Research Catalog

Title

Night waltz : the music of Paul Bowles : a film by Owsley Brown / produced by Brown Burke Productions ; director, Owsley Brown III ; featuring music by the EOS Orchestra.

Publication

[San Francisco?] : Owsley Brown Presents : Distributed exclusively by Zeitgeist Video, [2002], ©1999.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Ramey, Phillip.
• Brown, Owsley, III.
• Bowles, Paul, 1910-1999.
• Brown Burke Productions.
• Zeitgeist Films.

Description

1 videodisc (77 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

Paul Bowles and Phillip Ramey discuss and comment on Bowles\u0027 music. Several of Bowles\u0027 works are performed accompanied by photo montages.

Alternative Title

Music of Paul Bowles

Subjects

• Bowles, Paul, 1910-1999
• Composers > United States
• Documentary films
• Americans > Morocco

Note

• Extra features: Rudy Burkhardt film with Paul Bowles (1936); interview with Jonathan Sheffer of the EOS Orchestra; music archive information.

Credits (note)

• Cinematographers, David John Golia ... [et al.] ; editor, Nathaniel Dorsky ; on-line editor, Ed Rudolph ; music consultant, Phillip Ramey.

System Details (note)

• DVD.

Contents

Opening titles: Suite for small orchestra. Pastorale (EOS Orchestra) -- Introduction: Call to prayer ; Music of Morocco. Qsida midh ; The wind remains. Setting the stage (EOS Orchestra) -- Discussion: Sonata for flute and piano. Third movement (selections) (Dietmar Wiesner, flute ; Hermann Kretzschmar, piano) -- New York City: Sonata for oboe and clarinet (Catherine Milliken, oboe ; Carol Robinson, clarinet) -- Stairwell: Concerto for two pianos, winds and percussion. Scherzo (HCD Ensemble ; Hermann Kretzschmar, Olga Balakleets, piano) -- Paris: Six preludes for piano. Prelude no. 6 (Bennett Lerner, piano) ; Four miniatures for piano. Portrait of Bernard Suares ; Portrait of KMC ; Sarabande (Irene Herrmann, piano) ; Six preludes for piano. Prelude no. 1 (Bennett Lerner, piano) -- Oaxaca: Latin American pieces for piano. Orosi (Ramon Salvatore, piano) -- Pastorela. Pieza tranquila (EOS Orchestra) -- Songs: Three ; Mes de Mayo (Brian Staufenbiel, tenor ; Irene Herrmann, piano) -- Times Square neon: Music for a farce. No. 6, Allegro (HCD Ensemble) -- Tangier night: Night waltz : for two pianos (Hermann Kretzschmar, Olga Balakleets, piano) -- Lullaby (Karim Jihad Achouatte, Moroccan singer -- End credits: Pastorela. El Indio ; The wind remains. The mask & the stenographer (selections) (EOS Orchestra) ; Balada amarilla (Brian Staufenbiel, tenor ; Irene Herrmann, piano).

LCCN

795975103831

OCLC

• ocm53085685
• 53085685
• SCSB-5494451

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries