ANONYMOUS 4'S GLORYLAND REACHES NO. 16 ON BILLBOARD'S TOP CLASSICAL ALBUMS FOR 2007
Gloryland charted at 16 on Billboard 's Year End Charts of 2007, for Top Classical Albums. Congratulations to Anonymous 4!
Spring 2008 brings new tour dates for the group in the U.S., including dates in Alaska and Hawaii. Concerts in Washington, California, Alaska, Nebraska, Kansas and Texas will feature material from Gloryland with collaborators Darol Anger and Scott Nygaard .
"The solo voices are always strong, true, and--most importantly--expressive of the texts, and together the ensemble makes a sound at once solid and uplifting, worthy of the music's power and purpose." -ClassicsToday.com
"...within the purity and precision there is much vocal variety among these four singers and these motets allow us to hear their individual qualities quite clearly." -International Record Review
ANONYMOUS 4 PERFORMS WITH DAROL ANGER AND SCOTT NYGAARD, FEATURING MUSIC FROM CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED ALBUM GLORYLAND
Joined by collaborators and folk star instrumentalists Darol Anger and Scott Nygaard , Anonymous 4 will delight listeners with hymns, folk songs, and ballads in six special appearances for fall/winter 2007. See show info above.
"This is a truly sublime album." -Billboard
"Hearing Anonymous 4 is about as close as you're going to get on this earth to hearing angels sing. ...Anonymous 4's Gloryland is a glorious addition to your life." -Roots 66
"ANGELS IN AMERICA - This is a wondrous, essential, fabulously beautiful disc.†-LA Weekly
“Haunting and inspirational" -Dallas Morning News
GLORYLAND available at:
AMAZON.COM
Harmonia Mundi
BIO
MARSHA GENENSKY grew up in the foothills of the Santa Monica Mountains. After earning a B.A. in music and folklore from Scripps College, she traveled east in order to pursue an M.A. in folklore and folklife at the University of Pennsylvania before moving to New York and helping to found Anonymous 4. Languages, other historical research, plus writing and adapting readings for concert programs with Johanna, have been among her much-loved tasks for Anonymous 4. Inspired by her role as music director for the groups runaway hit CD, American Angels, she designed Gloryland as a sequel recording project with guest instrumentalists Darol Anger and Mike Marshall. She recently returned to California, and is spending this year as a visiting assistant professor at Stanford University. As longtime explorers of older musical treasures and creators of new ones, Marsha and Susan Hellauer have also become the duo The Lost Girls.
SUSAN HELLAUER is a native of the beautiful Bronx, New York. While she was earning a B.A. in music as a trumpeter from Queens College (City University of New York), an increasing fascination with medieval and Renaissance vocal music led her to convert to singing, and to pursue advanced degrees in musicology from Queens College and Columbia University. Susan handles Anonymous 4s medieval music research, and is an adjunct Associate Professor of Music at Queens College, CUNY. She has appeared as a soloist with the Harp Consort, and in October 2006 joins the U.S. tour of the Fès Festival of World Sacred Music. Susan also plays Baroque guitar with the New York Continuo Collective, and is a volunteer EMT with the Nyack Community Ambulance Corps. With Marsha, Susan is hard at work on an album of American tunes about lovers lost and true loves found, The Lost Girls first recording project for harmonia mundi usa.
JACQUELINE HORNER comes from a little village called Monkstown, in Northern Ireland. After getting a joint honors degree in Music and English from Queens University Belfast she moved to London and became a professional singer known for her willingness to sing all types of music, from baroque and classical opera and oratorio to the extremes of new music. (Her roles in contemporary opera included an 8-year-old girl, Jackie Kennedy, and a sheep.) She now is delighted to be living in New York. In addition to her recording and touring activities with Anonymous 4, she has a busy career as a soloist, appearing with many distinguished ensembles, including the Washington Bach Consort and the Carmel Bach Festival, and singing everything from Bach to Babbitt. She also teaches singing and ensemble vocal technique in Manhattan and beyond. For more information visit her website: Jacqueline Horner
JOHANNA MARIA ROSE spent her childhood in a village on the Hudson reading every childrens book she could find. Besides earning a Bachelor of Music in Voice from Manhattan School of Music, she has studied acting, speech, and writing. A long-standing love of early music led her to an M.F.A. in Performance of Medieval and Renaissance Music from Sarah Lawrence College, which in turn led to the inspiration to found Anonymous 4. She has undertaken historical and language research for the ensemble, as well as writing and adapting readings for concert programs. She was researcher and designer of the groups 2003 recording, Wolcum Yule, with harpist Andrew Lawrence-King. In addition to singing on the soundtrack of the PBS documentary, He Who Is Blessed, she spent much of 2005 as a consulting editor for the new NPR Encyclopedia of Classical Music. She is presently designing her own radio program, as well as entering the field of music journalism. Returning to her early love, she is also developing ideas for several childrens books.
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