Martin Bookspan interviews American composer Stephen Albert. Albert discusses his life and career as a composer, and his passion to write music for the human voice. He also speaks about his work with the conductor of the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, Carlo Maria Giulini. The composer discusses each of the following works, excerpts of which are then played during the interview: Supernatural songs (for soprano, piano, and chamber orchestra, words from W.B. Yeats' Supernatural songs) (1963), Leaves from the golden notebook (first movement), Winter songs (for tenor and orchestra), Wolf time (for soprano and orchestra with amplification, text from the Völuspá, the tenth century Icelandic edda) (1969), Bacchae (text extracted from Euripides ; translated by William Arrowsmith) (1968).
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Sounds
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1 recording
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New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
"In Stomp, the members of the Combine used music, scenes and film to talk about their lives and times. The group was predominately comprised of dropouts from various programs at the University of Texas, and the show explains in part their journey from college kids to hippies"
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Sounds
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1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Richard Tucker (Duke of Mantua) ; Adelaide Bishop (Gilda) ; Richard Meredith (Rigoletto) ; Ruth Slater (Maddalena) ; Robert Morton (Sparafucile) ; with featured dramatic players of Chicago Theatre of the Air ; Unidentified orchestra ; Henry Weber, conductor.
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Sounds
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1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Teresa Sterne, pianist. Introduction (0:35) -- Chaconne in D minor : arr. from Violin partita, no. 2, BWV 1004 / J.S. Bach ; arr. by Busoni (14:19) -- Intermezzo in E flat minor / Brahms (5:09) -- 2 preludes, op 34, no. 2 and 10 / Shostakovich (4:10) -- Mephisto waltz / Liszt ; arr. by Busoni (12:12).
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Sounds
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1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center