Stephen Salters - Ruehr Songs For Stephen (2025) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Songs for Stephen represents a nearly three-decade collaboration between esteemed composer Elena Ruehr and celebrated baritone Stephen Salter's. Elena describes the time "a handsome and charismatic young man approached me after a premiere of one of my compositions at Boston University. He asked me to write him a song cycle for his debut recital with the Bank of Boston's Celebrity Series. I told him to send me a recording of his singing and I'd think about it. The first note I heard Stephen sing sent a bolt of energy down my spine: this was the singer I had always wanted to write for!"
Stephen reciprocates, "What a once-in-a-lifetime collaboration has landed in my life both professionally and personally with Elena. From my first personal musical envelopment of her first song ever written for me, I truly fell in love with her creations for me, and thus we began this truly special and unique journey." Elena evocatively sets some of America's most notable poets, including Cuban-American and National Humanities Medal recipient Richard Blanco who read his own work at the second inauguration of President Barack Obama, himself a subject of Five Men in Guggenheim Fellow Elizabeth Alexander's encapsulation of two centuries' worth of multiple African-Americans experiences.

TRACKLIST

1. Stephen Salters - Five Men: I. Blue Prelude
2. Stephen Salters - Five Men: II. Waiting for Cinque
3. Stephen Salters - Five Men: III. Nat Turner Dreams of Insurrection
4. Stephen Salters - Five Men: IV. Carver’s Song
5. Stephen Salters - Five Men: V. The Elders
6. Stephen Salters - Lied
7. Stephen Salters - Travel Songs: I. Somewhere to Paris
8. Stephen Salters - Travel Songs: II. A Poet in Venice
9. Stephen Salters - Travel Songs: III. Torsos at the Louvre
10. Stephen Salters - Wonderful Bears
11. Stephen Salters - Lullabies & Spring Songs: I. Signs of Spring
12. Stephen Salters - Lullabies & Spring Songs: II. April Rain
13. Stephen Salters - Lullabies & Spring Songs: III. City
14. Stephen Salters - Lullabies & Spring Songs: IV. Sandman
15. Stephen Salters - Lullabies & Spring Songs: V. Year Round
16. Stephen Salters - Lullabies & Spring Songs: VI. Autumn Thought
17. Stephen Salters - Lullabies & Spring Songs: VII. Stars



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