Composers' Forum concert, 1957 October 5
Composers' Forum concert, 1957 October 5
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- Name
- Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939 (Author)
- Portnoy, Donald (Instrumentalist)
- Engberg, Jon E (Instrumentalist)
- Akers, Gene (Instrumentalist)
- Novak, Lionel (Instrumentalist)
- Renzi, Dorothy (Singer)
- Chelsi, Lawrence (Singer)
- Hebert, Bliss (Instrumentalist)
- Luening, Otto, 1900-1996 (Moderator)
- Ballou, Esther Williamson, 1915-1973
- Edmunds, John, 1913-1986
- Composers Forum Concerts Collection
- Title
- Composers' Forum concert, 1957 October 5
- Collection Name
- Composers Forum Concerts Collection
- Subjects
- Piano trios; Sonatas (Piano); Songs (High voice) with piano; Songs (Medium voice) with piano; Song cycles; Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939
- Format
- music; sound recordings
- Genre
- Chamber music; Sonatas; Art music; Songs; Song cycles; Musical settings; Excerpts; Live sound recordings
- Date
- 1957
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (3 sound files) : WAV
- Note (Funding)
- Digitization funded by the Association for Recorded Sound Collections
- Note
- Concert of vocal and instrumental compositions by Esther Williamson Ballou and John Edmunds, including audience discussion with the composers; moderator, Otto Luening.
- Description derived from original container and the concert program; the order of works on the audio file may differ from that given in the concert program.
- File name: RBML_ComposersForum_19571005_8540337.
- Digitized by George Blood Audio, Philadelphia, 2011.
- Service copy (44.1 kHz, 16 bit) of sound file derived from a digital preservation master digitized at 96 kHz, 24 bit.
- Recorded at McMillin Theater, Columbia University
- Language
- English
- Contents
- file 01. Trio for violin, cello and piano (1955) (Donald Portnoy, violin ; Jon Engberg, cello ; Gene Akers, piano) ; Sonata for piano (1954) (Lionel Novak, piano) / Esther Williamson Ballou -- file 02. Songs. 1. The ballad of Mary (1936) ; 2. Dew in April (1936) ; 3. O, Death rock me to sleep (1939) ; 4. The Countess Cathleen enters Paradise (Yeats) (1936) ; 5. The curlew (Yeats) (1936). Seven songs from Byzantium : a cycle of twelve songs to poems by W.B. Yeats (1952-53). 1. Crazy Jane and the Bishop ; 2. The Squirrell ; 3. Wisdom ; 4. The second coming ; 5. The Delphic Oracle upon Plotinus ; 6. Byzantium ; 7. Sailing to Byzantium (Dorothy Renzi, sorpano ; Lawrence Chelsi, baritone ; Bliss Hebert, piano) / John Edmunds -- file 03. Discussion with Esther Williamson Ballou and John Edmunds
- Library Location
- Gabe M. Wiener Music & Arts Library, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content - Catalog Record
- 8540337
- Part
- Trio, piano, violin, cello; Sonatas, piano; Songs; Byzantium
- Also In
- Time-Based Media
- Composers Forum Concerts Collection
- Time-Based Media
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-kg0q-t395