| Description |
1 audio disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Playing Time |
005923 |
| 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 |
| Note |
Chiefly choral music; some works for organ. |
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Subtitle from container verso. |
| Performer |
Memphis Boychoir; Memphis Chamber Choir; Marian Shaffer, harp; David J. Kienzle, organ; Diane Meredith Belcher, piano; John Ayer, director. |
| Event |
Recorded in 1993, St. John's Episcopal Church, Memphis, Tenn. |
| Note |
Compact disc. |
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Biographical notes on the performers, and texts with English translations (16 p.) in container. |
| Contents |
My dancing day / Gerald Near (1:37) -- Stopping by woods on a snowy evening / Robert Frost (:53) -- The kings and the shepherds / Daniel Pinkham (2:35) -- A pavane for the nursery / William Jay Smith (1:07) -- Love came down at Christmas / Leo Sowerby (3:07) -- Heaven is what I cannot reach / Emily Dickinson (:34) -- Adam lay in bondage / Conrad Susa (1:32) -- from Journey of the Magi. Part 1 / T.S. Eliot -- O magnum mysterium / Ned Rorem -- Villonaud for this yule / Ezra Pound (:31) -- Good King Wenceslas / Leo Sowerby (2:41) -- Bring me the sunset in a cup / Emily Dickinson (1:10) -- Evergreen / Daniel Pinkham (3:22) -- Christmas morning / Elizabeth Madox Roberts -- Nativity carol / Charles Callahan (2:09) -- Prelude on In the bleak midwinter / Allen Gibbs (3:41) -- The seed of David / Lloyd Pfautsch (2:22) -- from A Christmas Carmen / John Greenleaf Whittier (:35) -- Arise, shine / Richard Dirksen (5:58) -- Envoi / Ezra Pound (:23) -- There is no rose / Gerald Near (3:02) -- from Journey of the Magi. Part 2 / T.S. Eliot -- A stable lamp is lighted / David Hurd (3:12) -- from Holidays / Ralph Waldo Emerson (:24) -- Gaudete / James Peebles (7:58) -- Fantasy on Antioch / Emma Lou Diemer (2:29) -- I sing the birth / Richard Dirksen (2:58) -- from The bells / Edgar Allan Poe (:40) -- We wish you a merry Christmas / John Gardner (2:06). |
| Local Note |
Westminster Choir College faculty member publication |
| Language |
Sung in English or Latin; readings in English. |
| Genre/Form |
Carols.
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Carols.
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Chorale preludes.
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Chorale preludes.
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Christmas music.
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Christmas music.
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Sound recordings.
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Sound recordings.
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| Added Author |
Shaffer, Marian, performer.
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Kienzle, David J., performer.
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Belcher, Diane Meredith, performer.
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Ayer, John, conductor.
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Memphis Chamber Choir, performer.
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| Added Title |
American festival of lessons and carols |
| Music No. |
CD 7039 Pro Organo |
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