Songs of America : on home, love, nature, and death.

Author/creator DeGaetani, Jan performer.
Format Audio (CD)
Publication InfoNew York, N.Y. : Elektra/Nonesuch, ℗1988.
Description1 audio disc (74 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Subjects

Other author/creatorKalish, Gilbert, performer.
Included WorkFoster, Stephen Collins, 1826-1864. Beautiful child of song.
Included WorkCarter, Elliott, 1908-2012. Poems of Robert Frost.
Included WorkCadman, Charles Wakefield, 1881-1946. American Indian songs. Moon drops low.
Included WorkSeeger, Ruth Crawford, 1901-1953. Songs (1929)
Included WorkBabbitt, Milton, 1916-2011. Widow's lament in springtime.
Included WorkBenson, Warren, 1924-2005. Solitary songs. American primitive.
Included WorkCrumb, George. Sleeper.
Included WorkFine, Irving, 1914-1962. Mutability. My father.
Included WorkJacobs-Bond, Carrie, 1862-1946. Nothin' but love.
Included WorkJacobs-Bond, Carrie, 1862-1946. Songs as unpretentious as the wild rose (1901). I love you truly.
Included WorkJacobs-Bond, Carrie, 1862-1946. Small songs as unpretentious as the wild rose. Her greatest charm.
Included WorkKagen, Sergius Junk man.
Included WorkDavidovsky, Mario, 1934-2019 Lost.
Included WorkCage, John. Songs (1938). Little four paws.
Included WorkSchuman, William, 1910-1992. Time to the old. Dozing on the lawn.
Included WorkIves, Charles, 1874-1954 She is not fair to outward view.
Included WorkIves, Charles, 1874-1954 All-enduring.
Included WorkClarke, Rebecca, 1886-1979 Lethe.
Included WorkRorem, Ned, 1923-2022. Poems of love and the rain. Interlude
Included WorkAdler, Samuel, 1928- Time, you old gypsy man.
Included WorkWalden, Stanley. Three ladies. Grandma.
Included WorkKernis, Aaron Jay. Stein times seven. No. 6.
Included WorkBolcom, William. Cabaret songs (1978). Waitin.
Included WorkCopland, Aaron, 1900-1990. Poems of Emily Dickinson. There came a wind like a bugle.
Included WorkIves, Charles, 1874-1954 Sunrise.
Contents Beautiful child of song / Stephen Foster -- Dust of snow ; The rose family : [both] from Three poems by Robert Frost / Elliott Carter -- The moon drops low : from Four American Indian songs / Charles Wakefield Cadman -- Home thoughts ; White moon ; Joy / Ruth Crawford (Seeger) -- The widow's lament in springtime / Milton Babbitt -- American primitive : from Three solitary songs / Warren Benson -- The sleeper / George Crumb -- My father : from Mutability / Irving Fine -- Nothin' but love ; I love you truly ; Her greatest charm / Carrie Jacobs-Bond -- The junk man / Sergius Kagen -- Lost / Mario Davidovsky.
Contents (cont) -- Little four paws : from Five songs for contralto / John Cage -- Dozing on the lawn : from Time to the old / William Schuman -- Song : (She is not fair) ; The all-enduring / Charles Ives -- Lethe / Rebecca Clarke - - Interlude : from Poems of love and the rain / Ned Rorem -- Time, you old gypsy man / Samuel Adler -- Grandma (Millie) : from Suite, Three ladies / Stanley Walden -- Stein x seven. No. 6 / Aaron Jay Kernis -- Waitin : from Cabaret songs / William Bolcom -- There came a wind like a bugle : from Twelve poems of Emily Dickinson / Aaron Copland -- Sunrise : for voice, violin, and piano / Charles Ives (with Joyce Robbins, violin).
General noteElektra/Nonesuch: 79178-2 (on container: 9 79178-2).
General note"Music by 21 American composers, to words by some of America's outstanding poets, written ... from 1860 to the 1980s"--Program notes, p. 5.
General noteProgram notes, durations, and texts (19 p. : ill.) inserted in container.
General noteCompact disc; digital recording.
Performer Jan DeGaetani, mezzo-soprano ; Gilbert Kalish, piano.
Date/time/place of a event noteRecorded Dec. 21-23, 1987 at the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York.
Publisher number79178-2 Elektra/Nonesuch
Publisher number9 79178.2 Elektra/Nonesuch

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