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A water bird talk Six Elizabethan songs

Title: A water bird talk [sound recording] ; Six Elizabethan songs / Dominick Argento.
Author: Argento, Dominick.
Publication: Newport, RI : Newport Classic, p1996.

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Status	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Audio	Use in library	*LDC 17791 (F)	Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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1 sound disc : digital; 4 3/4 in.

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The 1st work is an opera in one act; text freely adapted from "On the harmfulness of tobacco" by Anton Chekhov and "The birds of America" by J.J. Audubon. The 2nd work is a song cycle, originally with piano acc.; texts by Shakespeare, Samuel Daniel, Thomas Nash, Henry Constable, and Ben Jonson.
"World premiere recording"--Program notes.
Compact disc.
Durations: 42:00; 16:00.
Biographical notes on the composer, opera libretto, and song texts ([12] p. : ports.) inserted in container.

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*LDC 17791 (F)

OCLC

36523238

Author

Argento, Dominick.

Title

A water bird talk [sound recording] ; Six Elizabethan songs / Dominick Argento.

Imprint

Newport, RI : Newport Classic, p1996.

Playing Time

004200 001600

Performer

Vern Sutton (1st work), Frederick Urrey (2nd work), tenors ; Manhattan Chamber Orchestra ; Richard Auldon Clark, conductor.

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Sutton, Vern. voc

Urrey, Frederick. voc

Clark, Richard Auldon. Conductor

Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904. O vrede tabaka.

Audubon, John James, 1785-1851. Birds of America.

Argento, Dominick. Elizabethan songs; arranged.

Manhattan Chamber Orchestra. Performer

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Six Elizabethan songs.

6 Elizabethan songs.

Elizabethan songs.

Publisher No.

Newport Classic NPD 85602

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*LDC 17791 (F) Texts and notes on file.