Description
A Loving Home’s A Happy Home: 19th-Century Moravian Parlor Music
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)
