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Maria Newman's "FOR BESS"
From Newman's: "Memories of a Fine Friend"
A Song Cycle on Poems of Louise Moss Montgomery

Composer: Maria Newman
Soprano: Isabella Thatcher
Viola: Scott Hosfeld
Piano: Maria Newman

00:00 Main Title Credits
00:18 FOR BESS

TEXT: (Louise Moss Montgomery)
Tuck her in carefully, dimming the lights,
Tearfully, prayerfully, tell her goodnight ~
Let all the pillows be piled at her head,
Under the willow tree, deep in her bed ~
Silently sleeping there under the sod,
You who are weeping there, leave her with God.

Master Photographer: Juan Tallo (JuanTallo.com)
(Photography used by permission)
Additional Photo from MAHMA Archives:
("MAHMA at Dusk")
Engineering, Mixing, and Mastering: Scott Hosfeld
Camera: Sonny Newman
Assistant Audio Mixer: Noah Hosfeld
Music Recorded LIVE at: the Montgomery Arts House
for Music & Architecture (MAHMA)
Malibu, California. USA

Maria Newman's "FOR BESS" is an art song from Maria Newman's
song cycle, "Memories of a Fine Friend" on poems of
Louise Moss Montgomery (1892 - 1978). Montgomery was
poet laureate of Mississippi from 1973 - 1978.

Maria Newman's "FOR BESS" is ca. 3 3/4 minutes in duration .
Newman's complete "Memories of a Fine Friend"
for Voices, Violas, and Piano is ca. 35 minutes in duration.

"FOR BESS," was recorded LIVE in isolation during the
lockdown of the COVID 19 pandemic and originally
aired on the "Montgomery Arts House Presents..."
LIVESTREAM Broadcast Series: the
classical live performance concert series
streaming from MAHMA, Malibu USA.

Sheet music for Maria Newman's "FOR BESS" is available
from the music store at: www.marianewmancomposer.com

MARIA NEWMAN ~ SHORT BIOGRAPHY
“Newman’s imagination and ingenuity make their mark in her vivid, colorful scoring.” —Stephen Greenbank (UK) Music Web International

Praised by American Record Guide as, "Energetic and exciting...", American
composer Maria Newman has been commended and recognized by the
U.S. Congress for her work in the field of original music composition, live
performance, and recording. Newman’s compositions have been
performed and screened in such elite venues as Carnegie Hall, the
Kennedy Center, the U.S. Capitol Building on Capitol Hill, the National
Archives in Washington D.C., Hearst Castle Private Theater, the President’s
Own Marine Band Barracks, Nokia’s NOVO Theatre, Heidelberg Castle,
Brevard Center for the Arts, the Music Scoring Stages of 20th Century Fox,
MGM, Paramount, Sony, Universal, and Warner Bros. Maria Newman has
been featured in spotlight one-on-one interviews and t performances as
"CBS Sunday Morning," National Public Radio's "From the Top with
Christopher O'Riley," and "NPR’s Performance Today." Additionally, her
silent film scores are featured on Turner Classics. Named a George
Wellington Miles Scholar of Yale University, Newman is an elected
member of the American Academic Music Honor Society, Pi Kappa
Lambda.

Maria Newman's original library of compositions have earned her
accolades as an Annenberg Foundation Composition Fellow, a Mary
Pickford Library Composition Fellow, a Sidney Stern Trust Composition
Fellow, and an American Variety Music Legend. Her music is heard on
radio and television around the globe, and live-in-concert at music and film
festivals.

Maria Newman is Composer-in-Residence with the Malibu Coast Chamber
Orchestra, SPaCE Salon Concerts Los Angeles, and the Malibu Coast
Silent Film Orchestra. Fanfare Magazine has lauded Newman’s
compositions, hailing, “This is real genius.” She has been celebrated by
NPR’s on-air icon of musical opinion, Jim Svejda, (Author/Host of The
Record Shelf Guide to the Classical Repertoire) as, “Hugely musical,
bewitching, witty, profound and playful, with an instantly recognizable and
unusually appealing musical personality, Maria Newman is one of the
most charming and distinctive composers of her generation.”
In the international spotlight, Maria Newman is the acclaimed viola soloist
in Miklos Rozsa’s Viola Concerto with the Nürnburg Symphoniker
(Germany) on the GRAMMY Award-winning Symphonic Hollywood CD
(Varese Sarabande label). She appeared as the physical animation
inspiration/violin soloist for “The Grasshopper” in the 1996 Walt Disney
release, "James and the Giant Peach."

Maria Newman is the youngest of 9-time Academy Award-winning
composer Alfred Newman. She is the sister of film
composers/conductors Thomas and David Newman, and the cousin of
Randy Newman. Maria Newman is married to American conductor and
violist, Scott Hosfeld.

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© 2008/2021 original music composition by Maria Newman
© 2021/2022 original music, sheet music and performance by
Montgomery Arts House Press
© 2021/2022 Recording and master audio/video by
Montgomery Arts House Modern Masterworks Recordings
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