ABBY HUTCHINSON PATTON - USA
BORN 29 AUGUST
Abby Hutchinson Patton (August 29, 1829 – November 24, 1892) was an American singer and poet.
Abby Hutchinson was born in Milford, New Hampshire, on August 29, 1829. She was the fourth daughter and the sixteenth and youngest child of Jesse Hutchinson (1778–1851) and Mary Hastings Leavitt (1783–1868). In 1839 Abby Hutchinson Patton made her first appearance as a singer in her native town. On that occasion the parents and their thirteen children took part.
BORN 29 AUGUST
Abby Hutchinson Patton (August 29, 1829 – November 24, 1892) was an American singer and poet.
Abby Hutchinson was born in Milford, New Hampshire, on August 29, 1829. She was the fourth daughter and the sixteenth and youngest child of Jesse Hutchinson (1778–1851) and Mary Hastings Leavitt (1783–1868). In 1839 Abby Hutchinson Patton made her first appearance as a singer in her native town. On that occasion the parents and their thirteen children took part.
In May 1843, the Hutchinson family first visited New York City. Their simple dress and manners and the harmony of their voices took the New Yorkers by storm. The Hutchinsons, imbued with the love of liberty, soon joined heart and hand with the Abolitionists, and in their concerts sang ringing songs of freedom. This roused the ire of their pro-slavery hearers to such an extent that they would demonstrate their disapproval by yells and hisses and sometimes with threats of personal injury to the singers, but the presence of Abby held the riotous spirit in check. With her sweet voice and charming manners she would go forward and sing "The Slave's Appeal" with such effect that the mob would become peaceful.
In August 1845, Abby went with her brothers, Jesse, Judson, John and Asa, to England. They found warm friends in William Howitt and Mary Howitt, Douglas William Jerrold, Charles Dickens, and others.
After her marriage Patton sang with her brothers on special occasions. At the outbreak of the Civil War, in 1861, Patton joined with her brothers in singing the songs of freedom and patriotism.
During her travels Patton was a frequent contributor to the American newspapers. She composed music to several poems, among which the best known are "Kind Words Can Never Die" and Alfred, Lord Tennyson's "Ring Out, Wild Bells." In 1891 she published a volume entitled "A Handful of Pebbles", consisting of her poems, interspersed with paragraphs and proverbs, containing the essence of her happy philosophy.
She was interested in the education of women and was an earnest believer in women's suffrage, which movement she has aided by tongue and pen.
After her marriage Patton sang with her brothers on special occasions. At the outbreak of the Civil War, in 1861, Patton joined with her brothers in singing the songs of freedom and patriotism.
During her travels Patton was a frequent contributor to the American newspapers. She composed music to several poems, among which the best known are "Kind Words Can Never Die" and Alfred, Lord Tennyson's "Ring Out, Wild Bells." In 1891 she published a volume entitled "A Handful of Pebbles", consisting of her poems, interspersed with paragraphs and proverbs, containing the essence of her happy philosophy.
She was interested in the education of women and was an earnest believer in women's suffrage, which movement she has aided by tongue and pen.
Source: Wikipedia
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Kind words can never die by Abby Hutchinson Patton
ANDREA CLEARFIELD - USA
BORN 29 AUGUST
Andrea Clearfield (born 1960) is an American composer of contemporary classical music. Regularly commissioned and performed by ensembles in the United States and abroad, her works include music for orchestra, chorus, soloists, chamber ensembles, dance, film and multimedia collaborations.
Clearfield was born on August 29, 1960 in Philadelphia, PA. Her parents loved music and often played chamber music in the living room. Clearfield started playing piano at age 5 and later played flute and timpani in the school bands and orchestras at Cynwyd Elementary, Bala-Cynwyd Junior High and Lower Merion High School. She also played in rock, folk and world music groups. Her father is a physician and her mother a painter, and she has one brother. Clearfield took an interest to composition early on, arranging pop songs from the radio for voices, strings and percussion.
Clearfield met her first "woman composer mentor," Margaret Garwood, when she attended Muhlenberg College. Clearfield later went on to earn a M.M. in Piano from the Philadelphia College of Performing Arts (now the University of the Arts), and subsequently received a D.M.A. in Composition from Temple University, where her principal teacher was Maurice Wright. Clearfield is the founder and host, since 1986, of the Philadelphia Salon concert series, featuring contemporary, classical, jazz, world, electronic, multimedia, and spoken word arts.
Clearfield writes for opera, orchestra, chorus, chamber ensembles, dance and multimedia collaborations and has composed a number of large-scale cantatas. Her style is lyrical and rhythmically compelling, with lush harmonies and contrasting fields of texture and sound color. Her work on the Golem Psalms includes the practice of gematria which she embeds into the composition. Clearfield's piece, Unremembered Wings, is based on the poetry of Pablo Neruda.
BORN 29 AUGUST
Andrea Clearfield (born 1960) is an American composer of contemporary classical music. Regularly commissioned and performed by ensembles in the United States and abroad, her works include music for orchestra, chorus, soloists, chamber ensembles, dance, film and multimedia collaborations.
Clearfield was born on August 29, 1960 in Philadelphia, PA. Her parents loved music and often played chamber music in the living room. Clearfield started playing piano at age 5 and later played flute and timpani in the school bands and orchestras at Cynwyd Elementary, Bala-Cynwyd Junior High and Lower Merion High School. She also played in rock, folk and world music groups. Her father is a physician and her mother a painter, and she has one brother. Clearfield took an interest to composition early on, arranging pop songs from the radio for voices, strings and percussion.
Clearfield met her first "woman composer mentor," Margaret Garwood, when she attended Muhlenberg College. Clearfield later went on to earn a M.M. in Piano from the Philadelphia College of Performing Arts (now the University of the Arts), and subsequently received a D.M.A. in Composition from Temple University, where her principal teacher was Maurice Wright. Clearfield is the founder and host, since 1986, of the Philadelphia Salon concert series, featuring contemporary, classical, jazz, world, electronic, multimedia, and spoken word arts.
Clearfield writes for opera, orchestra, chorus, chamber ensembles, dance and multimedia collaborations and has composed a number of large-scale cantatas. Her style is lyrical and rhythmically compelling, with lush harmonies and contrasting fields of texture and sound color. Her work on the Golem Psalms includes the practice of gematria which she embeds into the composition. Clearfield's piece, Unremembered Wings, is based on the poetry of Pablo Neruda.
Source: Wikipedia and Andrea Clearfield Official Website
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Three songs for violin and double bass by Andrea Clearfield
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