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George Crumb : voice of the whale / a film by Robert Mugge.
LIBRA VHS Music Videorecording 215
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Crumb, George--Interviews.
- Crumb, George.
- Composers--United States--Biography.
- Composers.
- Interviews.
- United States.
- Composers--United States--Interviews.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Interviews.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videocassette (54 min.) : sound, color, with black and white sequences ; 1/2 in.
- 1/2 in.
- Other Title:
- Voice of the whale
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Rhapsody Films, [1988]
- System Details:
- VHS.
- analog
- magnetic
- VHS
- Summary:
- American composer George Crumb talks of his life and career. Intercut with a running interview of Crumb by Richard Wernick are performances of Crumb's "Vox Balaenae for Three Masked Players", samples of the rural West Virginia gospel music which has influenced him, demonstrations by Crumb of the exotic instruments and unusual effects wich figure in his compositions, and scenes from his home and university environment.
- Participant:
- Interviewer, Richard Wernick; performers, George Crumb, piano; Barbara Hafner, cello; Carole Morgan, flute, Lambert Orkis, piano, and others.
- Notes:
- Director of photography, Lawrence McConkey; audio dirctor, William Barth; music director, Richard Wernick.
- Video release of a 1976 film.
- OCLC:
- 78549293
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