Research Catalog

Title

Gay American composers.

Publication

New York, NY : CRI, [1996]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Helps, Robert.
• Hoiby, Lee.
• Harrison, Lou, 1917-2003.
• Biscardi, Chester.
• Rorem, Ned, 1923-2022.
• Del Tredici, David.
• Maggio, Robert.
• Cummings, Conrad, 1948-
• Hibbard, William, 1939-1989.
• Hunt, Jerry, 1943-1993.
• DeBlasio, Chris.

Description

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

Subjects

• Electronic music
• Vocal duets with instrumental ensemble
• Songs (High voice) with piano
• String quartets
• Songs (Medium voice) with piano
• Piano music
• Trios (Clarinet, trombone, harp)
• Suling with gamelan
• Quartets (Flutes (2), cellos (2))
• Music by gay composers > United States

Note

• Previously released material (p1981-p1996).
• Compact disc.
• Program notes, principally by the composers, biographical notes, texts of the vocal works, and selected bibliography (23 p. : ports.) inserted in container.

Contents

Hommage à Rachmaninoff / Robert Helps (Helps, piano) (2:13) -- I was there : from Five songs on poems of Walt Whitman / Lee Hoiby (Peter Stewart, baritone ; Hoiby, piano) (3:03) -- From String quartet set. Variations (5:19) ; Estamp[i]e (3:58) / Lou Harrison (Kronos Quartet) -- Incitation to desire : tango / Chester Biscardi (Anthony de Mare, piano) (3:17) -- From The Nantucket songs. The dance (1:27) ; Nantucket (1:13) ; Go, lovely Rose (1:35) ; The dancer (1:50) / Ned Rorem (Phyllis Bryn-Julson, soprano ; Rorem, piano) -- Fantasy pieces / David Del Tredici (Del Tredici, piano) (9:28) -- Desire, movement : from Two quartets / Robert Maggio (Bart Feller, Kathleen Nester, flutes ; Fred Sherry, Jonathan Spitz, violoncellos ; Bradley Lubman, conductor) (7:28) -- In the department of love / Conrad Cummings (Cummings Ensemble [SBar, violin, violoncello, woodwinds, keyboard]) (3:59) -- Bass trombone, bass clarinet, harp / William Hibbard (Jon English, bass trombone ; Charles West, bass clarinet ; Motter Forman, harp ; Hibbard, conductor) (8:01) -- Transform (stream) : excerpt / Jerry Hunt (Hunt, voice and original instruments [electronic music]) (3:16) -- Serenade for Betty Freeman & Franco Assetto / Lou Harrison (Harrison, suling ; Gamelan Sekar Kembar) (5:48) -- Walt Whitman in 1989 / Chris DeBlasio (Michael Dash, baritone ; DeBlasio, piano) (3:40) -- Hommage à Fauré / Robert Helps (Helps, piano) (3:55).

LCCN

9043807212

OCLC

• ocm35047336
• 35047336
• SCSB-5530908

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries