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Evidence of things not seen Works & process at the Guggenheim

Title
Evidence of things not seen [videorecording] : Works & process at the Guggenheim / [performance series producer, Mary Sharp Cronson].
Publication
1998.

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Additional Authors
  • Rorem, Ned, 1923-2022.
  • Browning, Robert, 1812-1889.
  • Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973.
  • Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.
  • Woolman, John, 1720-1772.
  • Penn, William, 1644-1718.
  • Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967.
  • Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900.
  • Colette, 1873-1954.
  • Frost, Robert, 1874-1963.
  • Doty, Mark.
  • Monette, Paul.
  • Saffer, Lisa.
  • Ziegler, Delores.
  • Ollmann, Kurt.
  • Barrett, Michael, 1957-
  • Blier, Steven.
  • Cronson, Mary Sharp.
  • New York Festival of Song (Musical group)
  • Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
Description
1 videodisc (NTSC) (67 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.
Summary
This program includes a discussion with Ned Rorem about his new song cycle Evidence of things not seen, interspersed with performances of nine of the cycle's thirty-six songs. Rorem talks about the work's division into three sections--Beginnings, Middles, and Ends--and about the twenty-four authors whose poems and prose pieces he chose to set in the cycle. He also discusses how his background in composing partly stemmed from a love of poetry, and the importance of the text in his work.
Donor/Sponsor
Gift of Works & process at the Guggenheim, Mary Sharp Cronson, producer.
Series Statement
Works & process at the Guggenheim collection ; 091
Uniform Title
Works and process at the Guggenheim.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Video.
  • Music.
Credits (note)
  • Music by Ned Rorem.
Event (note)
  • Recorded as part of the Works & process performance series at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, on Jan. 18, 1998.
Funding (note)
  • With support from The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation, digitization and DVD authoring of the Works & process at the Guggenheim video archive was done by StreamingCulture at the Graduate Center of The City University of New York.
Biography (note)
  • Evidence of things not seen was commissioned by New York Festival of Song and the Library of Congress, and received its premiere in January 1998 at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall.
Contents
Life in a love / words by Robert Browning ; sung by Delores Ziegler and Kurt Ollmann -- Their lonely betters / words by W. H. Auden ; sung by Lisa Saffer -- A glimpse / words by Walt Whitman ; sung by Kurt Ollmann -- I saw a mass... and The comfort of friends (o the rapes) / words by John Woolman and William Penn ; sung by Delores Ziegler -- Comment on war / words by Langston Hughes ; sung by Delores Ziegler and Lisa Saffer -- Requiescat / words by Oscar Wilde ; sung by Delores Ziegler, Lisa Saffer, and Kurt Ollmann -- On an echoing road / words by Colette ; sung by Lisa Saffer and Delores Ziegler -- Come in / words by Robert Frost ; sung by Lisa Saffer -- Faith and Even now... / words by Mark Doty and Paul Monette ; sung by Kurt Ollmann.
Call Number
*MGZIDVD 5-1092
OCLC
85456481
Title
Evidence of things not seen [videorecording] : Works & process at the Guggenheim / [performance series producer, Mary Sharp Cronson].
Imprint
1998.
Country of Producing Entity
U.S.
Series
Works & process at the Guggenheim collection ; 091
Works and process at the Guggenheim.
Credits
Music by Ned Rorem.
Performer
Songs performed by Lisa Saffer, Delores Ziegler, and Kurt Ollmann. Pianists: Michael Barrett and Steven Blier. Interviewee: Ned Rorem. Interviewers: Michael Barrett and Steven Blier.
Event
Recorded as part of the Works & process performance series at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, on Jan. 18, 1998.
Funding
With support from The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation, digitization and DVD authoring of the Works & process at the Guggenheim video archive was done by StreamingCulture at the Graduate Center of The City University of New York.
Biography
Evidence of things not seen was commissioned by New York Festival of Song and the Library of Congress, and received its premiere in January 1998 at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall.
Added Author
Rorem, Ned, 1923-2022. Evidence of things not seen. Selections.
Browning, Robert, 1812-1889.
Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973.
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.
Woolman, John, 1720-1772.
Penn, William, 1644-1718.
Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967.
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900.
Colette, 1873-1954.
Frost, Robert, 1874-1963.
Doty, Mark.
Monette, Paul.
Saffer, Lisa. voc
Ziegler, Delores. voc
Ollmann, Kurt. Singer
Barrett, Michael, 1957- interviewee.
Blier, Steven. Instrumentalist
Rorem, Ned, 1923-2022. Interviewee
Barrett, Michael, 1957- interviewer.
Blier, Steven. Interviewer
Cronson, Mary Sharp. Producer
New York Festival of Song (Musical group)
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
Research Call Number
*MGZIDVD 5-1092
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