American composer Dana Suesse was hailed by the press as the “girl Gershwin” in the 1930s and her composing career encompassed that period to the time of her death in the 1980s. Although more famous as the composer of the popular songs “You Ought to Be in Pictures” (with lyricist Eddie Heyman), "The Night Is Young and You're So Beautiful" (with Billy Rose & Irving Kahal) & "Moon about Town" (with E.Y. Harburg), Suesse was an equally prolific composer of works for the concert hall. On December 11, 1974, Frederick Fennell conducted the American Symphony Orchestra in a concert of Dana Suesse’s works at Carnegie Hall which featured another famous composer, Cy Coleman (Wildcat, Sweet Charity) at the piano, harpist Robert Barlow & Suesse herself in a piano encore. The concert was recorded with a single point stereo mike on a standard reel to reel tape recorder which was later released on CD. The present download used the same tape source DSD archived and completely remixed & remastered for slightly improved sound. The source was non Dolby and had more hiss than a typical studio produced recording of the 1970s but I have kept the noise reduction to a minimum to preserve the high frequencies but the usual live audience noises also intrude occasionally. Nevertheless, the musical content is well worth a listen and it seems to me that the 1930s press got it all wrong with the reference to Gershwin (except for the obvious jazz influence). Dana Suesse was more like a female Igor Stravinsky since her concert works display a neo classic complexity that, like Stravinsky, was quite radical and new for the time, yet at the same time, her music is unmistakably American. Despite the compromised sound, I think you will find much to enjoy in the music of Dana Suesse, a true American original.

DANA SUESSE: Concert Works (recorded in performance at Carnegie Hall, New York, N.Y. December 11, 1974)
MP3 (320 mbps): https://www.sendspace.com/file/2ux7e9
FLAC no longer available.

thanks stevie

Thank you steviefromalaska for another completely unique post of music from a composer I had never heard of until now.

Any chance of an mp3 download, please, steviefromalaska?

metropole2 wrote: "Any chance of an mp3 download, please"

Here is a link to a mp3 file of this Dana Suesse collection:
MP3 (320 mbps): https://www.sendspace.com/file/2ux7e9

thanks

Fantastic! Thank you!

Such a rarity must be thanked, 1000 thanks.

I missed this x any chance of a new link

I missed this x any chance of a new link

Here is a new link to a 320 mbps MP3 file (sorry, no flac available) of this collection:
MP3 (320 mbps): https://www.sendspace.com/file/2ux7e9

Here is an updated limited time link to the Dana Suesse Concert Collection:
MP3 (320 mbps): https://www.sendspace.com/file/2ux7e9