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The Union : a cantata on music of the North during the years 1861-65 / Richard Bales.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks M1530 .B35 1958
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- Format:
- Sound recording
- Author/Creator:
- Bales, Richard, 1915-1998, Composer.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cantatas, Secular.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Songs and music.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Sound recordings.
- Cantatas.
- Songs.
- Music.
- Physical Description:
- 1 audio disc ; 12 in.
- Other Title:
- March.
- Tenting on the old camp ground.
- Battle cry of freedom.
- Aura Lea.
- Invalid Corps.
- Just before the battle, Mother.
- Vacant chair.
- Abraham Lincoln's funeral march.
- Taps.
- President's grave.
- When Johnny comes marching home.
- Battle hymn of the Republic.
- Tramp! Tramp! Tramp!
- Hold on, Abraham.
- Marching through Georgia.
- Raw recruits.
- Kingdom coming.
- Field at Gettysburg.
- President's hymn.
- Grand view.
- Girl I left behind me.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia, [1958]
- System Details:
- analog
- 33 1/3 rpm
- Contents:
- Movement 1: The American Army (military quickstep)
- Movement 2: Tenting on the old campground
- Movement 3: The battle cry of freedom
- Movement 4: Aura Lea
- Movement 5: The invalid corps
- Movement 6: Just before the battle, mother
- Movement 7: The field at Gettysburg ; The Gettysburg address ; The President's hymn
- Movement 8: The vacant chair
- Movement 9: Abraham Lincoln's funeral march ; Taps (1862); The President's grave.
- Movement 10: The grand review of the Union armies, Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, May 23-24, 1865 ; Assembly of guard detail ; Dress parade and dress guard mounting ; The signal cannon ; When Johnny comes marching home ; Battle hymn of the republic ; Tramp! tramp! tramp! ; Hold on, Abraham ; Marching through Georgia ; Raw recruits ; Kingdom coming ; The girl I left behind me ; Flourish for review.
- Participant:
- Peggy Zabawa, soprano ; Jule Zabawa, baritone ; Raymond Massey, narrator ; Cantata Choir, Lutheran Church of the Reformation ; National Gallery Orchestra ; conducted by the composer.
- Notes:
- Columbia masterworks.
- Cantata for mixed voices, speaker, and orchestra; comprised principally of arrangements of marches and songs from the Civil War era.
- Recorded at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
- Introduction by Goddard Lieberson; essays by Bruce Catton, Clifford Dowdey, and Allan Nevins; biographical notes by Morris Hastings; and lyric texts (60 p. ill., ports., facsims.) bound in album.
- OCLC:
- 3404247
- Publisher Number:
- DL-244 Columbia
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