| Description |
3 audio discs (138 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Physical Medium |
4 3/4 in. |
| Description |
digital |
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optical |
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1.4 m/s |
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digital recording |
| Series |
American classics
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American classics (Naxos (Sound recording label))
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| Note |
"Occupying 25 years of William Bolcom's compositional life, his 'musical illuminations,' inspired by Blake's own wide panoply of poetic styles in the cycle, travel thrillingly from intense dissonance to folk, rock, and reggae to encompass the breadth of the Blakean spiritual universe."--Container. |
| Performer |
Christine Brewer, Measha Brueggergosman, Ilana Davidson, Linda Hohenfeld, Carmen Pelton, sopranos; Joan Morris, mezzo-soprano; Marietta Simpson, contralto; Thomas Young, tenor; Nmon Ford, baritone; Nathan Lee Graham, speaker/vocals; Tommy Morgan, harmonica; Peter "Madcat" Ruth, harmonica and vocals; Jeremy Kittel, fiddle; University Musical Society; Michigan State University Children's Choir; University of Michigan School of Music Symphony Orchestra; assisting choral ensembles; Contemporary Directions Ensemble; Leonard Slatkin, conductor. |
| Event |
Recorded Apr. 9-10, 2004, Hill Audtiorium, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. |
| Note |
Compact discs. |
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Program notes by the composer, biographical notes on him and the performers, and texts (40 p. : ill.) laid in container. |
| Contents |
CD 1. Songs of innocence. Part I. Introduction ; The ecchoing green ; The lamb ; The shepherd ; Infant joy ; The little black boy -- Part II. Laughing song ; Spring ; A cradle song ; Nurse's song ; Holy Thursday ; The blossom ; Interlude ; The chimney sweeper ; The divine image -- Part III. Nocturne ; Night ; A dream ; On another's sorrow ; The little boy lost ; The little boy found ; Coda. |
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CD 2. Songs of experience. Volume I. Part I. Introduction ; Hear the voice of the bard ; Interlude ; Earth's answer -- Part II. Nurse's song ; The fly ; The tyger ; The little girl lost ; In the southern clime ; The little girl found -- Part III. The clod and the pebble ; The little vagabond ; Holy Thursday ; A poison tree ; The angel ; The sick rose ; To Tirzah. |
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CD 3. Songs of experience. Volume 2. Part IV. The voice of the ancient bard ; My pretty rose tree ; Ah! Sun-flower ; The lilly -- Part V. Introduction to part V ; The garden of love ; A little boy lost ; A little girl lost ; Infant sorrow ; Vocalise -- Part VI. London ; The school-boy ; The chimney sweeper ; The human abstract ; Interlude : voces clamandae ; A divine image. |
| Subject |
Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices) with orchestra.
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Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices) with orchestra. |
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Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices) with orchestra.
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Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices) with orchestra. |
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Blake, William, 1757-1827 -- Musical settings.
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Blake, William, 1757-1827. |
| Genre/Form |
Musical settings.
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Sound recordings.
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Sound recordings.
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Musical settings.
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| Added Author |
Brewer, Christine, 1960- performer.
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Brueggergosman, Measha, performer.
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Davidson, Ilana, performer.
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Hohenfeld, Linda, performer.
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Pelton, Carmen, performer.
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Morris, Joan, 1943- performer.
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Simpson, Marietta, performer.
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Young, Thomas, 1962- performer.
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Ford, Nmon, performer.
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Graham, Nathan Lee, performer.
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Morgan, Tommy, 1932-2022, performer.
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Ruth, Madcat, performer.
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Kittel, Jeremy, performer.
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Slatkin, Leonard, conductor.
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Blake, William, 1757-1827.
Songs of innocence and of experience.
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University of Michigan. University Musical Society, performer.
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Michigan State University. Children's Choir, performer.
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University of Michigan. Contemporary Directions Ensemble, performer.
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University of Michigan. Symphony Orchestra, performer.
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| Added Title |
Songs of innocence and experience |
| Note |
Title on container verso: Songs of innocence and of experience, shewing the two contrary states of the human soul |
| Added Title |
Songs of innocence.
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Songs of experience.
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| Music No. |
8.559216--8.559218 Naxos |
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