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The plow that broke the plains / Virgil Thomson.
LIBRA - Manuscripts Storage Ms. Coll. 636 Item 429
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- Format:
- Sound recording
- Author/Creator:
- Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989.
- Standardized Title:
- Plow that broke the plains. Suite
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Suites (Orchestra).
- Motion picture music--Excerpts.
- Motion picture music.
- Genre:
- Sound recordings.
- Suites.
- Excerpts.
- Physical Description:
- 2 audio discs (13:25 min.) : analog, 78 rpm, mono ; 12 in.
- 12 in.
- Contained In:
- Stokowski-Gatewood Collection of Commercial Sound Recordings. Item 429
- Place of Publication:
- Camden, N.J. : RCA Victor, 1947.
- System Details:
- analog
- 78 rpm
- coarse groove
- mono
- Contents:
- Prelude (1:27)
- Grass (1:09)
- Cattle songs (2:43): Homesteader ; Warning ; War and tractor
- Blues (2:29)
- Drought (0:50)
- Devastation (4:47) / Thomson.
- Participant:
- Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra ; Leopold Stokowski, conductor.
- Notes:
- Recorded August 30, 1946.
- Red seal records.
- Program notes by David Hall on container.
- This recording was Record 324 in Gatewood's collection of recordings. A duplicate in Stokowski's collection, Record 291, is no longer in the collection.
- Publisher Number:
- DM 1116 RCA Victor
- 11-9522 RCA Victor
- 11-9523 RCA Victor
- Access Restriction:
- Off-site storage: 24-hour retrieval.
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