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The Enchantment of Heavenly Love: Music of Neely Bruce
2000, Village Harmony and Friends.
- Closing Year
- Johnson Road
- Butternut
- Walkley
- Chamberlain Hill
- Daniels
- Millbrook
- Where Ships of Purple
- If she had been the mistletoe
- Kill your balm
- The lilac is an ancient shrub
- There is a June when corn is cut
- A lady red
- All these my banners be
- Come to Zion
- Enchantment
- On Cherub's Wings
- I Want to Be Traveling Down, Down
- Love, Oh Love
- The Living Vine
- Help Me, Oh Lord
- King of Kings
- The Enchantment of Heavenly Love
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