I build a house : vocal music of Lukas Foss.

Author/creator Foss, Lukas composer, narrator.
Format Audio (CD)
Publication InfoNew York, NY : CRI, ℗2001.
Description1 audio disc (58 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Subjects

Other author/creatorMenotti, Gian Carlo, 1911-2007 librettist.
Other author/creatorSmith, Gregg conductor.
Other author/creatorForsmo, Ronald, singer.
Other author/creatorWilloughby, Jay, singer.
Other author/creatorSchmidt, Thomas, 1946- instrumentalist.
Other author/creatorRees, Rosalind, singer.
Other author/creatorStarobin, David, instrumentalist.
Other author/creatorPassaro, Joseph instrumentalist.
Other author/creatorCybriwsky, Oresta instrumentalist.
Included WorkFoss, Lukas, 1922-2009. Behold! I build an house.
Included WorkFoss, Lukas, 1922-2009. Adon olom.
Included WorkFoss, Lukas, 1922-2009. Introductions and goodbyes.
Included WorkFoss, Lukas, 1922-2009. Airs for Frank O'Hara's angel.
Included WorkFoss, Lukas, 1922-2009. Then the rocks on the mountain begin to shout (Choral work)
Included WorkFoss, Lukas, 1922-2009 Profundis.
Other author/creatorGregg Smith Singers performer.
Other author/creatorGregg Smith Vocal Quartet, performer.
Uniform titleVocal music. Selections
Variant title Vocal music of Lukas Foss
Contents Behold I build an house (11:26) -- Adon olom (5:14) -- Introductions and good-byes (9:20) -- Three airs on O'Hara's Angel (9:21) -- "...and then the rocks on the mountains begin to shout" (12:42) -- De profundis (9:49)
General notePrincipally for chorus, in part with soloists; various accompaniments, or unacc. The 3rd work is an opera; libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti.
General noteCompact disc; in part analog recording.
General noteBiographical and program notes, by Watson Bosler and the composer, and vocal texts with English translations ([14] p. : ports.) inserted in container.
Performer In the 1st-3rd and 5th works: Gregg Smith Singers ; Gregg Smith, conductor ; with Ronald Forsmo, tenor (2nd work) ; Jay Willoughby, baritone (3rd work) ; Thomas Schmidt, organ (1st-2nd works). In the 4th work: women of the Gregg Smith Singers ; with Rosalind Rees, soprano ; Lukas Foss, narrator ; David Starobin, mandolin ; Joseph Passaro, percussion ; Oresta Cybriwsky, piano ; Gregg Smith, conductor. In the 6th work: Gregg Smith Singers Quartet ; Gregg Smith, conductor.
Date/time/place of a event noteRecorded in New York City, the 1st and 2nd works in 1997, the 3rd and 4th in 1976, the 5th in 1988, the 6th in 1994.
LanguageSung in English, Hebrew or Latin.
UPC 090438088022
Publisher numberCD 880 CRI