Saving Daylight Time
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All-American songs by a new specialist in vocal music.

David Patterson, Ph.D. Harvard University, names as his teachers Leon Kirchner, Nadia Boulanger and Olivier Messiaen at the Paris Conservatory. He served as chairman of the Music Department for fifteen years at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Poet TenBroeck Davison, great granddaughter of Richard W. Sears, founder of the first mail-order firm, Sears Company, lived and studied on both sides of the Texas border. Having lived in Corpus Christi, her poems evoke images of her adolescent years spent absorbing the flavor of two cultures converging in that southernmost point of the continental United States. Poet James Merrill (1926-1995), the son of Charles Merrill, who was a founder of the stock brokerage firm, Merrill Lynch, published fifteen books of poetry. Last Words was commissioned for "An Evening of Words and Music" at Washington University with James Merrill, who was then poet-in-residence.
Contents:
David Patterson, composer
Saving Daylight Time: Songs from a Texas Border Town
Valerie Anastasio, vocals, Mark Earley, harmonicas

David Patterson, composer
Last Words
Donald Wilkinson, baritone, David Patterson, piano

David Patterson, composer
Dead-Battery Blues
Valerie Anastasio, vocals, David Patterson, piano

Review:
"...Saving Daylight Time (1995) is a charming bit of Americana depicting poet TenBroeck Davison's childhood in the border town of Brownsville, Texas. Patterson sets the 15 poems in a very simple neo-classic style, a bit like Barber without the romanticism or Copland without the flair. The harmonica adds occasional atmosphere." (American Record Guide)
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