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Long time ago : American songs / by Aaron Copland.
Van Pelt - Ormandy Music and Media Center CD 34430
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- Format:
- Sound recording
- Author/Creator:
- Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990.
- Standardized Title:
- Works. Selections
- Language:
- English
- French
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886.
- Songs (Medium voice) with chamber orchestra.
- Songs, English--United States.
- Songs, English.
- United States.
- Chamber orchestra music, Arranged.
- Songs (High voice) with chamber orchestra.
- Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886--Musical settings.
- Dickinson, Emily.
- Ballets--Excerpts.
- Ballets.
- Genre:
- Musical settings.
- Sound recordings.
- Excerpts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 audio disc : digital, stereo ; 4 3/4 in.
- 4 3/4 in.
- Other Title:
- American songs
- Title on container spine: Old American songs, Eight poems of Emily Dickinson, etc.
- Place of Publication:
- [Hamburg], Germany : Teldec Classics, [1994]
- System Details:
- digital
- optical
- 1.4 m/s
- stereo
- digital recording
- Contents:
- Old American songs (orchestral version) : First set. The boatmen's dance (3:04) ; The dodger (2:15) ; Long time ago (3:04) ; Simple gifts (1:36) ; I bought me a cat (2:10)
- Old American songs (orchestral version) : Second set. The little horses (2:49) ; Zion's walls (1:56) ; The golden willow tree (3:37) ; At the river (2:52) ; Ching-a-ring chaw (1:33)
- Down a country lane (2:51)
- Eight poems of Emily Dickinson. Nature, the gentlest mother (3:55) ; There came a wind like a bugle (1:32) ; The world feels dusty (1:55) ; Heart, we will forget him! (2:26) ; Dear March, come in! (2:04) ; Sleep is supposed to be (2:43) ; Going to Heaven! (2:50) ; The chariot (3:08)
- Billy the Kid (selection). Waltz (3:51) ; Prairie night (4:42) ; Celebration dance (2:15).
- Participant:
- Dawn Upshaw, soprano (3rd work) ; Thomas Hampson, baritone (1st work) ; Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra ; Hugh Wolff, conductor.
- Notes:
- Title from container.
- The 4th work, ballet excerpts, performed in the composer's reduced orchestral version.
- Originally for voice and piano (1st and 3rd works) and piano (2nd work); orchestrated by the composer.
- Eds. recorded: Boosey & Hawkes.
- Recorded at the Ordway Music Theatre, St. Paul, Minn., Sept. 1992 (1st-2nd and 4th works) and Sept. 1993 (3rd work).
- Compact disc.
- Program notes by Vivian Perlis, notes on the performers, and texts, all in English with German and French translations ([46] p.) inserted in container.
- Contains:
- Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990. Old American songs, set 1; arranged.
- Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990. Old American songs, set 2; arranged.
- Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990. Down a country lane; arranged
- Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990. Poems of Emily Dickinson. Selections; arranged
- Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990. Billy the Kid. Selections
- OCLC:
- 30722743
- Publisher Number:
- 090317731025
- 9031-77310-2 Teldec Classics
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