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Sonnets of desolation ; Visions and spels / Ben Johnston.
LIBRA CRI 515
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Sound recording
- Author/Creator:
- Johnston, Ben.
- Standardized Title:
- Sonnets of desolation
- Language:
- English
- Navajo
- Subjects (All):
- Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 1844-1889--Musical settings.
- Hopkins, Gerard Manley.
- Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 1844-1889.
- Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices), Unaccompanied.
- Vocal sextets with percussion.
- Improvisation (Music).
- Musical settings.
- Genre:
- Sound recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 audio disc (38 min.) : analog, 33 1/3 rpm, stereo ; 12 in.
- 12 in.
- Other Title:
- Sonnets of desolation.
- Visions and spels.
- Vigil.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Composers Recordings, [1984]
- System Details:
- analog
- 33 1/3 rpm
- microgroove
- stereo
- Participant:
- New Swingle Singers, Ward Swingle, conductor (1st work) ; New Verbal Workshop, Herbert Marder, conductor (2nd work).
- Notes:
- The 1st work is for chorus; the 2nd work is an improvisation for speakers and percussion.
- The 1st work is sung in English; the 2nd work is spoken in English and Navaho.
- Texts by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1st work) and from Technicians of the sacred, Jerome Rothenberg, ed. (2nd work) (2 p.) inserted in container.
- "Visions and spels...was composed by the New Verbal Workshop....The work is truly a group composition." "[It] is a realization of the indeterminate composition Vigil..." -- Container notes by Johnston."
- Eds. recorded: Lingua Press (1st work); Smith Publications (2nd work).
- Durations: 10:45; 26:19.
- Program notes, in part by Johnston, on container.
- Contains:
- Johnston, Ben. Vigil.
- New Verbal Workshop. Visions and spels.
- OCLC:
- 13653928
- Publisher Number:
- CRI SD 515. Composers Recordings
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