[Place of publication not identified] : Desto, [1964]
Physical Details
2 discs. : 33 1/3 rpm. ; 12 in
OCLC
ocm06155526
Credits
Performed by Eleanor Steber, soprano, Mildred Miller, mezzo-soprano, John McCollum, tenor, or Donald Gramm, baritone, with Edwin Biltliffe or Richard Cumming, piano
Title on container: Songs by American composers.
Texts of the songs and biographical notes by Jack Beeson ([6] p.) laid in container.
Contains songs by Ernst Bacon, Samuel Barber, Jack Beeson, William Bergsma, Paul Bowles, John Alden Carpenter, Theodore Chanler, Aaron Copland, Henry Cowell, David Diamond, John Edmunds, Irving Fine, William Flanagan, Charles T. Griffes, John Gruen, Charles Ives, John La Montaine, Otto Luening, Edward A. MacDowell, Douglas Moore, Vincent Persichetti, Daniel Pinkham, Ned Rorem, Virgil Thomson, Robert Ward, and Ben Weber.
David mourns for Absalom -- Brigid's song -- Sonatina to Hans Christian -- The Divine image -- Love's secret -- Polaroli -- The frog and the snake -- Valentine to Sherwood Anderson -- Send home my long strayed eyes -- Bedlam -- General William Booth enters into Heaven -- Come away death -- Calvinistic evening -- Blue mountain ballads -- Heavenly grass -- Lonesome man -- Cabin -- Sugar in the cane -- The drummer -- The faucon -- Looking glass river -- Jazz-boys -- Alleluia -- It's all I have to bring -- So bashful -- To make a prairie -- And this of all my hopes -- Nuvoletta -- Death be not proud -- Lullee, lullay -- Waikiki -- Stopping by woods on a snowy evening -- The tiger -- The sea -- The rose -- I rise when you enter -- Dirge in woods -- Sorrow of Mydath -- Lady will you come with me into -- Now (more near ourselves than we) -- Spring is like a perhaps hand -- Slow, slow, fresh fount -- Mourn! Mourn! -- The donkey