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Hermit songs

Title
Hermit songs / Barber. String quartet, no. 1 / Haieff.
Author
Barber, Samuel, 1910-1981.
Publication
[New York] : Columbia, [1955]

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Additional Authors
  • Price, Leontyne
  • Barber, Samuel, 1910-1981
  • Haieff, Alexei, 1914-1994.
  • Library of Congress. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation.
  • Juilliard String Quartet, performer. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf
Description
1 audio disc : analog, 33 1/3 rpm, mono; 12 in.
Series Statement
Modern American music series
Uniform Title
Modern American music series.
Subjects
Note
  • First side commissioned by the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation in the Library of Congress and first performed there by the same artists, Oct. 30, 1953; second side commissioned by the Ojai Festival ltd., through the Huntington Hartford Foundation, in 1949.
  • Recorded under the supervision of the composer.
  • Program notes and texts on container.
Contents
At Saint Patrick\u0027s purgatory -- Church bell at night -- Saint Ita\u0027s vision -- The heavenly banquet -- The crucifixion -- Sea-snatch -- Promiscuity -- The monk and his cat -- The praises of God -- The desire for hermitage.
LCCN
r 55000450
OCLC
  • ocm23068810
  • SCSB-3250354
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries