Damnation de Faust. Overture / Hector Berlioz -- The Bartered Bride. Selections / Bedrich Smetena -- Traviata. Selections / Giuseppe Verdi -- Martha. Selections / Friedrich von Flotow.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
3 recordings
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
This is a live WNYC broadcast recording of Rosalyn Tureck's harpsichord and piano recital, which is the second concert of the Musica Sacra's Basically Bach Festival at Avery Fisher Hall (1979 was the first year of the festival). WNYC reporter and host Andrew Berger offers background information on each of the featured pieces, and talks about the upcoming events of the Basically Bach Festival. During intermission a pre-recorded interview of Rosalyn Tureck was played, and Berger read from Tureck's own program notes.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
3 recordings
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
This is a live WNYC broadcast recording of Rosalyn Tureck's harpsichord and piano recital, which is the second concert of the Musica Sacra's Basically Bach Festival at Avery Fisher Hall (1979 was the first year of the festival). WNYC reporter and host Andrew Berger offers background information on each of the featured pieces, and talks about the upcoming events of the Basically Bach Festival. During intermission a pre-recorded interview of Rosalyn Tureck was played, and Berger read from Tureck's own program notes.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
3 recordings
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Les contes d'Hoffmann. Overture / Jacques Offenbach -- Entführung aus dem Serail. Selections / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Boris Godunov. Selections / Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky -- Simon Boccanegra. Selections / Giuseppe Verdi.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
4 recordings
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. Vorspiel (Act 1) / Richard Wagner -- Boris Godunov. Selections / Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky -- Samson et Dalila. Selections / Camille Saint-Saëns -- Love for three oranges. Selections / Sergei Prokofiev.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
3 recordings
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Schöne Galathée. Ouvertüre / Franz von Suppe -- Fledermaus. Selections / Johann Strauss -- Show boat. Selections / Jerome Kern -- Gondoliers. Selections / Sir Arthur Sullivan.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
3 recordings
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Rigoletto. Selections / Giuseppe Verdi -- Aïda. Selections / Giuseppe Verdi -- Fidelio (1814). Selections / Ludwig van Beethoven -- Pêcheurs de perles. Selections / Georges Bizet.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
3 recordings
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Amore brujo. Overture / Manuel de Falla -- Giulio Cesare. Selections / George Frideric Handel -- Hérodiade. Selections / Jules Massenet -- Così fan tutte. Selections / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
3 recordings
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Transcripts of the radio program presented on radio station WQXR, New York. From Dec. 7, 1941 to Sept. 26, 1943, the program was called Music for the theatre.
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Other
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Musical selection [Very soft shoes, from musical Once upon a mattress / lyrics by Marshall Barer ; music by Mary Rodgers] (2:40) -- Announcement (0:09) -- Musical selection [In my own lifetime, from musical The Rothschilds / lyrics by Sheldon Harnick ; music by Jerry Bock] (2:25) -- Announcement (0:48) -- Musical selection (3:04) -- Announcement (0: 34) -- Excerpts from the interview with Cy Coleman. He talks about his first experience composing music for the film Father Goose (1964) (3:50) -- Pass me by [from the film Father Goose / lyrics by Carolyn Leigh ; music by Cy Coleman] (2:00) -- Announcement (0:19) -- Musical selection, 1st song: Money isn't ev'rything, from musical Allegro / music by Richard Rogers ; lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein, II ; 2nd song: What I did for love, from musical Chorus line (first line of text: Kiss today goodbye) / music by Marvin Hamlisch ; lyric by Edward Kleban (Priscilla Lopez, singer)] (7:16) -- Announcement (1:08) -- I'd rather be a fairy than a troll (3:32) -- Announcement (0:26) -- I'll try your way, from musical Fortune (2:27) -- Announcement (0:34)
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Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
David Garland plays a compilation tape of various unidentified film music tracks composed by Ennio Morricone in the 1970s: Revolver (1972), Tre donne (Three women, 1971), Kill the fatted calf and eat it (1970), Veruschka (1971), Spazmo (1974), Forza G (1971) and other unidentified films. According to Garland, this is his "favorite driving tape". The tape was compiled for Garland by longtime listener Peter Muller. [Side A] (starts at 3:36) ; Side B (starts at 34:10)
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Sounds
Extent:
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
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Local 11 represents NBC on a vertical basis and includes radio, television and satellite technicians, engineers, desk assistants, news writers, maintenance workers and all other employees. Records also cover ABC. (In Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives.)
Irmagard Seefried, soprano ; George London, bass-baritone ; Westminster Choir ; John Finley Williamson, choir director ; New York Philharmonic Orchestra ; Bruno Walter, conductor.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center