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Museum of Mod[ern] Art concert

Title: Museum of Mod[ern] Art concert, 1954-03-11 / featuring music by Tom Scott.
Author: Scott, Tom, 1912-1961
Publication: 1954.

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Found In

Tom Scott audio collection, 1941-1960.

Description

2 streaming audio files (59:14) : digital, mono.

Alternative Title

Where go the boats.
Autumn fires.
Wind.
Tom Scott audio collection.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Songs.
Scherzos.
Demo recordings.
Live sound recordings.

Note

Title from cataloger; additional notes and credits from original concert program (JPB 12-08, b. 6, f. 7)
"Museum of Mod[ern] Art concert; I; 3/11/54"--From original audiotape reel container.
"7"--From original audiotape reel container spine.
Concert was sponsored by the Musicians Performance Trust Fund and Local 802.

Access (note)

Access to original item restricted. Patrons can access streaming audio only at the Library for Performing Arts Research Center.

Source (note)

Music Division, Tom Scott papers

Linking Entry (note)

Forms part of: Tom Scott audio collection, 1941-1960.

Contents

Part 1: Music for string orchestra (1943) (0:01-9:19) -- Lento for saxophone and strings (1944; world premiere performance) (9:24-16:13) -- Scherzo for oboe and strings (1945; world premiere performance) (16:20-21:46) -- From the Sacred Harp (1946) (21:51-28:55)
Part 2: Ballad of the harp weaver (1947) / text by Edna St. Vincent Millay (0:01-8:24) -- Binorie variations for solo violin, cello, harp and strings (1953) (8:27-18:47) -- Three songs for children, from "A child's garden of verse" by Robert Louis Stevenson (1954; world premiere performance): Where go the boats (18:55-20:48) ; Autumn fires (20:49-22:36) ; The wind (22:42-24:16) -- Canon, passacagla & procession from "Sophocles, the Hyena" [adapted from symphonic version] (1954) (24:19-27:52) -- [Applause] (27:57-28:18) -- Closing words of thanks from composer (Tom Scott, commentator) (28:19-30:13)

Call Number

*LT-7-A 4089

OCLC

945553721

Author

Scott, Tom, 1912-1961, composer.

Title

Museum of Mod[ern] Art concert, 1954-03-11 / featuring music by Tom Scott.

Production

1954.

Playing Time

002901 003013

Type of Content

performed music

spoken word

Type of Medium

audio

computer

Type of Carrier

audiotape reel

online resource

Digital File Characteristics

audio files WAV file

Performer

Teo Macero, saxophone (Part 1: 2nd work) ; Whitney Tustin, oboe (Part 1: 3rd work) ; Victor Salvi, harp (Part 2: 1st-2nd and 4th works) ; Bob Blossom, narrator (Part 2: 1st work) ; Bernard Eichenbaum, violin (Part 2: 2nd work) ; Richard Kay, cello (Part 2: 2nd work) ; Susan Reed, soprano (Part 2: 3rd-5th works) ; with unidentified horn player(Part 2: 6th work) ; and string orchestra (Bernard Eichenbaum, Eugene Bergen, Arnold Belnick, Helen Janov, Raymond Kunicki, Blanche Raisen and Helene Airoff, violins ; David Schwartz and Claire Kroyt, violas ; Richard Kay and Milton Prinz, cello ; Homer Mensch, double bass) (Part 1: 1st-4th works; Part 2: 1st-3rd, 5th-6th works) ; Emanuel Vardi, conductor ; with additional commentary by Tom Scott.

Event

Recorded live (tape later edited) Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), New York, New York 1954 March 11.

Access

Access to original item restricted. Patrons can access streaming audio only at the Library for Performing Arts Research Center.

Original Version

Archival original: (1 audiotape reel : analog, 7 1/2 ips, half-track, mono, NAB ; 7 in.) in *LT-7-A 4089.

Linking Entry

Forms part of: Tom Scott audio collection, 1941-1960.

Local Note

Preservation files: (2 audio files : digital, WAV file, 96 kHz, 24 bit), in long term storage, Digital Library Processing server [myh_lt7a4089_v01f01_em (Part 1) and myh_lt7a4089_v01f02_em (Part 2)].

Source

Separated from; Music Division, Tom Scott papers, 1912-1970 (bulk 1942-1960); JPB 12-08.

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Added Author

Scott, Tom, 1912-1961, commentator.

Vardi, Emanuel, conductor.

Blossom, Bob, narrator.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 1892-1950, lyricist.

Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894, lyricist.

Macero, Teo, 1925-2008, performer.

Tustin, Whitney, performer.

Salvi, Victor, performer.

Eichenbaum, Bernard, performer.

Kay, Richard (Cellist), performer.

Reed, Susan, 1926-2010, performer.

Bergen, Eugene, performer.

Belnick, Arnold, performer.

Janov, Helen, performer.

Kunicki, Raymond, performer.

Raisen, Blanche, performer.

Airoff, Helene, performer.

Schwartz, David (Violist), performer.

Kroyt, Claire, performer.

Prinz, Milton, performer.

Mensch, Homer R., performer.

Adaptation of (work): Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 1892-1950. Ballad of the harp weaver.

Musical setting of (work): Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894. Child's garden of verses. Selections.

Container of (work): Scott, Tom, 1912-1961. Music, string orchestra.

Container of (work): Scott, Tom, 1912-1961. Lentos, saxophone, string orchestra.

Container of (work): Scott, Tom, 1912-1961. Scherzos, oboe, string orchestra.

Container of (work): Scott, Tom, 1912-1961. From the Sacred Harp.

Container of (work): Scott, Tom, 1912-1961. Ballad of the harp weaver.

Container of (work): Scott, Tom, 1912-1961. Binorie variations.

Container of (work): Scott, Tom, 1912-1961. Songs for children.

Container of (work): Scott, Tom, 1912-1961. Sophocles the Hyena. Selections; arranged.

Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.), sponsor.

Musicians Performance Trust Fund, sponsor.

American Federation of Musicians. Local 802, sponsor.

Scott, Susanna, donor.

Added Title

Where go the boats.

Autumn fires.

Wind.

Tom Scott audio collection.

Found In:

Tom Scott audio collection, 1941-1960.

Research Call Number

*LT-7-A 4089

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