Cheney Family Singers

The Cheney Family Singers was a familyconsisting of a sister and four brothers; Moses, Nathaniel, Simeon, Joseph, and Elizabeth[1][2] who were early American singers from 1845 to 1847. They were led by Moses Ela Cheney.[3] Walt Whitman reviewed the group in 1845, concluding that they were one of the “American vocal bands that in true music really surpass almost any of the vaunted artificial performers from abroad.”[4] He considered them to have a "refreshing simplicity".[5]

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References

  1. Tawa, Nicholas E. (2000). High-minded and Low-down: Music in the Lives of Americans, 1800-1861. Northeastern University Press. pp. 118–119. ISBN 978-1-55553-442-4.
  2. Music: A Monthly Magazine, Devoted to the Art, Science, Technic and Literature of Music. W.S.B. Mathews. 1897. p. 122.
  3. Lee, Forrester A.; Pringle, James S. (2018-07-03). A Noble and Independent Course: The Life of the Reverend Edward Mitchell. Dartmouth College Press. p. 111. ISBN 978-1-5126-0285-2.
  4. Whitman, Walt. "Art-Singing and Heart-Singing". The New York Review of Books. Retrieved 2020-10-29.
  5. Peer, Larry H.; Hoeveler, Diane Long (1998). Comparative Romanticisms: Power, Gender, Subjectivity. Camden House. p. 84. ISBN 978-1-57113-170-6.

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