Research Catalog

Title

The face on the barroom floor / Henry Mollicone. Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird / Lukas Foss.

Author

Mollicone, Henry, 1946-

Publication

New York : Composers Recordings, c1981.

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Additional Authors

• McGiffin, Leanne.
• McCauley, Barry.
• Holloway, David, 1942-
• Freni, RoseMarie.
• Dick, Robert, 1950-
• Williams, Jan.
• Mikhashoff, Yvar, 1941-1993.
• Bowman, John Stewart, 1931-
• Foss, Lukas, 1922-2009.
• D'Arcy, Hugh Antoine, 1843-1925.
• Stevens, Wallace, 1879-1955.

Description

1 sound disc (39 min.) : 33 1/3 rpm, stereo.; 12 in.

Series Statement

American contemporary

Uniform Title

• Face on the barroom floor
• American contemporary.

Alternative Title

• Face on the barroom floor
• Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird.

Subjects

• D'Arcy, Hugh Antoine, 1843-1925 > Musical settings
• Songs (Medium voice) with instrumental ensemble
• Song cycles
• Operas
• Stevens, Wallace, 1879-1955 > Musical settings

Note

• The first work is based on the poem by Hugh Antoine D'Arcy with English words by John S. Bowman; the second is a poem by Wallace Stevens.
• Program notes by Robert Edward Darling and Lukas Foss on container; texts ([2] p.) inserted in container.
• Durations: 22 min., 45 sec. ; 16 min., 5 sec.
• "American Composers Alliance Recording Award record".

Event (note)

• Recorded in the Central City Opera House, Central City, Colo., Aug. 1980 (1st work); and in New York, April 1980 (2nd work).

OCLC

• 237379134
• ocn237379134

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries