Glerakur - The Mountains Are Beautiful Now - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Roger Verdi - Trombone Roger Verdi holds a BA from Drew University and MMA from the Manhattan School of Music. His teachers included Edward Erwin, Hal Janks and Albert Lube. He is an active free-lance musician in the New York /New Jersey area. Ensembles he has performed with include the New Jersey Symphony, the New Philharmonic of New Jersey, the Riverside Symphony, the New Jersey State Opera, the Hawthorne Symphony, the Bridgeport Symphony, the Garden State Philharmonic, the Princeton Symphony, the Princeton Pro Musica, the New Jersey Pops, the Newark Cathedral Orchestra, the Delaware Symphony, North South Consonance, the New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players, the Village Light Opera Group, Ars Nova Singers, the Westfield Oratorio Society, the Greenwich Symphony, the Greenwich Choral Arts Society, the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra, the Garden State Band, and many others. In November of 2006, he performed Ferdinand David's Concertino for Trombone and Orchestra with the New Sussex Symphony in Newton New Jersey. He is a founding member of the Modern Brass Quintet, and has performed with that ensemble at the 92nd Street Y, Greenwich House, Merkin Hall, the Kosciuszko Foundation, the Storm King Arts Center, the Lincoln Center Library, as well as many other venues. He has recorded widely for the Newport Classics and Koch International labels. A veteran touring musician, he has traveled the United States many times performing opera and musical theater. His activities include many different styles of music; he has toured the world with the Glenn Miller Orchestra, performed in the orchestra for Ringling Bros. Circus, and recorded CDs for the Chico Mendoza and David Cedeno Orchestras. His CDs, Looking Ahead Works for Trombone, released in 2007, and Taking Steps Works for Trombone, released in 2009, have won critical acclaim and sold internationally. Roger performs on a Selmer

Stemming from a want to preserve the dwindling unique oral traditions of the Blue Ridge Mountain back-country region, Eric Davidson, Paul Newman and Caleb Finch performed field recordings of songs that exemplified the evolution of ballads in the region, creating an anthology of music that characterized the musical mountain traditions. Originating from folk music of the British Isles, many of the songs are performed with little or no instrumental accompaniment. These beautiful archaic folk melodies have retained their roots in the ballad and lament tradition, sung here by both men and women (traditionally ballads were sung only by women) with occasional lively banjo accompaniments. Album Tracks 1. The Hanging of Georgie (Child No. 209)- Sharp 34 2. Returning Sweetheart - Sharp 98 - a Pretty Fair Maid Down in the Garden - the Broken Token 3. Barbry Allen (Barbara Allen) 4. The Young Men and Maids - Sharp 165 - Silver Dagger 5. The Green Willow Tree - Child 286 - Sharp 41 - Golden Vanity 6. Ho Lilly Ho - Sharp 65 - Jack Went A-Sailing - Jack Munro 7. Walkin' in the Parlor 8. Little Sparrow - Sharp 118 - Come All You Fair and Tender Ladies 9. County Jail - Long Lonesome Road 10. Warfare Is A-Raging - Sharp 113 11. Pig in a Pen 12. Roving Ranger - Sharp 179 - Come All Ye Southern Soldiers - the Texas Rangers 13. Pretty Polly - Sharp 49 - the Cruel Ship's Carpenter 14. George Allen - Child 85 - Lady Alice - Sharp 25 - Giles Collins 15. Roving Gambler 16. Ten Thousand Miles - 10,000 Miles - Sharp 114 - the True Lover's Farewell 17. 1809 - Sharp 76 - Pretty Saro 18. Little Maggie 19. Death of the Lawson Family 20. Lonesome Day 21. Budded Roses - Little Bunch of Roses

This product is an authorized manufactured on demand CD-R Album Tracks 1. Mountain Music 2. Close Enough to Perfect 3. Words at Twenty Paces 4. Changes Comin' on 5. Green River 6. Take Me Down 7. You Turn Me on 8. Never Be One 9. Lovin' You Is Killin' Me 10. Gonna Have a Party