Northeastern NR 221, LP

Cover VG++, shelf wear, SEALED, Vinyl Presumed MINT.

Ann Silsbee / Elizabeth Vercoe - Contrasts in New Music - Boston Musica Viva, Richard Pittman - Conductor.



1985 issue; recorded at Slosberg Hall, Brandeis University, January 1983, and at Houghton Memorial Chapel, Wellesley College, December 1983.



Tracks are:

Side One

Ann Silsbee: Spirals, for String Quartet and Piano

Side Two

Elizabeth Vercoe: Herstory II - Thirteen Japanese Lyrics for Soprano, Piano, and Percussion.

Elsa Charlston - Soprano

"Elizabeth Vercoe: Herstory II (1979). Thirteen Japanese lyrics translated by Kenneth Rexroth. Published by Arsis Press. For soprano, piano, and percussion. Approxi- mately twenty minutes long. A feast for the accomplished soprano who loves to show great variety of color, declamation, and effects in the voice. Requires great flexibility, a fluid technique, and a wide vocal range. Contains normal singing, sprechstimme, exaggerated portamento, pitched speaking, unpitched speaking, whis- pering, and numerous vocal color and dramatic declamation indications. A work with major dramatic impact. Soprano or lyric mezzo. Difficult." (from http://www.slideshare.net/edgararruda/vocal-music-innovations-in-performance)

"Ann Silsbee (1930-2003)

Composer, pianist, poet. Born Cambridge, Mass. Received musical degrees from Radcliffe and Syracuse and a DMA at Cornell University where she studied with Karel Husa. NEA, MacDowell, Yaddo, Ives, NYSCA, MB Rockefeller. Member BMI. Her music has been performed throughout the USA, in Canada, Europe, China, Japan and South America, and recorded on Leonarda, Northeastern, Vienna Modern Masters, Finnadar and Spectrum. Silsbee was an accomplished pianist whose music, although carefully notated, gives the impression of improvisation, as exemplified in the virtuosity and spontaneity of her song Iris from "Four Songs" (voice and piano).> (from http://www.newyorkwomencomposers.org/bios.php4)

Terrific and Scarce Modern Classical Album in SEALED Condition.

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