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Percy Grainger 'Tribute to Stephen Foster' - Sir Andrew Davis conducts

Percy Grainger's 'Tribute to Foster,' an extraordinary musical extravaganza, was played at the Last Night of the 2000 Proms by the BBCSO & Chorus, plus several vocal soloists, under Sir Andrew Davis's baton. Grainger composed it as a birthday gift to his mother and described it as "a study in 'musical glasses' effect based upon Stephen Foster's 'Camptown Races' for six single voices, mixed chorus, men's voices, musical glasses and bowls, bowed metal marimba, piano solo and orchestra (or 2nd piano)." Grainger further elaborated as follows: "One of my earliest musical recollections is that of my mother singing me to sleep with Stephen Foster's song 'Camptown Races' ('Doodah'). In the spring of 1913 I began a composition based on this entrancing ditty in which I wished to give musical expression to these Australian memories and to my ever-increasing love and reverence for this great American genius - one of the most tender, touching and subtle melodists and poets of all time; a mystic dreamer no less than a whimsical humorist. "It is, maybe, only natural that I should instinctively think of 'Camptown Races' both as a dance-song and as a lullaby, and at the beginning and end of my above-mentioned choral composition the tune is heard in its original lively character, while in the middle of the work is interposed a 'lullaby' section mirroring a mood awakened by memories of my mother's singing, in which the Foster tune is treated very freely indeed, and in which solo strings, piano, harp, celesta, glockenspiel, Deagan steel marimbaphone or Hawkes' resonaphone (played with bows), Deagan wooden marimbaphone (played with bows), and a large army of wineglasses and glass bowls of greatly varying sizes and pitches (their rims rubbed by wet fingers) accompany six solo voices that sing verses of my own: "In Pittsburgh town a man did dwell; (Doodah! Doodah!) His name was Foster as I've heard tell. (Oh! Doodah day!) Foster's dead and gone away; (Doodah! Doodah!) His songs dey lib for eber an' aye. (Oh! Doodah day!)" ... etc. Reproduced with acknowledgements to Percy Grainger org.: "A Source Guide to the Music of Percy Grainger" by Thomas P. Lewis