The Glendy Burk

As part of the Butler/Geyer performance and recording project [See Carmen Fantasia (DHM0406) and Under Gypsy Skies (DHM 0403) and Carmen Fantasia (DH002CD), A Stephen Foster Sett was created to provide settings of three differing styles of Foster's music: parlour music - Come Where My Love Lies Dreamin, theatrical music - I Dream of Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair and work songs - The Glendy Burk. The accompaniment for Come Where My Love... is scored for a small chamber ensemble, Jeanie.. for an expandable chamber orchestra and Glendy Burk for a Civil War era brass band.