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Author Weaver, Carol Ann, composer, instrumentalist.

Title Poland parables / Carol Ann Weaver ; poetry by Connie T. Braun.

Publication Info. [Waterloo, Ont.?] : LORAC Productions ; Kitchener, ON : Pandora Press, 2020.
©2020

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 Talbott OVERSIZE Media  Booklet    Available  Ask at Circulation Desk
Description 1 audio disc (34 min., 54 sec.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (51 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm)
Playing Time 003454
Physical Medium 4 3/4 in.
plastic metal
Description digital
optical
stereo
1.4 m/s
audio file
CD audio
Medium of Performance soprano voice 1 piano 1 2
pre-recorded audio
soprano voice 1 cello 1 piano 1 3
cello 1 piano 1 2
Note Song cycle; music by Carol Ann Weaver.
For soprano and piano (1st-3rd, 7th songs) or soprano, cello, and piano (5th, 8th-10th songs); the 4th track is recordings of "found sounds from Poland and Canada"; the 6th track is for cello and piano.
Performer Mary-Catherine Pazzano, soprano ; Carol Ann Weaver, piano, hand drums, soundscapes, Polish field recordings ; Ben Bolt-Martin, cello.
Event Recorded 2020 July Inception Studio, Toronto, and Rockway Mennonite Church, Kitchener, ON.
Found sounds recorded 2019 July Warsaw, Auschwitz, and Gdansk, Poland, and 2019 September Kitchener, ON.
Note Title from disc label.
Booklet includes sung texts and program notes by the composer and the poet (51 pages : illustrations).
Contents Way to Warsaw (2:20) -- Telegram (5:24) -- The prisoner (3:36) -- On the way to no return : soundscape of found sounds from Poland and Canada (2:22) -- Auschwitz and the warehouse named "Kanada" (2:42) -- For all who have gone (2:19) -- Shoes with eyes (3:41) -- Constellations (4:02) -- Shadows of the moon (3:59) -- Time (4:29).
Summary "Poland parables ... is about Mennonite people and their neighbours through the eyes of children and families before, during and after WWII in Poland and Eastern Europe"--Booklet, title page verso.
Language Sung in English.
Subject Braun, Connie T., 1962- -- Musical settings.
Song cycles.
Song cycles.
Songs (High voice) with piano.
Songs (High voice) with piano.
Songs (High voice) with instrumental ensemble.
Songs (High voice) with instrumental ensemble.
Musique concrète.
Musique concrète.
Mennonites -- Poland -- Songs and music.
Mennonites.
Poland.
Genre/Form Songs and music.
Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Poland -- Songs and music.
Genre/Form Song cycles.
Song cycles.
Chamber music.
Chamber music.
Musical settings.
Musical settings.
Musique concrète.
Musique concrète.
Sound recordings.
Sound recordings.
Songs.
Songs.
Added Author Pazzano, Mary-Catherine, 1988- singer.
Bolt-Martin, Ben, instrumentalist.
Braun, Connie T., 1962- author.
ISBN 9781926599694
1926599691
Music No. LOR-028 LORAC Productions