Audio Recording Words and music première reading of selections from classical literature

Title

• Words and music première reading of selections from classical literature

Names

• Rains, Claude, 1889-1967. prf
• Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund
• Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

• 1953.

Contents

• Edward : ballade in D minor / Johannes Brahms -- Enoch Arden / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- The Canterbury tales (excerpts) / Geoffrey Chaucer -- Journey of the Magi / T.S. Eliot -- Richard II (scene) ; Julius Caesar (scene) / William Shakespeare -- Builders of America (Washington and Lincoln) / Edward Shenton.

Notes

• -  Featuring Claude Rains with Jack Maxim at the piano.
• -  Recorded Oct. 12, 1953, in the Coolidge Auditorium at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.
• -  Sponsored by the Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
• -  Recorded for the Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature.
• -  Literary recordings, rev., enl. ed., p. 196.
• -  Preservation master. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Magnetic Recording Laboratory, 1973. 1 sound tape reel : analog, 7 1/2 ips, double track, mono. ; 10 in.
• -  Cataloging based on container/printed material/LC paperwork.

Medium

• 1 sound tape reel : analog, 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, mono. ; 10 in.

Call Number/Physical Location

• RAA 27815 (original acetate -- not for playback)
• LWO 2161 (preservation master)

Library of Congress Control Number

• 93842939

Online Format

• audio

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/93842939

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• MARCXML Record
• MODS Record
• Dublin Core Record