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Author Sperry, Paul, performer.

Title Paul Sperry sings romantic American songs : Richard Hundley, Paul Bowles, Virgil Thomson, Arthur Farwell, Theodore Chanler.

Publication Info. Albany, N.Y. : Albany Records, [1990]

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Description 1 audio disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Playing Time 010356
Physical Medium 4 3/4 in.
Description digital
optical
1.4 m/s
digital recording
Note Albany Records: TROY043 (on container spine: TROY043-2).
Words by James Purdy, William Shakespeare, Gertrude Stein, Paul Bowles, Tennessee Williams, Kenneth Koch, Thomas Campion, Marianne Moore, Archibald MacLeish, Leonard Feeney, William Blake, and anonymous sources.
Performer Paul Sperry, tenor; Irma Vallecillo, piano.
Event Recorded 1983 and 1990, Episcopal Church of the Holy Trinity, New York City.
Note Compact disc.
Program notes by Paul Sperry, biographical notes on the performers, and texts ([16] p.) in container.
Contents Ballad on Queen Anne'[s] death (1:31) ; Bartholomew Green (:35) ; Come ready and see me (2:04) ; Sweet Suffolk owl (1:30) ; Spring (1:07) ; Waterbird (3:54) ; I do (:43) ; Isaac Greentree (1:04) ; On a wife (:43) ; The astronomers (1:43) ; Some sheep are loving (1:59) / Richard Hundley -- Once a lady was here (1:36) ; Three (1:30) ; Letter to Freddy (1:16) ; April fool baby (1:12) ; Baby, baby (2:18) / Paul Bowles -- A prayer to St. Catherine (2:38) ; There is a garden in her face (1:38) ; English usage (2:18) ; Take, O take those lips away (2:53) ; Preciosilla (3:26) / Virgil Thomson -- Eleven poems of Emily Dickinson. I'm nobody (:51) ; Safe in their alabaster chambers (1:57) ; The level bee (:58) ; The butterfly (1:24) ; Summer's armies (2:28) ; Presentiment (1:29) ; The grass so little has to do (1:24) ; Aristocracy (:29) ; Tie the strings to my life (1:06) ; Papa above! (1:24) ; Ample make this bed (1:17) / Arthur Farwell -- O mistress mine (1:12) ; These, my Op̈helia (2:43) ; The doves (2:06) ; Memory (1:41) ; I rise when you enter (1:26) / Theodore Chanler.
Subject Songs (High voice) with piano.
Songs (High voice) with piano.
Songs, English -- United States.
Songs, English.
United States.
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 -- Musical settings.
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886.
Genre/Form Musical settings.
Sound recordings.
Sound recordings.
Songs.
Songs.
Musical settings.
Added Author Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886, lyricist.
Vallecillo, Irma, performer.
Hundley, Richard. Songs. Selections.
Bowles, Paul, 1910-1999. Songs. Selections.
Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989. Songs. Selections.
Farwell, Arthur, 1872-1952. Emily Dickinson songs, op. 108. Selections.
Farwell, Arthur, 1872-1952. Emily Dickinson songs, op. 105. Selections.
Farwell, Arthur, 1872-1952. Emily Dickinson songs, op. 112. Grass so little has to do.
Farwell, Arthur, 1872-1952. Emily Dickinson songs, op. 107. Tie the strings to my life.
Chanler, Theodore, 1902-1961. Songs. Selections.
Note Title on container spine: Romantic American songs
Music No. TROY043 Albany Records
TROY043-2 Albany Records