| Description |
4 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 |
| Note |
Rerecorded from the vinyl long-playing records issued as part of the college's fiftieth anniversary. Historical recordings performed by groups and individuals associated with Westminster Choir College, 1926-1976. |
| Performer |
Narrators are Cecil Stewart, disc 1; Ross Rosazza, disc 2; Lee H. Bristol, Jr., disc 3; Ray Robinson, disc 4. Includes these speakers: Charles Higgins, Carl Weinrich, John Finley Williamson, Charles R. Erdman, Roger Wagner, Rhea B. Williamson, Alexander McCurdy, Harold Zabrack, Jerome Hines. |
| Note |
Compact discs. |
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For accompanying book, see Archives LP 423918. |
| Contents |
Disc 1: Celestial voices / Alcock (Victor 20468) -- Hodie Christus natus est / Palestrina -- Crucifixus / Lotti (Victor 20410) -- Beautiful Saviour / Christiansen (RCA CS 92172) -- Carol of the bells / Wilhousky-- Carillon (Columbia 36419) -- Sing we all noel [nowell] (Columbia 36420) -- Symphony for voices / Roy Harris (Victor 14803) -- Ballad for Americans / Earl Robinson (Columbia set no. C49) -- Charles Higgins speaks about spirituals -- Water boy / Avery Robinson (Victor 1883) -- Ezekiel (Westminster Choir, 1949) -- Going home / Dvořák (HMV D1647) -- Kommst du nun Jesu ; Fugue in C minor / J.S. Bach (Weinrich, Musicraft, 1934) -- All breathing life / Bach (Victor 1845, John Finley Willliamson; Westminster Choir, 1949 (Williamson); Westminster Choir, 1971 (Elaine Brown) -- Praise to the Lord / Christiansen (Westminster Choir, 1949) -- -- |
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Disc 2: St. Matthew Passion [excerpt] / Bach (Bruno Walter, 1943) -- Requiem [excerpt] / Mozart (Bruno Walter rehearsal, 1950; Princeton Symphony, Nicholas Harsanyi, Apr. 1955) -- Toscanini rehearsal, 1940 -- Requiem [excerpt] / Verdi (Ormandy, Columbia M2S707) -- Magnificat / Monteverdi (Apr. 1956) -- Alleluia / Thompson -- The Creation / Tom Scott -- Lonesome cowboy (Westminster Choir, 1950) -- The prairie / Lukas Foss (Philharmonic Symphony Society of N.Y. ; Artur Rodzinski, Jan. 1945) -- Motet no. 41 [51?] / Brahms (Professional Summer School, 1954)-- Canterbury fair (Vocal Camp Summer School, 1952) -- McCurdy teaching chants (Christmas 1949) -- Requiem [excerpt] / Cherubini (Graduate Dept.) -- Williamson philosophy, 1963 -- Celestial voices / Alcock (Williamson, final concert, Aprl. 1958) -- How lovely are Thy dwellings / Brahms (Williamson, Apr. 1961) -- -- |
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Disc 3: Sketch in D♭ / Schumann (McCurdy, Oct. 1960, rededication of new Chapel organ) -- Erdman, September 1957 -- Pacem (Mass in C) -- (Nov. 1960) -- How excellent thy name / Howard Hanson -- Chichester Psalms / Bernstein (1966 commencement) -- Psalm 150 / George Lynn (Choir College sings, record vol. II) -- Variations on a French tune / Warren Martin (Princeton Symphony ; Nicholas Harsanyi, 1955) -- Once to every man and nation / David Stanley York (Sept. 1956) -- Praise my soul (1974 commencement) -- O master let me walk with thee (1950 student body) -- Old 100th (commencement 1964) -- -- |
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Disc 4: Processional / Warren Martin (Joan Lippincott, organ, 1970 commencement) -- Gloria (B minor mass) (Roger Wagner, summer 1972) ; O Gott du Frommer Gott (Lippincott, Scheide organ dedication) / Bach -- Piano sonata no. 1 / Harold Zabrack (1976) -- Create in me / Carl F. Mueller (Church music class, John Kemp, Apr. 1976) -- Jerome Hines art song class, 1974 -- German Requiem / Schütz (Ehmann, summer 1975) -- LoRean Hodapp, 1975 -- Ballad of the harp weaver / Elinor Remick Warren (Graduate Choir ; Walter Johnson) -- God is a spirit / David Hugh Jones (Chapel Choir ; Robert Simpson, Apr. 1976) -- Jonah / Carissimi (Oratorio Choir ; Dennis Shrock, Feb. 1976) -- Il est bel et bon / Passereau (Westminster Choir ; Roger Wagner, 1972) -- Chanson / Debussy (Westminster Choir ; Flummerfelt, 1972) -- Variations on a recitativ / Schoenberg (Lippincott, 1975) -- Have you seen the white lily grow / Irving Fine (Westminster Choir ; Flummerfelt, Apr. 1976) -- Ninth symphony [excerpt] / Beethoven (N.Y. Philharmonic ; von Karajan, Nov. 1958) -- Benediction / Peter C. Lutkin (1957 commencement). |
| Local Note |
Westminster Choir College performance. |
| Subject |
Westminster Choir College -- History.
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Westminster Choir College. |
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History. |
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Choruses.
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Choruses. |
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Organ music.
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Organ music. |
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Organ music.
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Sound recordings.
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Sound recordings.
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| Added Author |
Winslow, Carlette Mueller.
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Wight, Kenneth R.
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Williamson, John Finley, 1887-1964.
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Higgins, Charles.
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Weinrich, Carl.
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Erdman, Charles R. (Charles Rosenbury), 1866-1960.
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Wagner, Roger, 1914-1992.
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Williamson, Rhea B.
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McCurdy, Alexander.
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Zabrack, Harold.
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Hines, Jerome, 1921-2003.
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Westminster Choir, performer.
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Westminster Choir College.
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| Added Title |
Sounds of the first fifty years |
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