VOCAL MUSIC of Jeffrey Kaufman –
Nexus:
Richie Havens, narrator/vocalist Nexus
Janet Jordan, soprano Nexus
- Instrumental Prologue
- When I Was Young (recitation)
- When I Was Young (soprano solo)
- All Day the Streets are Crowded (recitation)
- We Are Like Snails
- Instrumental Interlude
- I Cherish (soprano solo)
- I Cherish (recitation)
Four Works for Small Chorus:
Gregg Smith, conductor
- Young and Old
- Frolic
- Pride of Youth
- The Reverie of Poor Susan
Emily Dickinson Four Songs of Nature
Kristen Plumley, soprano
Ron Levy, piano
- Nature Is What We See
- The Wind Begun to Knead the Grass
- A Something in a Summers’s Day
- Dear March – Come In
Hineni
Cantor Azi Schwartz
This compilation contains works dating from the early 1980s (“Nexus” when Jeffrey Kaufman was Music Director for Woodstock Festival superstar Richie Havens), to the most recent “Emily Dickinson Four Songs of Nature” 2018. His eclectic style has always been independent of any current trend. And in his vocal writing, he has always been guided and true to his sense of the underlying nature, meaning and style of the texts.
