Research Catalog

Title

Portrait [sound recording] / Ruth Crawford Seeger.

Author

Seeger, Ruth Crawford, 1901-1953.

Publication

Hamburg, Germany : Deutsche Grammophon, p1997.

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Additional Authors

• Shelton, Lucy.
• Leeuw, Reinbert de, 1938-
• Wood, James, 1953-
• Knussen, Oliver.
• Seeger, Ruth Crawford, 1901-1953.
• Seeger, Charles, 1886-1979.
• New London Chamber Choir. prf
• Schönberg-Ensemble. prf

Description

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

Uniform Title

Works. Selections

Alternative Title

Works.

Subject

• Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967 > Musical settings
• Tsiang, H. T., 1899-1971 > Musical settings
• Orchestral music
• Choruses (Women's voices), Unaccompanied
• Piano music
• Songs (High voice) with instrumental ensemble
• String quartets
• Songs (High voice) with piano
• Suites (Bassoon, clarinet, flute, horn, oboe)

Note

• Vocal and instrumental works; includes 1 instrumental selection by Charles Seeger.
• Compact disc.
• Biographical and program notes by Judith Tick and vocal texts, all in English with French and German translations (44 p. : ill.) inserted in container.

Event (note)

• Recorded Feb. 1996, Maria Minor Church, Utrecht.

Language (note)

• Vocal works sung in English; words by Carl Sandburg and H.T. Tsiang.

Contents

Music for small orchestra (Slow, pensive ; In roghish humor, not fast) (9:53) ; Three chants : for women's chorus (To an unkind god ; To an angel ; To a kind god) (9:17) ; Piano study in mixed accents (1:23) ; Three songs (Rat riddles ; Prayers of steel ; In tall grass) (8:41) ; String quartet 1931 (11:36) ; 2 ricercare for voice and piano (Sacco, Vanzetti ; Chinaman, laundryman) (9:36) ; Andante for strings (3:58) ; Rissolty rossolty (2:56) / Ruth Crawford Seeger -- John Hardy / Charles Seeger (3:34) -- Suite for wind quintet / Ruth Crawford Seeger (10:04).

LCCN

028944992526

OCLC

• ocm37816744
• 37816744

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries