| Description |
10 audio discs : 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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stereo |
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digital recording |
| Performer |
New York Philharmonic ; Kurt Masur, Leonard Bernstein, Howard Hanson, Artur Rodzinski, Erich Leinsdorf, John Barbirolli, Charles Munch, Guido Cantelli, Zubin Mehta, George Szell, Leopold Stokowski, Pierre Monteux, Paul Paray, Leonard Slatkin, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Seymour Lipkin, William Steinberg, Pierre Boulez, David Gilbert, James Chambers, Larry Newland, Andre Kostelanetz, Jahja Ling, Arturo Toscanini, conductors ; Walter Hendl, piano ; Lee Venora, soprano ; Betty Allen, mezzo-soprano ; Arnold Voketaitis, baritone ; Robert Eckert, tenor ; McHenry Boatwright, bass ; John Wummer, flute ; Theodore Cella, harp ; William Warfield, narrator ; Wynton Marsalis, trumpet ; Glenn Dicterow, violin ; Arthur Whittemore, Jack Lowe, pianos ; John Reardon, baritone ; Walter Rosenberger, xylophone ; Choral Art Society ; Irene Gubrud, soprano ; Edward Herman, Jr., trombone ; Boys' Choir of the Little Church Around the Corner and Trinity School ; Brooklyn Boys' Chorus ; Jan De Gaetani, mezzo-soprano ; Julianne Baird, Cheryl Bensman, Jane Bryden, sopranos ; Kimball Wheeler, mezzo-soprano ; Joseph Alessi, trombone ; Stanley Drucker, clarinet ; NBC Symphony Orchestra. |
| Note |
Compact discs. |
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Program notes (2 v., 246 p. each) in box. |
| Contents |
v. 1. Fanfare for the common man / Aaron Copland -- Melpomene, dramatic overture / George Whitefield Chadwick -- Suite no. 2 in E minor : Indian / Edward MacDowell -- The white peacock, op. 7, no. 1 / Charles Tomlinson Griffes -- A victory ball : fantasy for orchestra / Ernest Schelling -- Three places in New England / Charles Ives -- Music for the theatre / Aaron Copland -- Intégrales / Edgard Varèse -- Memories of my childhood : life in a Russian village / Charles Martin Loeffler -- Concerto grosso no. 1 : for string orchestra with piano obbligato / Ernest Bloch -- An American in Paris / George Gershwin -- Symphony no. 2, op. 30 : Romantic / Howard Hanson -- Four saints in three acts : Acts III and IV (abridged) / Virgil Thomson -- El salón México / Aaron Copland -- Sun-treader / Carl Ruggles -- Prairie journal / Aaron Copland -- Third symphony / Roy Harris -- Essay no. 1 / Samuel Barber -- The devil and Daniel Webster : suite / Bernard Herrmann -- Old California / William Grant Still -- Serenade : for solo flute, harp, and strings / Howard Hanson -- Lincoln portrait / Aaron Copland -- Appalachian spring : suite / Aaron Copland -- Symphony no. 2, op. 35 / Paul Creston -- Hymn and fuguing tune no. 2 / Henry Cowell -- Symphony no. 6 / William Schuman. |
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v. 2. A tone parallel to Harlem / Duke Ellington -- Serenade after Plato's Symposium / Leonard Bernstein -- Dramatic overture / Gunther Schuller -- Concertato "Moby Dick" / Peter Mennin -- Orchestral variations / Aaron Copland -- Candide overture / Leonard Bernstein -- Dance variations / Morton Gould -- Medea's meditation and dance of vengeance / Samuel Barber -- The world of Paul Klee / David Diamond -- Symphony no. 3 / Ned Rorem -- Introduction and good-byes / Lukas Foss -- Nonet for strings / Aaron Copland -- Concerto for orchestra / Elliott Carter -- Star-child / George Crumb -- To Vishnu / Alan Hovhaness -- Lamia (revised version) / Jacob Druckman -- Sequoia / Joan Tower -- Tehillim (orchestral version) / Steve Reich -- Short ride on a fast machine / John Adams -- Trombone concerto / Christopher Rouse -- Symphony no. 3 / Ellen Taaffe Zwilich -- Concerto for clarinet and orchestra / William Bolcom -- The stars and stripes forever / John Philip Sousa. |
| Genre/Form |
Orchestral music.
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Sound recordings.
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Sound recordings.
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| Music No. |
NYP 9902--NYP 9903 New York Philharmonic |
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NYP 9904 New York Philharmonic |
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NYP 9905--NYP 9914 New York Philharmonic |
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