Ave Maria Mass - Suite For The Americas

Track Listings
1. Kyrie    
2. Gloria    
3. Sanctus    
4. Benedictus    
5. Agnus Dei    
6. Ave Maria    
7. Gratias Deo    
8. The Eagle Soars    
9. I Will Fear No Evil    
10. Tall Ships    
11. The Grand Mississippi    
12. Cowboy's Jig    
13. Flag in the Breeze    
14. Central Park Waltz    
15. Mighty Redwoods    
16. Building a Nation    
17. Eternal Flame    
18. Niagra Falls    
19. Baseball Hero    
20. Elegy to our Fallen Heroes    
See all 21 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews
Album Description
"Suite for the Americas" is a collection of short movements that highlight the greatness of our country and its people. "The Eagle Soars" honors our police, firefighters, armed forces and other civil servants who protect us; "Cowboy's Jig" is a symphonic celebration of our heritage and spirit; "The Grand Mississippi" "Mighty Redwoods" and "Niagra Falls" musically describe the beauty of our vast country, and "Elegy to our Fallen Heroes" honors all who have lost their lives in service to our country.

Ave Maria Mass - Suite For The Americas, Music, Stephen Edwards, Nic Raine Jo-Michael Scheibe, City Of Prague Philharmonic, London Sinfonia
Ave Maria Mass - Suite For The Americas
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Ave Maria Mass - Suite For The Americasjk
 Ave Maria Mass - Suite For The Americas

ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00007FY89
Release Date: 2002-11-01

Tracks:

  1. Kyrie
  2. Gloria
  3. Sanctus
  4. Benedictus
  5. Agnus Dei
  6. Ave Maria
  7. Gratias Deo
  8. The Eagle Soars
  9. I Will Fear No Evil
  10. Tall Ships
  11. The Grand Mississippi
  12. Cowboy's Jig
  13. Flag in the Breeze
  14. Central Park Waltz
  15. Mighty Redwoods
  16. Building a Nation
  17. Eternal Flame
  18. Niagra Falls
  19. Baseball Hero
  20. Elegy to our Fallen Heroes
  21. Patriotic Parade

Album Description

"Suite for the Americas" is a collection of short movements that highlight the greatness of our country and its people. "The Eagle Soars" honors our police, firefighters, armed forces and other civil servants who protect us; "Cowboy's Jig" is a symphonic celebration of our heritage and spirit; "The Grand Mississippi" "Mighty Redwoods" and "Niagra Falls" musically describe the beauty of our vast country, and "Elegy to our Fallen Heroes" honors all who have lost their lives in service to our country.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Ave Maria Mass - Suite For The Americasjk.......2003-01-07

Steve Edwards has composed a moving tribute to the victims
of 9/11 in his Ave Maria Mass. He has an excellent
appreciation for this genre of music, creating a reverent
transcendence. For those who enjoy fluid, coherent lines
of music, Mr. Edwards satisfies this longing. The Gloria
moves well, the Sanctus and Benedictus are magnificent.
The Agnus Dei hauntingly echoes the musical statement of
the Kyrie. His Ave Maria is a wonderful work, that I
found appealing.

The Suite for the Americas is a set of short pieces for
very enjoyable and often very inspirational listening. It
begins with a musical flight into what seems an ethereal
vista over one of America's great wonders and plummets
to what seems some profound journey.

All of the music uses pleasing melodic structures with all
dissonances resolved with a canvas of pleasant, beautiful,
or magnificent phrasing that I appreciated greatly.

It almost seems Steve takes you on a musical afternoon
on his Tall Ships, and then steams you down the Grand
Mississippi, with music that seems to let you see the
danger of the shoals but the magnificence of the moving
waters.

In the mind's eye, Steve helps one see the Flag waving
in the breeze, the redwoods reaching to the skies.
The Eternal Flame is haunting and the Elegy to our Fallen
Heroes is the tribute is is meant to be, touching on their
greatness and their loss.

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