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Songs for the poets Works & process at the Guggenheim

Title: Songs for the poets [videorecording] : Works & process at the Guggenheim / [performance series producer, Mary Sharp Cronson].
Publication: 2005.

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1 videodisc (NTSC) (109 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

Martin Bookspan moderates a panel discussion with composers who have set poetry to their compositions. Bookspan talks with Jake Heggie about the process Heggie used to set the movement titled Simple, from his work Times of day, as a waltz. Heggie also talks about how he chose to create an opera from the book Dead Man Walking, as well as his association with Frederica von Stade. Bookspan talks with composer Gordon Getty about what drew him to the poetry of Emily Dickinson in his song cycle, The white election; his opera Plump Jack, based on Falstaff by William Shakespeare; and his purely instrumental compositions. Bookspan also talks with composer David Garner about what he looks for when he sets prose to music and about the poets, Annette von Droste-Hulshoff and Maya Angelou, whose works are performed in this program.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of Works & process at the Guggenheim, Mary Sharp Cronson, producer.

Series Statement

Works & process at the Guggenheim collection ; 267

Uniform Title

Works and process at the Guggenheim.

Subject

Genre/Form

Video.
Music.

Event (note)

Recorded as part of the Works & process performance series at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, on May 2, 2005.

Funding (note)

With support from The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation, digitization and DVD authoring of the Works & process at the Guggenheim video archive was done by StreamingCulture at the Graduate Center of The City University of New York.

Contents

Times of day. The minuet ; Simple ; The best time of the day / composer, Jake Heggie ; poetry, Raymond Carver ; mezzo-soprano, Zhen Cao ; violin, Dawn Harms ; cello, Matt Haimovitz ; piano, Jake Heggie -- Dead man walking. I am a mother / composer, Jake Heggie ; libretto, Terrence McNally ; mezzo-soprano, Frederica von Stade ; piano, Jake Heggie -- The deepest desire. The call ; Primary colors / composer, Jake Heggie ; text, Sister Helen Prejean ; mezzo-soprano, Frederica von Stade ; flute, Eugenia Zuckerman ; piano, Jake Heggie -- My true love hath my heart / composer, Jake Heggie ; poetry, Sir Philip Sidney ; soprano, Lisa Delan ; mezzo-soprano, Frederica von Stade ; cello, Matt Haimovitz ; piano, Jake Heggie -- The White Election : selections from the song cycle. I sing to use the waiting : major setting (vocalist, Zheng Cao) ; If she had been the mistletoe (vocalist, Zheng Cao) ; She bore it (vocalist, Lisa Delan) ; I taste liquor never brewed (vocalist, Lisa Delan) ; The first day's night had come (vocalist, Frederica von Stade) ; The going from a world we know (vocalist, Frederica von Stade) ; Beauty crowds me (vocalist, Zheng Cao) ; I sing to use the waiting : minor setting (vocalist, Lisa Delan) / composer, Gordon Getty ; poetry, Emily Dickinson ; piano, Kristin Pankonin -- The ballad of poor Peter (World premiere) ; Where is my lady (World premiere) / composer, Gordon Getty ; soprano, Lisa Delan ; piano, Kristin Pankonin -- Plump Jack. "Hostess" aria / composer, Gordon Getty ; libretto, Gordon Getty ; mezzo-soprano, Zheng Cao ; piano, Kristin Pankonin -- Annettes Lieder. Im Grase (In the meadow) ; Am turm (On the tower) ; Der Weiher (The weir) / composer, David Garner ; poetry, Annette von Droste-Hulshoff ; soprano, Lisa Delan ; cello, Matt Haimovitz ; piano, Kristin Pankonin -- Phenomenal woman. Call letters, Mrs. V. B. (vocalist, Frederica von Stade) ; The Gamut (vocalist, Zheng Cao) ; Phenomenal woman (vocalists, Lisa Delan, Zheng Cao, Frederica von Stade) ; piano, Kristin Pankonin.

Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-2911

OCLC

173151910

Title

Songs for the poets [videorecording] : Works & process at the Guggenheim / [performance series producer, Mary Sharp Cronson].

Imprint

2005.

Country of Producing Entity

United States.

Series

Works & process at the Guggenheim collection ; 267

Works and process at the Guggenheim.

Performer

Host, Mary Sharp Cronson.

Event

Recorded as part of the Works & process performance series at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, on May 2, 2005.

Funding

With support from The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation, digitization and DVD authoring of the Works & process at the Guggenheim video archive was done by StreamingCulture at the Graduate Center of The City University of New York.

Added Author

Cronson, Mary Sharp. Producer

Bookspan, Martin. Interviewer

Heggie, Jake, 1961- Interviewee

Heggie, Jake, 1961- Composer

Garner, David. Interviewee

Garner, David. Composer

Getty, Gordon. Interviewee

Getty, Gordon. Composer

Getty, Gordon. Librettist

Cao, Zheng (Soprano) Singer

Delan, Lisa. Singer

Haimovitz, Matt, 1970- Instrumentalist

Harms, Dawn. Instrumentalist

Pankonin, Kristin. Instrumentalist

Zukerman, Eugenia. Instrumentalist

Von Stade, Frederica. Singer

Carver, Raymond, 1938-1988. Author of dialog

McNally, Terrence. Author of dialog

Prejean, Helen. Dead man walking.

Sidney, Philip, 1554-1586. Author of dialog

Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886. Author of dialog

Droste-Hülshoff, Annette von, 1797-1848. Author of dialog

Angelou, Maya, author of dialogue.

Heggie, Jake, 1961- Some times of day.

Heggie, Jake, 1961- Deepest desire.

Heggie, Jake, 1961- My true love hath my heart.

Getty, Gordon. White election.

Getty, Gordon. Ballad of poor Peter.

Getty, Gordon. Where is my lady.

Getty, Gordon. Plump Jack.

Garner, David. Annettes Lieder.

Garner, David. Phenomenal woman.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

Research Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-2911

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