Glass Angels

Dean Shostak | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 1, 1998)
• Original Release Date: June 1, 1998
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Coastline Music
• ASIN: B00000ADG7
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #149,395 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Joy To The World

2. Jingle Bells

3. I Wonder As I Wander

4. It Came Upon A Midnight Clear

5. Away In A Manger

6. Lo How A Rose E'er Blooming

7. Pat-A-Pan

8. Angels We Have Heard On High

9. We Three Kings Of Orient Are

10. Ding Dong Merrily On High

11. In The Bleak Midwinter

12. O Little Town Of Bethlehem

13. Deck The Halls

14. O Holy Night

15. Hark! The Herald Angels Sing

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The eerie music of angels, May 30, 2004

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E. A. Lovitt "starmoth" (Gladwin, MI USA) - See all my reviews
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"When Dr. Ben Franklin invented the glass armon he concealed it from his wife 'till the instrument was fit to play; and then woke her with it one night, when she took it for the music of angels." -- Leigh Hunt [1784-1858], Autobiography, 1850, "Musical Memories"

You may have heard Dean Shostak playing the glass armonica in Colonial Willimsburg, or on All Things Considered on NPR. If not, this recording gives you a chance to hear Christmas carols very eerily and beautifully played on this old American instrument.

"The glass armonica was invented by Benjamin Franklin in 1761. It consists of glass bowls tuned by size, mounted one inside each other with cork on a metal spindle. The glasses are made to spin with a flywheel attached to a foot treadle. Moistened fingers rub the exposed rims of the glasses to produce"...some very unique and beautiful sounds.

According to Dean Shostak's web page, he added the flywheel to the instrument to make it even more playable.

The glass armonica is accompanied by violin, piano, harp, and cello on this recording, and Ben Franklin's wife was right: it does sound like the music of angels.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Traditional Christmas Music for Glass Armonica, December 24, 2001

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E. A. Lovitt "starmoth" (Gladwin, MI USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Glass Angels (Audio CD)

"When Dr. Ben Franklin invented the glass armon he concealed it from his wife 'till the instrument was fit to play; and then woke her with it one night, when she took it for the music of angels."
- Leigh Hunt [1784-1858], Autobiography, 1850, "Musical Memories"

You may have heard Dean Shostak playing the glass armonica in Colonial Willimsburg, or on All Things Considered on NPR. If not, this recording gives you a chance to hear Christmas carols very eerily and beautifully played on this old American instrument.

"The glass armonica was invented by Benjamin Franklin in 1761. It consists of glass bowls tuned by size, mounted one inside each other with cork on a metal spindle. The glasses are made to spin with a flywheel attached to a foot treadle. Moistened fingers rub the exposed rims of the glasses to produce"...some very unique and beautiful sounds.

According to Dean Shostak's web page, he added the flywheel to the instrument to make it even more playable.

The glass armonica is accompanied by violin, piano, harp, and cello on this recording, and Ben Franklin's wife was right: it does sound like the music of angels.