Composers' Forum concert, 1955 November 19

This item is accessible in the reading room of the Gabe M. Wiener Music & Arts Library. Please make arrangements in advance of your visit. Contact music@library.columbia.edu.

Name:

Sorkin, Herbert (Instrumentalist); Ross, Margaret, 1926-2005 (Instrumentalist); Morgenstern, Marvin (Instrumentalist); Hersh, Ralph (Instrumentalist); Kouguell, Alexander (Instrumentalist); Davis, Eleanor (Singer); Pinkham, Daniel (Instrumentalist); Low, Edward (Instrumentalist); Brink, Robert (Instrumentalist); Chiasson, Claude Jean (Instrumentalist); Gusikoff, Michel (Instrumentalist); Wolfe, Paul, 1926- (Instrumentalist); Grossman, George (Violist) (Instrumentalist); Gusikoff, Isidore (Instrumentalist); Sklar, Philip (Instrumentalist); Luening, Otto, 1900-1996 (Moderator); Powell, Mel; Composers Forum Concerts Collection

Title:

Composers' Forum concert, 1955 November 19

Collection Name:

Composers Forum Concerts Collection.

Subjects:

Suites (Violin and harp); String quartets; Songs (Medium voice) with piano; Celesta and harpsichord music; Concertos (Violin and harpsichord with string orchestra)

Format:

music; sound recordings

Genre:

Suites; Songs; Concertos; Chamber music; Art music; Live sound recordings

Date:

1955

Physical Description:

1 online resource (3 audio files) : WAV

Note (Funding):

Digitization funded by the Association for Recorded Sound Collections

Note:

Concert of songs and instrumental compositions by Mel Powell and Daniel Pinkham, including audience discussion with the composers; moderator, Otto Luening.Recorded at McMillin Theater, Columbia University.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_19551119_7934892.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. Divertimento for violin and harp (1955) (Herbert Sorkin, violin ; Margaret Ross, harp) ; Quartet for strings (1955) (Herbert Sorkin, violin ; Marvin Morgenstern, violin ; Ralph Hersh, viola ; Alexander Kouguell, cello) / Mel Powell -- file 02. Songs. In youth is pleasure ; Music, thou soul of heaven ; Sing agreeably of love ; Slow, slow, fresh fount ; Elegy ; The falcon ; The partridge in a pear tree (Eleanor Davis, mezzo-soparno ; Daniel Pinkham, piano) ; Concerto, celesta and harpsichord (1955) (Edward Low, celesta ; Daniel Pinkham, harpsichord) ; Concertante for violin and harpsichord (1954) (Robert Brink, violin solo ; Claude Jean Chiasson, harpsichord ; Edward Low, celesta ; Michel Gusikoff, violin, Paul Wolfe, violin ; George Grossman, viola ; Isidor Gusikoff, cello ; Philip Sklar, double bass) / Daniel Pinkham -- file 03. Discussion with Mel Powell and Daniel Pinkham

Library Location:

Gabe M. Wiener Music & Arts Library, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content

Catalog Record:

7934892

Digital Project:

Time Based Media

Persistent URL:

https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-bttv-w537