The Good News Singers of Los Angeles, performed on February 17, 1973 at the Wilshire Ebell Theater in Los Angeles. Kent Kimball, conductor. Rob Skinell, trumpet. Becky Edwards, piano. Sopranos: Claudia Haynes, Norma Krummel, Peggy Schmid. Altos: Valerie Loskota, Gail Ferris, Becky Edwards. Tenors: Charles Bunnell, Hayden Jones, Rob Skinell. Basses: Mark Stevens, Huey Weatherby, Darrel Estel.
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The conductor of this performance posted it, I like how he gave full credit to everyone, wish they did that more often. I also like how Halsey Stevens and his wife were acknowledged at the end of the recording.
Halsey Stevens was a very good composer and scholar, probably most known for his biography of Bela Bartok and editor of a collection of his letters. You can, at times, hear the influence of Bartok but Stevens' style was always original enough so that you could hear his music was his own. I wish people recorded more of his many choral works because those I've seen and the few I've read through are very fine.
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