[details ←] O Susannah! Piano, choral
[details ←] Three Melodies (score) Piano,
[details ←] Twelve American Songs - conductor’s score Piano, Percussion, Trombone,
[details ←] Lullaby from Tribute to Foster (score) Piano,
[details ←] Americana - full score Percussion,
[details ←] Americana - set of parts Percussion,
[details ←] Fantasie on ’My Old Kentucky Home’ (set (no score)) ,concert band,
[details ←] Fantasy and Fugue on ’Oh Susanna’ (extra condensed score)
[details ←] Fantasy and Fugue on ’Oh Susanna’ (set with condensed score)
[details ←] Gems of Stephen Foster [arrangement] (set (no score))
[details ←] Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair (extra condensed score) ,concert band,
[details ←] Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair (set with condensed score) ,concert band,
[details ←] Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair - conductor’s score Percussion, Saxophone, , sax, saxophone,
[details ←] Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair - set of parts Percussion, Saxophone, , sax, saxophone,
[details ←] My Old Kentucky Home ,concert band,
[details ←] My Old Kentucky Home ,concert band,
[details ←] My Old Kentucky Home ,concert band,
[details ←] Oh, Susanna! [arrangement] - conductor’s score Piano, Percussion, Saxophone, , sax, saxophone,
Rating: - Impressive Work on Complicated Matter
I think the "American Experience" covers more than top-down matters; they discuss presidents, but they also cover less famous people. I knew nothing about Stephen Foster, but this program explains why he's significant to American history.
As an African American, my knee-jerk reaction was to dismiss or ridicule anyone who made music for minstrel shows. However, this work complicates the matter. Mr. Foster made the first popular song to call an African-American woman a lady, rather ... Read More
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American song composer; one of the most gifted and inspired song composers, whose songs include some of the most imperishable the world has known, such as "Oh, Susanna!", "Old Folks at Home", "My Old Kentucky Home", "Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair", "Beautiful Dreamer", "Old Black Joe", "My Old Kentucky Home", and "Ring De Banjo".
Foster’s songs are typically divided into "Parlor" and "Plantation" melodies. Because of the racial stereotyping in the lyrics, the latter (typically superior to the former Parlor melodies) are nonetheless neglected in both literature and music classrooms. Nonetheless, to some degree, all contemporary American music owes a significant debt to those melodies, including their syncopation and melodic piquancy (cf. Alec Wilder, *American Popular Song*).
Despite his relative isolation from central European concert tradition, Foster must rank, with Franz Schubert, as one of the most inspired art song writers in the history of western music.
