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Additional authors

1. Rorem, Ned, 1923-2022.
2. Browning, Robert, 1812-1889.
3. Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973.
4. Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.
5. Woolman, John, 1720-1772.
6. Penn, William, 1644-1718.
7. Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967.
8. Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900.
9. Colette, 1873-1954.
10. Frost, Robert, 1874-1963.
11. Doty, Mark
12. Monette, Paul
13. Saffer, Lisa
14. Ziegler, Delores
15. Ollmann, Kurt
16. Barrett, Michael, 1957-
17. Blier, Steven
18. Cronson, Mary Sharp
19. New York Festival of Song (Musical group)
20. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Description

1. 1 videodisc (NTSC) (67 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

1. This program includes a discussion with Ned Rorem about his new song cycle Evidence of things not seen, interspersed with performances of nine of the cycle's thirty-six songs. Rorem talks about the work's division into three sections--Beginnings, Middles, and Ends--and about the twenty-four authors whose poems and prose pieces he chose to set in the cycle. He also discusses how his background in composing partly stemmed from a love of poetry, and the importance of the text in his work.

Donor/Sponsor

1. Gift of Works & process at the Guggenheim, Mary Sharp Cronson, producer.

Series statement

1. Works & process at the Guggenheim collection ; 091

Uniform title

1. Works and process at the Guggenheim.

Subject

1. Song cycles > Analysis, appreciation
2. Music
3. Composers > United States > 20th century
4. Rorem, Ned, 1923- > Evidence of things not seen
5. Video

Genre/Form

1. Video.
2. Music.

Contents

1. Life in a love / words by Robert Browning ; sung by Delores Ziegler and Kurt Ollmann -- Their lonely betters / words by W. H. Auden ; sung by Lisa Saffer -- A glimpse / words by Walt Whitman ; sung by Kurt Ollmann -- I saw a mass... and The comfort of friends (o the rapes) / words by John Woolman and William Penn ; sung by Delores Ziegler -- Comment on war / words by Langston Hughes ; sung by Delores Ziegler and Lisa Saffer -- Requiescat / words by Oscar Wilde ; sung by Delores Ziegler, Lisa Saffer, and Kurt Ollmann -- On an echoing road / words by Colette ; sung by Lisa Saffer and Delores Ziegler -- Come in / words by Robert Frost ; sung by Lisa Saffer -- Faith and Even now... / words by Mark Doty and Paul Monette ; sung by Kurt Ollmann.

Call number

1. *MGZIDVD 5-1092

Credits (note)

1. Music by Ned Rorem.

Event (note)

1. Recorded as part of the Works & process performance series at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, on Jan. 18, 1998.

Funding (note)

1. With support from The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation, digitization and DVD authoring of the Works & process at the Guggenheim video archive was done by StreamingCulture at the Graduate Center of The City University of New York.

Biography (note)

1. Evidence of things not seen was commissioned by New York Festival of Song and the Library of Congress, and received its premiere in January 1998 at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall.

Title

1. Evidence of things not seen [videorecording] : Works & process at the Guggenheim / [performance series producer, Mary Sharp Cronson].

Imprint

1. 1998.

Country of producing entity

1. U.S.

Series

1. Works & process at the Guggenheim collection ; 091
2. Works and process at the Guggenheim.

Credits

1. Music by Ned Rorem.

Performer

1. Songs performed by Lisa Saffer, Delores Ziegler, and Kurt Ollmann. Pianists: Michael Barrett and Steven Blier. Interviewee: Ned Rorem. Interviewers: Michael Barrett and Steven Blier.

Event

1. Recorded as part of the Works & process performance series at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, on Jan. 18, 1998.

Funding

1. With support from The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation, digitization and DVD authoring of the Works & process at the Guggenheim video archive was done by StreamingCulture at the Graduate Center of The City University of New York.

Biography

1. Evidence of things not seen was commissioned by New York Festival of Song and the Library of Congress, and received its premiere in January 1998 at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall.

Added author

1. Rorem, Ned, 1923-2022. Evidence of things not seen. Selections.
2. Browning, Robert, 1812-1889.
3. Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973.
4. Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.
5. Woolman, John, 1720-1772.
6. Penn, William, 1644-1718.
7. Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967.
8. Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900.
9. Colette, 1873-1954.
10. Frost, Robert, 1874-1963.
11. Doty, Mark.
12. Monette, Paul.
13. Saffer, Lisa. voc
14. Ziegler, Delores. voc
15. Ollmann, Kurt. Singer
16. Barrett, Michael, 1957- Instrumentalist
17. Blier, Steven. Instrumentalist
18. Rorem, Ned, 1923-2022. Interviewee
19. Barrett, Michael, 1957- Interviewer
20. Blier, Steven. Interviewer
21. Cronson, Mary Sharp. Producer
22. New York Festival of Song (Musical group)
23. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

Research call number

1. *MGZIDVD 5-1092