Various Artists - This Is Your Year / VariousDubbed "The First Lady of Children's Music," Ella Jenkins has released over thirty albums on Smithsonian Folkways since her first recording, Call and Response: Rhythmic Group Singing, in 1957. Written for the International Year of the Child in 1979 and performed on the tiktiri (a double clarinet from India), this four track long instrumental recording is an album of playful tunes.

drawing listeners inward with a newfound focus on personal lyrics

The ten-minute Cantate de Méphisto sets a text by Paul Valéry: according to the composer

without ostentation-new departures

Many of these cover songs had no writing credits or conflicting authorship

these recordings capture a master at the peak of his career

musings on her own mortality

Anna Gmeyner's play "Automat" dates from 1932 and was inspired by the technological innovations of her age as well as by the reactionary attitudes of the bourgeoisie

Since September 2014 Kacper has been studying at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel in Belgium

For this unique occasion

to whom this Vigil is dedicated

With violinist Leo Berlin and cellist Åke Olofsson he founded the Stockholm Trio (1957-1986)

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