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Songs of Ned Rorem

Title
Songs of Ned Rorem [sound recording].
Author
Rorem, Ned, 1923-
Publication
[U.S.] : Columbia, [1964]

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Additional Authors
  • Curtin, Phyllis.
  • D'Angelo, Gianna.
  • Sarfaty, Regina.
  • Bressler, Charles.
  • Gramm, Donald.
  • Rorem, Ned, 1923-
Description
1 sound disc : analog, 33 1/3 rpm; 12 in.
Series Statement
Masterworks
Uniform Title
Songs. Selections
Alternative Title
Songs.
Subjects
Note
  • In part excerpts from song cycles.
  • Sung in English; words by various poets.
  • Biographical and program notes by William Flanagan on container; texts of the songs ([2] p.) inserted.
  • Also issued in stereo.: MS 6561.
Contents
Poems by Robert Herrick, Ben Jonson, John Dryden and Orlando Gibbons (Song for a girl ; To the willow tree ; Echo's song ; Upon Julia's clothes ; The silver swan) (9:02) -- Three psalms (134, 148, 150) (7:30) -- Poems by Paul Goodman and Theodore Roethke (The lordly Hudson ; Snake ; Rain in spring ; Root cellar ; Sally's smile ; Such beauty as hurts to behold ; My Papa's waltz) (11;40) -- Poems by Robert Hillyer, Gertrude Stein, Howard Moss and Elizabeth Bishop (Early in the morning ; I am Rose ; See how they love me ; Visits to Saint Elizabeths) (7:45) -- Three medieval poems (anon. c. 1500) (A Christmas carol ; The nightingale ; The call) (3:53) -- Poems by Gerald Manley Hopkins and Walt Whitman (Spring and fall ; Spring ; To you ; Youth, day, old age and night ; O you whom I often and silently come) (6:56) -- Poems by Robert Browning, Padriac Pearse, Edmund Spenser and R.L. Stevenson (Pippa's song ; Lullaby of the woman of the mountain ; What if some little pain ; In a gondola ; Requiem) (10:00).
OCLC
  • ocm05938531
  • 5938531
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library