Composers' Forum concert, 1958 November 8

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Name: Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 (Author); Donne, John, 1572-1631 (Author); Swenson, May (Author); De Gaetani, Jan (Singer); Hurley, Laurel (Singer); Kagen, Sergius (Instrumentalist); Baron, Samuel, 1925-1997 (Instrumentalist); Glazer, David (Instrumentalist); Pollikoff, Max (Instrumentalist); Kouguell, Alexander (Instrumentalist); Beardslee, Bethany (Singer); Schuman, Henry (Oboist) (Instrumentalist); Buffington, Jim, 1922-1981 (Instrumentalist); Wolfe, Paul, 1926- (Instrumentalist); Zaratzian, Harry (Instrumentalist); Heifetz, Benar (Instrumentalist); Davenny, Ward (Instrumentalist); Taylor, Davidson, 1907-1979 (Moderator); Smith, Hale, 1925-2009; Composers Forum Concerts Collection
Title: Composers' Forum concert, 1958 November 8
Collection Name: Composers Forum Concerts Collection
Subjects: Songs (Medium voice) with piano; Songs (High voice) with instrumental ensemble; Sonatas (Cello and piano); Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886; Swenson, May; Donne, John, 1572-1631
Format: music; sound recordings
Genre: Art music; Songs; Musical settings; Sonatas; Chamber music; Live sound recordings
Date: 1958
Physical Description: 1 online resource (3 audio files) : WAV
Note (Funding): Digitization funded by the Association for Recorded Sound Collections

Note (Language): Vocal works sung in English.
Note: Concert of songs and instrumental works by Sergius Kagen and Hale Smith; moderator, Davidson Taylor.; Recorded at the Donnell Library, New York, N.Y.; The recording lacks four songs by Sergius Kagan listed in the concert program: O cool is the valley now; I'm nobody; April rain-song; Insomia.; 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_19581108_7934731.; 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.
Language: English
Contents: File 01. Two poems by Emily Dickinson (1954). I felt a funeral in my brain ; Hope ; [Selected songs]. The end of the world (1950) (A. MacLeish) ; Lullaby (1952) (J. Agee) ; Shadows (1957) (Rolf Humphries) ; She weeps over Rahoon (1951) (J. Joyce) ; Three poems by May Swenson (1957). Saw a grave upon a hill ; Body by my house ; I will lie down in Autumn (Jan Ruetz DeGaetani, mezzo-soprano ; Sergius Kagen, piano) ; The mob within the heart : eight poems by Emily Dickenson (1956). I felt a change in my mind ; From blank to blank ; Much madness is a divinist sense ; Pain has an element of blank ; Mine enemy is growing old ; Remorse is a memory awake ; The right to perish ; My God, what is a heart (Laurel Hurley, soprano ; Sam Baron, flute ; David Glazer, clarinet ; Max Pollikoff, violin ; Alexander Kouguell, cello ; Sergius Kagen, piano) / Sergius Kagen -- file 02. Two love songs (1958) (poems of John Donne). Confined love ; The computation (Bethany Beardslee, soprano ; Sam Baron, flute ; Henry Schuman, oboe ; David Glazer, clarinet ; Arthur Weisberg, bassoon ; James Buffington, horn ; Max Polikoff, violin ; Paul Wolfe, violin ; Harry Zaratzian, viola ; Alex Kouguell, cello) ; Sonata for cello and piano (1955) (Benar Heifetz, cello ; Ward Davenny, piano) / Hale Smith -- file 03. Discussion with Sergius Kagen and Dale Smith
Library Location: Gabe M. Wiener Music & Arts Library, Columbia University
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Catalog Record: 7934731
Part: Poems by Emily Dickinson; Poems by May Swenson; Mob within the heart; Songs; Love songs of John Donne; Sonatas, cello, piano
Also In: Time-Based Media; Composers Forum Concerts Collection; Time-Based Media
Persistent URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-rzg1-pk60