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A portrait album

Title: A portrait album [sound recording] / Virgil Thomson.
Author: Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989.
Publication: Los Angeles, Calif. : Nonesuch, p1982.

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Description

1 sound disc : analog, 33 1/3 rpm, stereo.; 12 in.

Uniform Title

Instrumental music. Selections

Alternative Title

Instrumental music.

Subjects

Note

Digital recording.

Event (note)

Recorded May and June 1981, at Columbia 30th St. Studio and RCA Studio A, New York.

Contents

Bugles and birds : a portrait of Pablo Picasso (2:03) ; With fife and drums : a portrait of Mina Curtis (2:07) ; An old song : a portrait of Carrie Stettheimer (1:44) ; Tango lullaby : a portrait of Mlle. Alvarez de Toledo (1:54) ; Solitude : a portrait of Lou Harrison (1:07) ; Barcarolle : portrait of Georges Hugnet (1:42) ; Alternations : a portrait of Maurice Grosser (1:44) ; In a bird cage : a portrait of Lise Deharme (1:00) ; Catalan waltz : a portrait of Ramon Senabre (1:29) ; Chromatic double harmonies : portrait of Sylvia Marlowe (2:27) ; Aaron Copland : Persistently pastoral (2:58) (Paul Jacobs, piano) -- Sonata no. 4 : Guggenheim jeune (Paul Jacobs, harpsichord) (6:39) -- Eight portraits : for violin alone. Ruth Smallens (3:52) ; Sauget, from life (:51) ; Señorita Juanita de Medina in the company of her mother 92:06) ; Miss Gertrude Stein as a young girl (1:30) ; Georges Hugnet, poet and man of letters (:59) ; Cliquet-Pleyel in F (1:43) ; Marthe-Marthine (1:54) ; Mrs. C.W.L. (2:00) (Joseph Silverstein, violin) -- Family portrait : for brass quintet. A fanfare : Robin Smith (:35) ; At fourteen : Annie Barnard (2:30) ; Digging : a portrait of Howard Rea (2:58) ; A scherzo : Priscilla Rea (2:34) ; Man of iron : willy Eisenhart (1:49) (American Brass Quintet).

Call Number

*LSRX 10123

LCCN

82761964

OCLC

8097892

Author

Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989.

Title

A portrait album [sound recording] / Virgil Thomson.

Imprint

Los Angeles, Calif. : Nonesuch, p1982.

Performer

Various performers.

Event

Recorded May and June 1981, at Columbia 30th St. Studio and RCA Studio A, New York.

Added Author

Jacobs, Paul. Performer

Silverstein, Joseph, 1932- Performer

Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989. Piano music. Selections.

Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989. Sonatas, piano, no. 4.

Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989. Portraits, violin.

Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989. Family portrait.

American Brass Quintet. Performer

Publisher No.

D-79024 Nonesuch

Research Call Number

*LSRX 10123 Program notes on container.

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