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The river ; The plow that broke the plains : the complete film scores

Title
The river ; The plow that broke the plains : the complete film scores / Virgil Thomson.
Author
Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989.
Publication
Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. : ESS.A.Y., [1989], ℗1989.

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Additional Authors
  • Kapp, Richard
  • Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989.
  • Philharmonia Virtuosi of New York, performer. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf
Description
1 audio disc : digital; 4 3/4 in.
Uniform Title
River
Alternative Title
  • River
  • Complete film scores
  • Plow that broke the plains.
Subject
  • Motion picture music
  • Orchestral music
Note
  • Compact disc.
  • Program notes by the conductor ([6] p., folded : ill.) inserted in container.
Event (note)
  • Recorded at the Performing Arts Center, Theatre C, State University of New York, Purchase, New York, May 9-10, 1989.
Contents
The river. The old South (0:39) ; Prologue (3:52) ; [Untitled] (3:36) ; Industrial expansion in the Mississippi Valley (4:27) ; Soil erosion & floods (7:44) ; Finale (3:33) -- The plow that broke the plains. Prelude & fugue (3:33) ; Grass-Pastorale (1:15) ; Cattle (2:01) ; The homesteader (4:04) ; War and the tractor (3:20) ; Blues (speculation) (2:35) ; Drought (0:49) ; Wind and dust (2:28) ; Devastation (4:18).
LCCN
  • 00717744
  • 090998100523
  • 9099810052
OCLC
  • ocm21478422
  • 21478422
  • SCSB-14028348
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries