Research Catalog

Title

Hamlet (Opera) [sound recording] : music highlights no. 2 / music by Carson Kievman.

Author

Kievman, Carson

Publication

Jul. 25, 1989.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
• New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theater. dnr

Found In

New York Shakespeare Festival records, 1954-1992.

Description

1 sound cassette : analog, stereo.

Summary

Cassette contains musical highlights (no. 2) of the opera Hamlet, commissioned by Joseph Papp and the New York Shakespeare Festival but not produced. All vocal parts and instrumentals were played and recorded by the composer.

Alternative Title

New York Shakespeare Festival recordings collection.

Subject

• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Musical settings
• Operas > New York (State) > New York

Note

• Information and music tracks taken from the Carson Kievman website at silvertone.princeton.edu.
• Separated from the New York Shakespeare Festival records; for papers, see the Billy Rose Theatre Collection, *T-Mss 1993-028; for sheet music and scores, see the Music Division, JPB 04-03.

Event (note)

• Recorded in New York on Jul. 25, 1989.

Source (note)

• The New York Shakespeare Festival and Gail Merrifield Papp;

Linking Entry (note)

• Forms part of: New York Shakespeare Festival recordings collection.

Contents

• [Side 1] Act 1, scene 3. Subject to his birth ; To thine ownself be true / (Laertes, Ophelia, Polonius) -- Act 1, scene 4. The king doth wake tonight / (Hamlet, Horatio, Marcellus) -- Act 1, scene 5. I am my father's spirit (Ghost, Hamlet) -- Act 2, scene 2. Brevity is the soul of wit / (Polonius, Hamlet) ; Bounded in a nutshell / (Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, Hamlet) -- Act 3, scene 2. I eat the air / (Hamlet, Ophelia, Company) -- Act 3, scene 3. Forgive me my fool murder / (Claudius) -- Act 4, scene 1. Mad as the sea / (Gertrude, Claudius) -- Act 4, scene 4. Go, Captain / (Fortinbras) -- Act 4. scene 5. Valentine's day / (Ophelia, Gertrude, Claudius) -- Act 4, scene 7. To cut his throat in the church / (Claudius, Laertes)
• [Side 2] Act 5, scene 1. Will he nill he / (Gravemaker, Clowns) -- Act 5, scene 2. The readiness is all / (Hamlet, Horatio, Osric, Lord) ; Good night, sweet prince / (Company)

Call Number

*LTC 6726

OCLC

311079834

Author

Kievman, Carson.

Title

Hamlet (Opera) [sound recording] : music highlights no. 2 / music by Carson Kievman.

Imprint

Jul. 25, 1989.

Performer

Carson Kievman, vocals and synthesizer.

Event

Recorded in New York on Jul. 25, 1989.

Linking Entry

Forms part of: New York Shakespeare Festival recordings collection.

Added Author

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Hamlet.

Kievman, Carson. Performer

Papp, Gail Merrifield. Donor

New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theater. Donor

Added Title

New York Shakespeare Festival recordings collection.

Found In:

New York Shakespeare Festival records, 1954-1992.

Research Call Number

*LTC 6726