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Sorry, wrong number ; Practice in the art of elocution / [music and libretto by] Jack Beeson.
- Format:
- Sound recording
- Author/Creator:
- Beeson, Jack, 1921-2010.
- Series:
- Naxos Music Library.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Operas.
- Music theater.
- Genre:
- Downloadable audio file.
- Sound recordings.
- Operas.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 audio file)
- Place of Publication:
- Albany, NY : Albany Records, [2008]
- Language Note:
- Sung and spoken in English.
- System Details:
- digital recording
- Contents:
- Sorry, wrong number (35:08)
- Practice in the art of elocution (35:10).
- Participant:
- In the 1st work: Patricia Dell, Charlotte Surkin, Roosevelt André Credit, Kimako Trotman, Maria Bedo, Dominic Inferrera, Richard Holmes, Patricia Sonego, John E. Schumacher, vocalists ; Center for Contemporary Opera ; Richard Marshall, conductor. In the 2nd work: Wendy Hill, soprano; Gerald Steichen, piano.
- Notes:
- The 1st work an opera in one act; the 2nd work a music theater work for soprano and acting pianist.
- Librettos by Jack Beeson based on a radio play by Louise Fletcher, Sorry, wrong number (1st work), and based on The standard American speaker and entertainer by Frances Putnam Pogle, which quotes the writings of François Delsarte, and includes settings of poems by Rupert Brooke, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, an anonymous poet, and James Whitcomb Riley (2nd work).
- Recorded In New York City May 26, 1999 (1st work) and May 16, 2007 (2nd work).
- Librettos and program notes in English in container.
- Description based on hard copy version record.
- Contains:
- Beeson, Jack, 1921-2010. Practice in the art of elocution.
- Practice in the art of elocution.
- Other Format:
- Source record: Beeson, Jack, 1921-2010. Sorry, wrong number.
- OCLC:
- 811336878
- Publisher Number:
- TROY1009 Albany
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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