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The Enchantment of Heavenly Love: Music of Neely Bruce
2000, Village Harmony and Friends.
- Closing Year • from Hamm Harmony
- Johnson Road • from Hamm Harmony
- Butternut • from Hamm Harmony
- Walkley • from Hamm Harmony
- Chamberlain Hill • from Hamm Harmony
- Daniels • from Hamm Harmony
- Millbrook • from Hamm Harmony
- Where Ships of Purple • from Emily's Flowers
- If she had been the mistletoe • from Emily's Flowers
- Kill your balm • from Emily's Flowers
- The lilac is an ancient shrub • from Emily's Flowers
- There is a June when corn is cut • from Emily's Flowers
- A lady red • from Emily's Flowers
- All these my banners be • from Emily's Flowers
- Come to Zion • Shaker setting
- Enchantment • Shaker setting
- On Cherub's Wings • Shaker Setting
- I Want to Be Traveling Down, Down • Shaker setting
- Love, Oh Love • Shaker setting
- The Living Vine • Shaker setting
- Help Me, Oh Lord • Shaker setting
- King of Kings • Shaker setting
- The Enchantment of Heavenly Love • Shaker setting
About this album
Neely Bruce is a remarkably gifted and prolific composer, with hundreds of works to his credit in a phenomenally wide range of styles, from rock opera to classical piano, from simple parlor songs to ultra avant garde vocal techniques.
Bruce writes, "... my view of the shaped note universe is that it is expanding," and his shape-note pieces testify to that view. He chooses interesting and wonderfully graphic texts from unusual sources (the works of Emily Dickinson, the King James Bible, Shaker tunes, and the Old Baptist Hymnal, to name a few), while capturing the traditional shape-note sound and rhythmic drive.
Recorded in 1997 at the historic Strafford Town House in Strafford, VT