Name
Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950 (Author)
Ussachevsky, Vladimir, 1911-1990 (Composer)
Luening, Otto, 1900-1996 (Composer)
Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center
Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center Collection
Title
Methuselah
Collection Name
Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center Collection
Subjects
English drama
Format
sound recordings
Genre
Verse drama; Excerpts
Origin Information
1958?
Date
[between 1958 and 2014]
Note (Funding)
Digitization funded (in part) by a grant from the GRAMMY Museum®
Note
Digitized by Media Preserve, Cranberry Township, Pa., 2019.
Files generated from digitization of audiotape reels: Preservation Master file - Broadcast WAV (96 kHz, 24 bit); Service copy - Broadcast WAV (44.1 kHz, 16 bit)
Streaming audio access is provided via encoded files created from the master archival audio files.
Contains several reiterations of a passage of spoken dialogue from the play, Back to Methuselah, by Shaw, a production for which Luening and Ussachevsky wrote incidental music in 1958
The passage recorded begins: "Of life only is there no end ..."
Duration: 2:48
Language
English
Library Location
Gabe M. Wiener Music & Arts Library, Columbia University
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Catalog Record
14635703
Digital Project
cpemc
Persistent URL
https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-ztjv-6c70