{"product_id":"garfein-slattery-hall-mortality-mansions","title":"Garfein \/ Slattery \/ Hall: Mortality Mansions - COMPACT DISCS","description":"\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eMortality Mansions\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eArtist: \u003c\/b\u003eGarfein \/ Slattery \/ Hall\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eLabel: \u003c\/b\u003eDelos Records\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eProduct Type: \u003c\/b\u003eCOMPACT DISCS\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eUPC: \u003c\/b\u003e013491354828\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eGenre: \u003c\/b\u003eClassical\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eRelease Date: \u003c\/b\u003e2018-06-08\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eNumber of Discs: \u003c\/b\u003e1\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \n                                         \u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \n                                         \n                                         In this unique Delos album, two-time Grammy Award-winning composer, librettist, and producer Herschel Garfein introduces Mortality Mansions: a stunning new song cycle setting poems by former U.S. poet laureate Donald Hall. Hall's plain-spoken, yet profound poetry reveals his candid perspectives on aging, with it's inevitable physical decline, fears, personal losses, and emotional trials. Yet he balances these negative aspects with such persisting joys and pleasures as loving companionship and physical intimacy. Garfein's music effectively envelops Hall's verses like a glove, illuminating their attendant moods, potent emotions, and stark verbal imagery. The album includes an interlude of Hall's readings of his poetry, and ends with a memorable epilogue: Garfein's pensive setting of a moving poem by Jane Kenyon, Hall's late wife. Tenor Michael Slattery performs the song cycle brilliantly, and soprano Marnie Breckenridge interprets the epilogue to devastating effect. Exceptional piano collaboration comes courtesy of Dimitri Dover.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTracks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1.1 When the Young Husband - Various Performers \u003cbr\u003e1.2 When I Was Young - Various Performers \u003cbr\u003e1.3 Woolworth's - Various Performers \u003cbr\u003e1.4 The Green Shelf - Various Performers \u003cbr\u003e1.5 Fête - Various Performers \u003cbr\u003e1.6 The Young Watch Us - Various Performers \u003cbr\u003e1.7 Summer Kitchen - Various Performers \u003cbr\u003e1.8 Dying Is Simple, She Said - Various Performers \u003cbr\u003e1.9 Deathwork - Various Performers \u003cbr\u003e1.10 Freezes and Junes - Various Performers \u003cbr\u003e1.11 Gold - Various Performers \u003cbr\u003e1.12 When the Young Husband - Donald Hall \u003cbr\u003e1.13 When I Was Young - Donald Hall \u003cbr\u003e1.14 Woolworth's - Donald Hall \u003cbr\u003e1.15 The Green Shelf - Donald Hall \u003cbr\u003e1.16 Fête - Donald Hall \u003cbr\u003e1.17 The Young Watch Us - Donald Hall \u003cbr\u003e1.18 Summer Kitchen - Donald Hall \u003cbr\u003e1.19 Dying Is Simple, She Said - Donald Hall \u003cbr\u003e1.20 Deathwork - Donald Hall \u003cbr\u003e1.21 Freezes and Junes - Donald Hall \u003cbr\u003e1.22 Gold - Donald Hall \u003cbr\u003e1.23 Otherwise - Donald Hall\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Garfein \/ Slattery \/ Hall","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40557979074631,"sku":"36213382","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2976\/0132\/files\/3793046.jpg?v=1747795109","url":"https:\/\/tower.com\/products\/garfein-slattery-hall-mortality-mansions","provider":"Tower Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}