Moby Dick : cantata for male chorus, soloists and orchestra
- Title
- Moby Dick : cantata for male chorus, soloists and orchestra / music by Bernard Herrmann ; text selected and arranged from the novel by Herman Melville by W. Clark Harrington.
- Published by
- 1940.
- Author
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Status | Format | Access | Call number | Item location |
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Status Available by appointment at Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound. | FormatAudio | AccessUse in library | Call number*LDC 42823 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound |
Details
- Additional authors
- Description
- 1 audio disc : digital, mono; 4 3/4 in.
- Subject
- Call number
- *LDC 42823
- Note
- Title supplied by cataloger from the announcement.
- Access (note)
- Access to original item restricted.
- Performer (note)
- Robert Weede (Ahab) ; William Hain (Ishmael) ; William Horne (Starbuck) ; Philip Reep, Gean Greenwell (sailors).
- Author
- Herrmann, Bernard, 1911-1975, composer.
- Title
- Moby Dick : cantata for male chorus, soloists and orchestra / music by Bernard Herrmann ; text selected and arranged from the novel by Herman Melville by W. Clark Harrington.
- Production
- 1940.
- Playing time
- 004400
- Type of content
- performed music
- Type of medium
- audio
- Type of carrier
- audio disc
- Cast
- Robert Weede (Ahab) ; William Hain (Ishmael) ; William Horne (Starbuck) ; Philip Reep, Gean Greenwell (sailors).
- Performer
- Male chorus of the Westminster Choir ; John Finley Williamson, choir conductor ; New York Philharmonic Orchestra ; John Barbirolli, conductor.
- Event
- Broadcast on WCBS radio in NYC 1940 April 14.
- Access
- Access to original item restricted.
- Local note
- Service CD (1 audio disc : digital, mono ; 4 3/4 in.) copied from preservation master.
- Preservation master (1 audiotape reel : analog, 7 1/2 ips., 2 track mono ; 10 in.) in *LT-10 5463.
- Archival originals (2 audio discs : analog, 33 rpm, mono ; 16 in.) in *LJ-16 3151-3152.
- Connect to:
- Added author
- Harrington, W. Clark, librettist.
- Barbirolli, John, 1899-1970, conductor.
- Williamson, John Finley, 1887-1964, conductor.
- Weede, Robert, performer.
- Hain, William, performer.
- Reep, Philip, performer.
- Greenwell, Gean, performer.
- Horne, William, 1913-1983, performer.
- Libretto based on (work): Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. Moby Dick.
- New York Philharmonic, performer.
- Westminster Choir, performer.
- WCBS (Radio station : New York, N.Y.)
- Research call number
- *LDC 42823
- *LT-10 5463
- *LT-J 3151-3152