Canteloube/ Merritt/ Kennard - L'arada / Chants de France Format:CD when he had been forced

when he had been forced to flee Warsaw

The ensemble's laid back

bassist Michael Rinne and drummer Jon Radford

Of all the 'Viennese Classical School'

Released on Toronto-based Artoffact Records

Canteloube/ Merritt/ Kennard - L'arada / Chants de France Format:CD when he had been forcedFrench composer Joseph Canteloube (1879 1957) made a life's work of collecting, transcribing, and arranging folksongs. His Chants d'Auvergne has long been very popular. Much of the rest of his songs, though, have been unjustly neglected. Among these, L'arada emerges as a particularly intriguing work. A native of North Carolina, Dr. Coker Merritt received her Master of Music degree from UNC Greensboro, and her Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Vocal