[Methuselah] : [selected passages]
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- 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] : [selected passages]
- Other Titles
- Copies of words [illegible]
- Collection Name
- Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center Collection
- Subjects
- English drama
- Format
- sound recordings
- Genre
- Verse drama; Excerpts
- Date
- [1958?]
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (audio file (4 min., 40 sec.))
- 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 passages of spoken dialogue from the play, Back to Methuselah, by Shaw, a production for which Luening and Ussachevsky wrote incidental music in 1958; includes very brief musical passage torward the end of the file.
- The first passage recorded begins: "Of life only is there no end ..."
- Duration: 4:40
- Item from 2 boxes of loose audiotape reels marked: VU Methuselah
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Gabe M. Wiener Music & Arts Library, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content - Catalog Record
- 14636096
- Digital Project
- cpemc
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-jy3c-0m55