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“She was no classical music snob.”
“A journeyman miller is wandering the countryside looking to pick up work.”
“Though, sadly, Anderson became a fatherless child, she had a mother who adored her.”
“Anderson had been steeped in musical ambiguity through the Negro spirituals she grew up with.”
“He hears a gurgling brook, which seems to be beckoning him, and heads to it.”
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“I cannot imagine that Anderson experienced Schubert songs and other “higher” German lieder as superior or transcendent.”
“Instead, he calls upon intermediaries, like a starling he wants to train to sing his words at her window.”
“He is the author of four books, including The Indispensable Composers , a guide to the greatest works of classical music in the canon.”
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“But that summer, listening to the recording of this Schubert song cycle alone in the finished basement of our home, I was utterly hooked and couldn’t understand why.”
“Schubert’s songs, she noted, “were rewarding for pianist and singer.” How so?”
“But it was immediate and powerful.”
“Anderson affirms something she demonstrated in practice throughout her career—that no songs by Schubert or Brahms are more sublime and profound than Negro spirituals.”
“And, she added: “I do not have to tell you that I dearly love the Negro spirituals.”
““When one is serious by nature, one is moved by serious things,” she explained; in a way “light songs are a form of flattery” that “serve to put one in a pleasant frame of mind.” But, Anderson noted, there had been a great change in the musical taste of American audiences during the last twenty years.”
“Rather than deterring her, the ambiguities made her want to hear and know more.”
“The vocal line is tender, yet insistent and questioning.”
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“Sometimes we prefer to keep it that way and not try to account for how it speaks to us.”