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Songfest : a cycle of American poems for six singers and orchestra
- Title
- Songfest : a cycle of American poems for six singers and orchestra / Leonard Bernstein.
- Author
- Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990.
- Publication
- [U.S.A.] : Jalni Publications : Boosey & Hawkes, sole agent, 1988, ©1977.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Notated music | Request in advance | 76.7 B458 So5 1988 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 1 vocal score (82 pages); 31 cm
- Uniform Title
- Songfest. Vocal score
- Alternative Title
- Songfest.
- Subjects
- Note
- The third song is in Spanish.
- Duration: 40:30.
- Includes program notes by J. Gottlieb, and texts of the songs.
- Publisher's no.: VAB-89.
- Contents
- Opening hymn : To the poem / Frank O'Hara (3:20) -- The pennycandystore beyond the el / Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1:48) -- A Julia De Burgos / Julia de Burgos (3:27) -- To what you said-- / Walt Whitman (5:20) --I, too, sing America / Langston Hughes. Okay "Negroes" / June Jordan (3:45) --To my dear and loving husband / Anne Bradstreet (3:50) -- Storyette H.M. / Gertrude Stein (1:48) --If you can't eat you got to / e.e. cummings (2:16) --Music I heard with you / Conrad Aiken (3:24) -- Zizi's lament / Gregory Corso (2:27) -- Sonnet : What lips my lips have kissed / Edna St. Vincent Millay (5:17) -- Closing hymn : Israfel / Edgar Allan Poe (4:23).
- OCLC
- ocm21064265
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries