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Pianist and harmoniumist ARTIS WODEHOUSE has devoted her careeer to preserving and disseminating neglected but valuable music and instruments from the past, with an emphasis on American music. Cited by the NYTimes as “savior of the old and neglected”, she received a National Endowment grant that propelled her into production of CDs and published transcriptions of recorded performances and piano rolls made by George Gershwin, Jelly Roll Morton and Zez Confrey. Her best-seller, “Gershwin Plays Gershwin”, on the Nonesuch label has sold over 500,000 copies. Beginning in 2000, Wodehouse began performing on a representative group of antique reed organs and harmoniums, toy pianos and an 1823 English square piano and an 1860 Steinway square piano that she had painstakingly restored and brought to concert condition. She founded the chamber group MELODEON in 2010 to present little known but valuable music from 19th and early 20th Century America, using her antique instrument collection as the basis for repertoire choice. Wodehouse has a BM from the Manhattan School of Music, an MM from Yale, and a DMA from Stanford.
Posted on December 13, 2012 by admin

Marti Newland A Negro Sermon Will Marion Cook

Published on Aug 1, 2012 Soprano Marti Newland performs Exhortation, A Negro Sermon from 1912 by the African-American composer, Will Marion Cook (1869-1944). She is accompanied by pianist Artis Wodehouse, who precedes the selection with a brief piano solo taken … Read the rest of this entry →

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Anthony Heinrich 1823 Toccatina capriciosa Artis Wodehouse pianist

Published on Jun 20, 2012 Artis Wodehouse performs Anthony Philip Heinrich’s 1823 Toccatina capriciosa from his Op. 3 works entitled The Sylviad, or Minstrelsy of Nature in the Wilds of North America. Heinrich (1781 — 1861) was the first “full-time” … Read the rest of this entry →

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George Spitzer/Charles Ives At the River

Published on Mar 31, 2012 Baritone George Spitzer sings Charles Ives 1916 song, At the River live in the Melodeon concert at Church of the Epiphany, 74th and York Ave., NYC 3/25/12. He is accompanied by pianist Artis Wodehouse. Ives’ … Read the rest of this entry →

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George Spitzer/Charles Ives When Stars are in the Quiet Skies song

Published on Mar 31, 2012 Baritone George Spitzer sings Charles Ives 1891 song, When Stars are in the Quiet Skies, lyrics by Bulwer-Lytton live in the Melodeon concert at Church of the Epiphany, 74th and York Ave., NYC 3/25/12. He … Read the rest of this entry →

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Marti Newland/Eva Jessye Spiritual I’m a Po’ Lil’ Orphan

Published on Mar 31, 2012 Soprano Marti Newland sings live in concert the traditional Afro-American Spiritual, I’m a Po’ Lil’ Orphan from the 1927 collection entitled “My Spirituals” edited and arranged by Eva Jessye at Church of the Epiphany, 74th … Read the rest of this entry →

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Marti Newland/Eva Jessye Spiritual Bles’ My Soul An’ Gon

Published on Mar 31, 2012 Soprano Marti Newland sings live in concert the traditional Afro-American Spiritual, Bles’ My Soul An’ Gone from the 1927 collection entitled “My Spirituals” edited and arranged by Eva Jessye at Church of the Epiphany, 74th … Read the rest of this entry →

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Artis Wodehouse: Arthur Bird Improvisato Mason & Hamlin pump organ

Artis Wodehouse performs Arthur Bird’s 1898 “Improvisato” on her unique Model 86K Mason & Hamlin foot-pump reed organ live at the Melodeon Concert 3/25/12 at Church of the Epiphany in NYC. Bird’s composition was specially written for this exact model … Read the rest of this entry →

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Artis Wodehouse: Arthur Bird on 1918 foot-pump Mason & Hamlin organ

Published on Mar 30, 2012 Artis Wodehouse performs Arthur Bird’s 1898 “Auf dem Lande” on her unique Model 86K Mason & Hamlin foot-pump reed organ live at the Melodeon Concert 3/25/12 at Church of the Epiphany in NYC. Bird’s composition … Read the rest of this entry →

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George Spitzer/Charles Ives song, Charlie Rutlage

Published on Mar 30, 2012 Baritone George Spitzer sings Charles Ives undated song, Charlie Rutlage live in the Melodeon concert at Church of the Epiphany, 74th and York Ave., NYC 3/25/12. He is accompanied by pianist Artis Wodehouse. Ives’ song … Read the rest of this entry →

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Liebeslied from Threepenny: voice, piano, Mustel harmonium

Uploaded on Feb 25, 2012 Marti Newland, soprano, George Spitzer, baritone, William Workinger, piano and Artis Wodehouse perform Liebeslied from Weill’s Threepenny Opera 2/11/12 at Ann Goodman Recital Hall, Kaufman Center, NYC. The arrangement by Artis Wodehouse includes her 1902 … Read the rest of this entry →

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