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.
I've always liked this setting, it deserves to be performed more and recorded more. I'm grateful to Kent Kimball for posting this on Youtube, it's a lot clearer than the mp3 that I found several years back. It would be interesting to hear it with the organ instead of the piano which the score lists as an option, though I really like the piano version with the trumpet. Very clear and decisive.
Halsey Steven's choral music is very good, his music should be the subject of a revival. If American music is still capable of doing that.
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