Gilgamesh

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Name: Berezowsky, Nicolai, 1900-1953; McKinley, Andrew (Performer); Moll, Mariquita, 1923-2000; Leonards, Francis (Performer); Watson, Chester (Performer); Anderson, Adolph (Performer); Ditson Fund Recordings Archive; Juilliard Chorus (Performer); Juilliard Orchestra (Performer)
Title: Gilgamesh
Collection Name: Ditson Fund Recordings Archive
Subjects: Cantatas, Secular; Live sound recordings; Gilgamesh
Format: music; sound recordings
Genre: Musical settings
Date: May 17, 1947
Physical Description: 1 online resource
Note (Funding): Grammy Foundation Archiving & Preservation Grant
Note: Cantata for narrator, solo voices, mixed chorus and orchestra.; Title from CD-ROM container-insert as transcribed from the original item.; Text freely adapted by Robert Shaw and Alice Berezowsky from the rendering by William Ellery Leonard of the Babylonian epic"--T.p. of published vocal score (Weaner-Levant, c1947); Consists of 11 files: 88, 88, 70, 76, 85, 90, 81, 79, 93 80, 92 mb.; Originally recorded under the auspices of The Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University.; Forms part of: Ditson Fund Recordings Archive.; Digitization the original sound recording (6 sound discs : analog, mono. ; 12 in.); File numbers: DIT.008.01a-b; DIT.008.02a-b; DIT.008.03a-b; DIT.008.04a-b; DIT.008.05a-b; DIT.008.06a.; Related CD identification no.: 617521127185 (CD-ROM 1), 617521127187 (CD-ROM 2), 617521127188 (CD-ROM 3), 617521127189 (CD-ROM 4), 617521127190 (CD-ROM 5); 617521127193 (CD-ROM 6).; Numbers on original items: SB452 G36 1-2; SB452 G36 3-4; SB452 G36 5-6; SB452 G36 7-8; SB452 G36 9-10; SB452 G36 11; additional no.: serial no. 134.; Recorded in live performance: May 17, 1947, McMillin Theatre, Columbia University. First performance of the work; performed as part of the 3rd Annual Festival of Contemporary American Music presented by the Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University
Note (Performers): Andrew McKinley, Gilgamesh ; Mariquita Moll, Ishtar ; Francis Leonards, Siduri ; Chester Watson, Forefather ; Adolph Anderson, narrator ; Juilliard School Chorus and Orchestra.
Language: English
Contents: File 1. No. 1-No. 3 (DIT.008.01a) ; No. 4-No. 6 (beginning) (DIT.008.01b) -- File 2. No. 6 (conclusion)-No. 7 (DIT.008.02a) ; No. 7A-No. 8 (beginning) (DIT.008.02b) -- File 3. No. 8 (conclusion)-No. 10 (beginning) (DIT.008.03a) ; No. 10 (conclusion)-No. 12 (beginning) (DIT.008.03b) -- File 4. No. 12 (beginning)-No. 13A (DIT.008.04a) ; No. 14-No.15 (beginning) (DIT.008.04b) -- File 5. No. 15 (conclusion)-No. 16 (beginning) (DIT.008.05a) ; No. 16 (conclusion)-No. 17 (beginning) (DIT.008.05b) -- File 6. No. 17 (conclusion) ; Broadcast announcements by Herbert Newman for the Municipal Broadcast System
Library Location: Gabe M. Wiener Music & Arts Library, Columbia University
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Catalog Record: 14412975
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Persistent URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-wf12-y823