Root: The Haymakers: Part the Second

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Release Date: 20th Oct 2007
Catalogue No: NW80234
Label: New World
Length: 40 minutes

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Root: Good Morning

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Erma Rose
University of North Texas Grand Chorus
Frank McKinley

Root: How Pleasant Are Those Cheerful Words

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Erma Rose, Mark Myers
University of North Texas Grand Chorus
Frank McKinley

Root: Blithely Go We Forth

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Mark Myers, Erma Rose
University of North Texas Grand Chorus
Frank McKinley

Root: Light Hearted Are We

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Erma Rose
University of North Texas Grand Chorus
Frank McKinley

Root: How Like Some Tented Camp

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Erma Rose
University of North Texas Grand Chorus
Frank McKinley

Root: Joy!

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Linda Brannon, Erma Rose
University of North Texas Grand Chorus
Frank McKinley

Root: Scenes of Happiness

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Linda Brannon, Erma Rose
University of North Texas Grand Chorus
Frank McKinley

Root: The Dew Now Is Off

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Erma Rose, Gary Petersen
University of North Texas Grand Chorus
Frank McKinley

Root: Toss It Hither

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Erma Rose
University of North Texas Grand Chorus
Frank McKinley

Root: Hark To the Cheerful Sound

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Erma Rose
University of North Texas Grand Chorus
Frank McKinley

Root: How Good Is He, the Giver

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Linda Brannon, Burr Phillips, Erma Rose, Carolyn Finley, Chris Hodges, Mark Myers
University of North Texas Grand Chorus
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Root: How Sultry Is the Day

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Erma Rose
University of North Texas Grand Chorus
Frank McKinley

Root: How Hushed

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Erma Rose, Mark Myers
University of North Texas Grand Chorus
Frank McKinley

Root: Yes! To the Work

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Erma Rose
University of North Texas Grand Chorus
Frank McKinley

Root: Now Creaks the Heavy Wagon

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Gary Petersen, Erma Rose
University of North Texas Grand Chorus
Frank McKinley

Root: Shrouded Is the Sun

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Mark Jones, Patti Abasolo, Marc Much, Erma Rose, Phyllis Bush
University of North Texas Grand Chorus
Frank McKinley

Root: Lo! The Clouds are Breaking

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Erma Rose, Phyllis Bush, Marc Much
University of North Texas Grand Chorus
Frank McKinley

Root: Rainbow, Hail to Thee

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Erma Rose
University of North Texas Grand Chorus
Frank McKinley

Root: All Nature Now Rejoices

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Carolyn Finley, Erma Rose
University of North Texas Grand Chorus
Frank McKinley

Root: With Grateful Hearts

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Mark Myers, Erma Rose
University of North Texas Grand Chorus
Frank McKinley

Root: Harvest Home!

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Erma Rose
University of North Texas Grand Chorus
Frank McKinley

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When The Haymakers was performed in Chicago in 1860, the Tribune for January 9 praised:

... the freshness of its music, which, combined with the naturalness of the plot, depicts with great truthfulness, while it slightly idealizes, the labors of the American hayfield.... The Italian opera walks on stilts, deals in exaggeration, and treats largely of kings, queens, dukes, and nobles. This is purely democratic, exalts labor, ridicules the useless city dandy, and holds up for your admiration the sturdy Farmer and his household, who learn from nature, the pure, the true, the beautiful....

Making its first appearance on CD, The Haymakers is an integral and indispensable part of the mosaic of the emerging American musical culture of the nineteenth century. It is a secular dramatic cantata on an American subject and was written in 1857, when large-scale American works were not yet supposed to have developed. It is the best-wrought and was the most successful of the five penned by George F. Root (1820-1895), remembered primarily for rousing Civil War songs like "The Battle Hymn of Freedom" and parlor songs modeled on those of Stephen Foster. Root was also a highly regarded choral instructor as well as an accomplished singer. Musically, The Haymakers reflects his intimate knowledge of the vocal and choral music of Haydn, Mendelssohn, and Schubert, among others. Charm and a robust vitality of spirit imbue this unusual and important piece of early Americana-a paean to the rugged individual spirit of a young nation struggling to assert its own cultural identity.

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