Research Catalog

Title

Sudden sunsets : Benson AIDS series.

Publication

• [New York, N.Y.] : Downtown Music Productions, [2006]
• ℗2006

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Additional Authors

• Stern-Wolfe, Mimi
• Steyermark, Alex
• Young, Sarah (Musician).
• Chesley, Robert, 1943-1990.
• DeBlasio, Chris
• Hampton, Calvin
• Savage, Robert, 1951-1993.
• Seyfrit, Michael
• Husband, Deolus W., 1959-1989.
• Gannon, Lee
• Oldham, Kevin, 1960-1993.
• Turner, William, 1952-1987.
• Schaffner, Nicholas, 1953-1991.
• Downtown Music Productions, performer, audio producer
• Benson AIDS Series

Description

1 audio disc : digital, CD audio, stereo; 4 3/4 in.

Alternative Title

• Benson AIDS series
• Highlights of the Benson AIDS Series

Subject

• Songs with piano
• Songs with instrumental ensemble
• Songs (Medium voice) with psaltery
• Oboe and piano music
• Quintets (Piano, clarinet, flute, violin, cello)
• AIDS (Disease) > Songs and music
• AIDS (Disease)

Genre/Form

• Songs and music.
• Songs.
• Song cycles.
• Musical settings.
• Excerpts.
• Chamber music.
• Cantatas.
• Live sound recordings.

Note

• Chiefly for singer and piano; Dear Sarah for singer and psaltery; I will be your mouth now and Journey's end for singer with instrumental ensemble; Sudden sunsets for quintet (violin, flute, clarinet, cello and piano); Bill for oboe and piano.
• "This CD recreates through various archival recordings highlights from a special Benson AIDS Series concert, Sudden sunsets, given at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall on June 14, 1995"--Container insert.
• Title from disc label.
• Program notes, biographical sketches of creators and performers, and lyrics in English (20 unnumbered pages : portraits) inserted in container.

Credits (note)

• Produced by Mimi Stern-Wolfe and Downtown Music Productions ; recording engineer, Alex Steyermark.

Language (note)

• Sung in English.

Contents

Dear Sarah : mezzo, psaltery / Sarah Young ; from a letter by Jimmy Sindoni (3:34) -- Nobody knows this little rose / Robert Chesley ; Emily Dickinson (1:26) -- Autumn : counter-tenor, piano / Robert Chesley ; Walter de la Mare (2:15) -- All the way through evening : baritone, piano / Chris DeBlasio ; Perry Brass (13:46) -- I will be your mouth now : from cantata Live or die : mezzo-soprano, flute, clarinet, horn, double bass / Calvin Hampton (7:34) -- Sudden sunsets : violin, flute, clarinet, cello, piano. Day shift ; Night shift / Robert Savage (17:13) -- Bill : from Eight love poems : oboe, piano / Michael Seyfrit (2:03) -- Here are my black clothes : soprano, piano / Deolus Husband ; Louise Glück (3:52) -- Butcher : from song cycle Villagers : soprano, piano / Chris DeBlasio ; Ilsa Gilbert (4:25) -- Echo : mezzo-soprano, piano / Lee Gannon ; Christina Rossetti (5:11) -- Not even if I try : baritone, piano / Kevin Oldham (4:33) -- Roundeau redoublé : singer, piano / William Turner ; Dorothy Parker (3:06) -- Journey's end : singer, violin, flute, clarinet, cello / Nicholas Schaffner ; arr. by Nicholas Scarim (4:36).

Call Number

*LDC 54161

LCCN

• 2021616612
• 702987025723

OCLC

123567866

Title

Sudden sunsets : Benson AIDS series.

Publisher

[New York, N.Y.] : Downtown Music Productions, [2006]

Copyright Date

℗2006

Type of Content

performed music

Type of Medium

audio

Type of Carrier

audio disc

Physical Medium

4 3/4 in.

Digital File Characteristics

audio file

CD audio

Performer

Downtown Chamber & Opera Players (Mimi Stern-Wolfe, conductor, piano ; Sarah Young, mezzo soprano, psaltery ; Marshall Coid, counter-tenor, violin ; Gilles Denizot, heldentenor ; Lisa Sokolov, vocalist ; Veronica Burke, soprano ; Richard Barone, vocalist, guitar ; David Hopkins, clarinet ; Andrew Bolotowsky, flute ; Charles Tomlinson, double bass ; Matthew Sullivan, oboe ; Allison Sniffin, horn ; Dennis Godburn, bassoon ; Boris Raiskin, cello ; Allen Moverman, piano).

Credits

Produced by Mimi Stern-Wolfe and Downtown Music Productions ; recording engineer, Alex Steyermark.

Event

Recorded live June 14, 1995 Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall.

Language

Sung in English.

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Added Author

Stern-Wolfe, Mimi, audio producer, instrumentalist, conductor.

Steyermark, Alex, recording engineer.

Container of (work): Young, Sarah (Musician). Dear Sarah.

Container of (work): Chesley, Robert, 1943-1990. Nobody knows this little rose.

Container of (work): Chesley, Robert, 1943-1990. Autumn.

Container of (work): DeBlasio, Chris. All the way through evening.

Container of (work): Hampton, Calvin. Live or die. I will be your mouth now.

Container of (work): Savage, Robert, 1951-1993. Sudden sunsets.

Container of (work): Seyfrit, Michael. Love poems. Bill.

Container of (work): Husband, Deolus W., 1959-1989. Poems of Louise Glück. Here are my black clothes.

Container of (work): DeBlasio, Chris. Villagers. Butcher.

Container of (work): Gannon, Lee. Echo.

Container of (work): Oldham, Kevin, 1960-1993. Not even if I try.

Container of (work): Turner, William, 1952-1987. Rondeau redoublé.

Container of (expression): Schaffner, Nicholas, 1953-1991. Magical kingdoms. Journey's end; arranged.

Downtown Music Productions, performer, audio producer.

Benson AIDS Series.

Other Standard Identifier

702987025723

Research Call Number

*LDC 54161 Notes (texts) on file