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Dreamer : a portrait of Langston Hughes.
LIBRA Naxos 8559136 CD
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Sound recording
- Series:
- American classics (Naxos (Sound recording label))
- American classics
- Language:
- English
- French
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967--Musical settings.
- Hughes, Langston.
- Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967.
- Songs (High voice) with piano.
- Songs (High voice) with instrumental ensemble.
- Song cycles.
- Genre:
- Musical settings.
- Sound recordings.
- Songs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 audio disc (67 min., 18 sec.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
- 4 3/4 in.
- Other Title:
- Portrait of Langston Hughes
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : Naxos, [2002]
- Language Note:
- Read and sung in English.
- System Details:
- digital
- optical
- 1.4 m/s
- digital recording
- Contents:
- My people / Langston Hughes (0:22)
- Heart on the wall. Heart / Robert Owens (1:34)
- Shadow of the blues. Island / John Musto (1:31)
- The weary blues / Hughes (2:10)
- Shadow of the blues. Litany / John Musto (3:26)
- Songs of separation. A black Pierrot / William Grant Still (2:05)
- Beyond the rim of day. March moon / Hale Smith (2:25)
- Negro / Hughes (1:02)
- The Negro speaks of rivers / Margaret Bonds (4:24)
- Genius child. My people / Ricky Ian Gordon (3:28)
- Song to the dark Virgin / Florence Price (2:08)
- Evil / Hughes (0:13)
- Joy / Howard Swanson (0:51)
- Street scene. Lonely house / Kurt Weill (3:48)
- Three dream portraits. Minstrel man / Margaret Bonds (2:15)
- Sunday morning prophecy / Hughes (1:11)
- Fields of wonder. In time of silver rain / Harriette Davision (1:16)
- Four songs of Langston Hughes. Carolina cabin / Jean Berger (2:08)
- Madam and the census taker / Hughes (0:50)
- Lovely, dark and lonely one / Harry T. Burleigh (2:02)
- Sylvester's dying bed / Hughes (1:16)
- Dreamer / Erik Santos (24:37)
- Still here / Hughes (0:35).
- Participant:
- Darryl Taylor, tenor ; William Warfield, narrator ; Maria Corley, Erik Santos (tracks 22-26), piano ; Patricia Terry Ross, harp.
- Notes:
- Songs by W.G. Still, F. Price, K. Weill and others.
- Poems by Langston Hughes, in readings (tracks 1, 4, 8, 12, 16, 19, 21 and 27) and musical settings; tracks 2-3, 5-7, 9-11, 13-15, 17-18 and 20 for voice and piano; tracks 22-26 a song cycle for voice, piano and harp.
- Recorded July 23, 2001, studios of WFMT Radio, Chicago and Dec. 18-21, 2001, Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts Center, Great Hall.
- Compact disc.
- Biographical notes on composers and performers in English, and biographical notes on Langston Hughes in English, German, and French (8 p.) inserted in container.
- Contains:
- Owens, Robert, 1925-2017. Heart on the wall. Heart
- Musto, John, 1954- Shadow of the blues. Island
- Musto, John, 1954- Shadow of the blues. Litany
- Still, William Grant, 1895-1978. Songs of separation. Black Pierrot
- Smith, Hale, 1925-2009. Beyond the rim of day. March moon
- Bonds, Margaret. Negro speaks of rivers.
- Gordon, Ricky Ian. Genius child. My people
- Price, Florence, 1887-1953. Song to the dark virgin.
- Swanson, Howard, 1907-1978. Joy.
- Weill, Kurt, 1900-1950. Street scene. Lonely house; arranged.
- Bonds, Margaret. Dream portraits. Minstrel man
- Davison Watkins, Harriette, 1923-1978. Fields of wonder. In time of silver rain
- Berger, Jean, 1909-2002. Songs (1951). Carolina cabin
- Burleigh, H. T. (Harry Thacker), 1866-1949. Lovely, dark and lonely one.
- Santos, Erik. Dreamer.
- OCLC:
- 50902261
- Publisher Number:
- 636943913628
- 8.559136 Naxos
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