/Annie of the Vale
23. Lorena/Bright Smiles

Among the rarities in the Moravian Music Foundation’s collections are the only known complete sets of band books from a confederate band in the American Civil War. These were brought to Salem (now Winston-Salem, North Carolina) because the 26th North Carolina Regimental Band C.S.A. was comprised wholly of Moravian musicians from Salem. This recording, based upon new scholarly editions of the works, reveals new insights into the rich musical heritage of the South, and indeed of the whole nation, in the second half of the 19th century.

This second volume of Civil War-era music was performed by the American Brass Quintet Brass Band, formed in 1980 by the members of the American Brass Quintet to perform and record America’s 19th-century brass band music on period instruments. Recorded November 1-4, 2005, at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City.

Listen to Cheer Boys Cheer! Band Call

Listen to a brass ballad from the Opera ZAMPA

Tracks:

1. Band Call – Cheer, Boys, Cheer
2. Grand Confederate Quickstep
3. Double Quickstep
4. Serenade Waltz
5. Irish Emigrant’s Lament
6. Parting
7. 21st Regiment Quickstep
8. Chorale: Nun danket alle Gott
9. Easter Gallop
10. Screech Owl Gallop
11. Capt. Jones’s Waltz
12. Ever of Thee
13. The Mocking Bird Quickstep
14. Chorale: O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden
15. Dead March
16. Dearest, I Think of Thee
17. Scotch Medley
18. Capt. Horton’s Waltz
19. Lula is gone
20. Balade aus der Oper Zampa
21. Cast That Shadow From Thy Brow/Ella Leane
22. Chorale: Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr
23. Brightest Eyes
24. Carolina March