page_title: This Land Sings: Inspired by the Life and Times of Woody Guthrie
hierarchical_section_title: This Land Sings: Inspired by the Life and Times of Woody Guthrie
caption_attribution_description: English: Studio album by Michael Daugherty (Naxos 8.559889); CD booklet image supplied by Naxos
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 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 (1912–1967).
  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.”
caption: Studio album by Michael Daugherty (Naxos 8.559889); CD booklet image supplied by Naxos
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