First National Congress on Women in Music recordings, March 26-29, 1981
Description
2 streaming audio files (48:55) : digital, mono.
Summary
Carol Longsworth gave brief biographies and/or list of works of these women composers in her report: Amy Cheney Beach (Mrs. H. H. A. Beach), Margaret Ruthven Lang, Mabel Wheeler Daniels, Lili Boulanger, Marion Bauer, Gena Brandscombe, Mary Howe, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Louise Talma, Elinor Remick Warren, Miriam Gideon, Margaret Bonds ("The ballad of the brown king"), Phyllis Tate and Thea Musgrave, among others. Dr. Janice Long's dissertation (excerpt) talks in depth about arranger and composer Alice Parker's works, biography and personal words.
Alternative title
First National Congress on Women in Music recordings.
[Part 1]: [Excerpt, End of] [Opening remarks] (Jerry Fisher, moderator) -- Session 2 papers: "A view from the podium: a choral report" / Carol Longsworth -- [Excerpt] "Parker without Shaw" ["Alice Parker with Robert Shaw"] / Dr. Janice Long -- ["Programing contemporary choral music by women composers: repertoire survey" (30 seconds only)] / [Linda Mankin] [ends abruptly]
[Part 2]: [Brief excerpt; 2:14] "Parker without Shaw" / Dr. Janice Long [ends abruptly]
Call number
*LTC-A 1363
Note
Unidentified singing in the background.
Former classmark on original cassette: *LTC 103 (F)
Title from original cassette label; additional information from catalog (cassette tapes, schedule of meetings and concerts, and newspaper clippings ([16], 46, [21] p.).
Catalog available as * L 07-2326.
Access (note)
Access via streaming audio restricted to onsite at New York Public Library secure reading rooms.
Linking entry (note)
Forms part of: First National Congress on Women in Music recordings.
Conference
National Congress on Women in Music (1st : 1981 : New York, N. Y.)
Title
Choral music by women composers : paper presentations.
Production
1981.
Playing time
004641 000214
Type of content
spoken word
Type of medium
audio
Type of carrier
audiocassette
Performer
Carol Longsworth (director of Oberlin Community Chamber Singers, Oberlin, Ohio), Dr. Janice Long (Assistant Professor of Music, La Verne College, California) and Linda Mankin (Associate Professor, Foothill College, Los Altos Hills, California), panel lecturers and commentary ; Jerry Fisher (Director of Choral Publications, Carl Fischer Music Publishing, Inc.), moderator.
Event
Recorded New York University, New York, N. Y. 1981 March 27.
Access
Access via streaming audio restricted to onsite at New York Public Library secure reading rooms.
Forms part of: First National Congress on Women in Music recordings.
Local note
Preservation files: (2 audio files : digital, WAV file, 96 kHz, 24 bit), in long term storage, Digital Library Processing server [myh_ltca1363_f01_em (part 1) and myh_ltca1363_f02_em (part 2)].