page_title: This Land Sings: Inspired by the Life and Times of Woody Guthrie
section_title: Recording
hierarchical_section_title: This Land Sings: Inspired by the Life and Times of Woody Guthrie / Recording
caption_attribution_description: English: Photo credit: Chris Shields; image supplied by Michael Daugherty
context_page_description: This Land Sings: Inspired by the Life and Times of Woody Guthrie is a song cycle for soprano singer, baritone singer and chamber ensemble composed in 2016 by the GRAMMY Award-winning American composer Michael Daugherty. The work is an original musical tribute by Michael Daugherty to the singer-songwriter and political activist Woody Guthrie.
  Before composing this work, Daugherty pursued research at the Woody Guthrie Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma and drove his car around the backroads of Texas and Oklahoma while listening to recordings of Woody Guthrie. Daugherty decided to organize his composition into 17 vocal and instrumental numbers like a radio broadcast on the Grand Ole Opry. Daugherty stated that his desire was to give “haunting expression, ironic with and contemporary relevance to the political, social and environmental themes from Woody Guthrie’s era.”
context_section_description: This Land Sings: Inspired by the Life and Times of Woody Guthrie was released on the Naxos label in 2020, featuring soprano Annika Socolofsky, baritone John Daugherty and the Albany Symphony Orchestra’s new music ensemble Dogs of Desire, under the baton of David Alan Miller.
caption: Composer Michael Daugherty and conductor David Alan Miller on stage during the recording session of This Land Sings: Inspired by the Life and Times of Woody Guthrie at the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, Troy, New York, June 3, 2017
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