| Description |
1 online resource (1 audio file) |
| Contents |
Sorry, wrong number (35:08) -- Practice in the art of elocution (35:10) |
| Notes |
The 1st work an opera in one act; the 2nd work a music theater work for soprano and acting pianist |
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Librettos by Jack Beeson based on a radio play by Louise Fletcher, Sorry, wrong number (1st work), and based on The standard American speaker and entertainer by Frances Putnam Pogle, which quotes the writings of François Delsarte, and includes settings of poems by Rupert Brooke, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, an anonymous poet, and James Whitcomb Riley (2nd work) |
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Librettos and program notes in English in container |
| Performer |
In the 1st work: Patricia Dell, Charlotte Surkin, Roosevelt André Credit, Kimako Trotman, Maria Bedo, Dominic Inferrera, Richard Holmes, Patricia Sonego, John E. Schumacher, vocalists ; Center for Contemporary Opera ; Richard Marshall, conductor. In the 2nd work: Wendy Hill, soprano; Gerald Steichen, piano |
| Event |
Recorded In New York City May 26, 1999 (1st work) and May 16, 2007 (2nd work) |
| Notes |
Sung and spoken in English |
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Hard copy version record |
| Subject |
Operas.
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Music theater.
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Music theater
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Operas
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| Genre/Form |
Streaming audio
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| Form |
Streaming audio
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| Author |
Delsarte, François, 1811-1871.
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Pogle, Frances Putnam
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Hill, Wendy (Soprano)
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Steichen, Gerald.
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Marshall, Richard (John Richard)
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Fletcher, Lucille.
Sorry, wrong number
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Beeson, Jack, 1921-2010.
Practice in the art of elocution.
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Center for Contemporary Opera.
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