The orchestra recorded the album during the pandemic.
After announcing an ambitious 2024-2025 season this spring, the Dallas Chamber Symphony hit an important milestone: releasing its debut album.
“It was a major project for us at the time and we thought it an important part of our story,” McKay said., a piece Martha Graham commissioned for her dance company and premiered in 1944. The story of the ballet centers on a young couple creating a home in the Pennsylvania hills in the early 1800s. The music is evocative of the Shaker community, introducing the Shaker tune “Simple Gifts” to a wider audience. The work is considered quintessentially American.
“Musicians at that time were not performing nearly as regularly, if at all. We were requiring them to keep up their jobs and to be ready to go when it was time to record. That’s hard to do when you’re not performing regularly. It’s hard to come out of the pandemic, sit down in a rehearsal and be ready to go in a recording studio essentially within a couple of days, and especially on such challenging repertoire.
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