“How often in today’s vocal music do we find ourselves surprised, truly touched by simple, unpredictably expressive music? In My Mother in Love . . . Anna Weesner reaches the listener uninsistently and indelibly from a fresh musical source as natural as it is mysterious.”
—American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Music, on awarding Weesner the Virgil Thomson Award for Vocal Music
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My Mother in Love is out now on Bridge Records. The ten-song cycle (music and lyrics by Anna Weesner) is performed by soprano Tony Arnold with the Cygnus Ensemble. The recording also includes two pieces of chamber music by Anna Weesner: Love Story in Six Parts, for oboe and strings (James Austin Smith and the Daedalus Quartet) and The Eight Lost Songs of Orlando Underground, for clarinet and strings (Romie de Guise-Langlois and the Lark Quartet).
Happy to announce the award of a 2023 Fromm Music Foundation Commission that will support the creation of a new album of songs! Working title: Hester Prynne Was Gorgeous