Research Catalog

Title

Rosalind Rees sings Ned Rorem : with the composer at the piano.

Author

Rorem, Ned, 1923-2022

Publication

Saranac Lake, N.Y. : GSS, ©1984.

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Details

Additional Authors

Rees, Rosalind.

Description

1 sound disc (50 min.) : analog, 33 1/3 rpm; 12 in.

Series Statement

American song series ; v. 1

Uniform Title

• Songs. Selections
• American song series ; v. 1.

Alternative Title

Songs.

Subject

• Songs (High voice) with piano
• Songs (High voice) with piano

Genre/Form

• sound recordings.
• Sound recordings.
• Songs.
• Enregistrements sonores.

Note

• Sung in English.
• Program notes by the composer on container; English words ([2] p.) inserted.

Event (note)

• Recorded at the Episcopal Church of the Holy Trinity, New York City, Feb. 21, 22, and Mar. 25, 1983.

Contents

Alleluia (2:16) -- Two poems of Edith Sitwell (4:24). The youth with the red-gold hair (2:08) ; You the young rainbow of my tears (2:14) -- Three poems of Theodore Roethke (4:54). Root cellar (1:54) ; Snake (0:49) ; The serpent (1:58) -- Three poems of Tennyson (7:45). Ask me no more (3:00) ; Now sleeps the crimson petal (2:58) ; Far - far - away (1:38) -- Two poems of Elizabeth Bishop (5:10). Conversation (1:50) ; Visits to Saint Elizabeths (3:16) -- Poems of Paul Goodman (12:48). Rain in spring (1:25) ; For Susan (1:04) ; Such beauty as hurts to behold (2:35) ; Clouds (2:27) ; Sally's smile (0:43) ; What sparks and wiry cries (2:00) ; The lordly Hudson (2:16) -- Two medieval lyrics (2:45). The nightingale (1:01) ; A Christmas carol (1:41) -- Two poems of Whitman (1:49). Sometimes with one I love (1:25) ; O you whom I often and silently come (0:21) -- Miscellaneous poems (7:28). I am Rose / Gertrude Stein (0:18) ; A journey / Andrew Glaze (1:31) ; Let's take a walk / Kenneth Koch (2:12) ; See how they love me / Howard Moss (1:35) ; Early in the morning / Robert Hillyer (1:40).

OCLC

• ocm12373455
• 12373455
• SCSB-1998698

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library