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piano-small.jpg Blue Griffin Recording is an independent recording label and full service recording company. We are located in Lansing, Michigan.
Recording engineer and producer Sergei Kvitko has completed degrees in music from Russia and the US, including Doctorate in Piano Performance from Michigan State University. (Read more...)
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Since 2006-07 season Blue Griffin and First Presbyterian Church of Lansing sponsor the "FINE ARTS SERIES" . ( Read more about the series ...)

 

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and flowers pick themselves. Songs of Ricky Ian Gordon


Melanie Helton, soprano; Ricky Ian Gordon, piano; Michigan State Univeristy Symphony Orhestra, Raphael Jimenez, conductor


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New CD of songs by Ricky Ian Gordon performed by
the fabulous Melanie Helton and composer at the piano.
The crown jewel of this CD is a world-premiere recording of
“and flowers pick themselves”
Five Songs for Soprano and Orchestra on Poetry by e. e. cummings
with Michigan State University Symphony Orchestra,
Raphael Jimenez, conductor
Produced and engineered by Sergei Kvitko
Cover Painting by Sheila Wolff
www.sheilawolff.com

Track listing (click on the title for sound sample)
1. Once I Was 3:54
2. I Am Cherry Alive 3:37
3. My Sister’s New Red Hat    2:51
4. Air 2:22
5. Little Horse 4:17
6. Poem (Lana Turner Has Collapsed!) 1:40
7. We Sat Smoking at a Table... 4:03
8. Coyotes 2:54
9. An Old Fashioned Song 4:11
10. If You Can 6:50
11. Spell Against Sorrow 5:10
12. Will There Really Be A “Morning”? 4:54
13. The Red Dress 2:53

 and flowers pick themselves (Five Songs for Soprano and Orchestra)
14. i thank You God for most this amazing 4:07
15. why did you go 3:36
16. Thy fingers make early flowers of 2:02
17 anyone lived in a pretty how town   7:25
18 who knows if the moon's  2:12

19. blessing the boats 3:31

Melanie Helton, soprano
Ricky Ian Gordon, piano (Tracks 1-13, 19)

Michigan State University Symphony Orchestra
Raphael Jiménez, conductor (Tracks 14-18)





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