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Between 1920 and 1933, the American poet Ezra Pound composed two complete operas and several pieces for solo violin, all in a very personal language that drew from sources as diverse as troubadour music and Igor Stravinsky. The resulting body of music is of surpassing beauty and casts new light on the practice of prosody, the elusive craft of setting texts to music. The first and only available CD recording of its kind, Ego Scriptor Cantilenae features outstanding historical performances from England, the U.S., and Holland, as well as new studio recordings by the Other Minds Ensemble. This deluxe package also includes an 80-page booklet by Pound scholar Margaret Fisher, with previously unpublished photographs.
credits
released January 1, 2003
Producer: Charles Amirkhanian
Music Director: Robert Hughes
Booklet Annotator: Margaret Fisher
Recording Engineer: Robert Shumaker
Recording Studio: Bay Records, Berkeley, California
Design: Jim Newman
Drawings of Ezra Pound: Henri Gaudier-Brzeska
Ensembles:
Other Minds Ensemble: Michelle Caimotto, flute; Thomas Nugent, English horn; Carla Wilson, bassoon; Donald Benham, trombone; Mark Veregge, percussion; Nathan Rubin, violin; Emil Miland, cello; Michael Burr, string bass; Rae Imamura, rehearsal pianist.
Arch Ensemble: Patrice Hambelton, flute; Robin May, English Horn; Gregory Barber, bassoon; Daniel Livesay, trombone; Norman Peck, trombone; Ward Spangler, percussion; Nathan Rubin, violin; Ami Radunskaya, cello; Mel Graves, bass; Rae Imamura, rehearsal pianist; Robert Hughes, conductor and co-music director; Thomas Buckner, co-music director and vocal soloist
This recording was made possible through generous grants from:
The Aaron Copland Fund for Music Recording Program
Thendara Foundation
Jennifer Wilson
and the kind assistance of:
Mary de Rachewiltz
Omar S. Pound
Fantasy Records
Philips Records
Thomas Buckner
The Conimicut Foundation
Peggy Fox, New Directions Publishers
Declan Spring, New Directions Publishers
Estate of George Antheil
Patricia Willis, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
Saundra Taylor, Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington
The Rockefeller Study Center, Bellagio, Italy
Cowell Theatre, San Francisco
George Coates, George Coates Performance Works, San Francisco, CA
The Ezra Pound Association, Hailey, Idaho
Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, University of California, Berkeley
The Staff of the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
The Fulbright Commission and Signora Cipriana Scelba, esteemed former director of the Italian program
and with special thanks to:
Stephen Adams, Amir Baghdadchi, Michael André Bernstein, John Bishop, Ed Corn, Thomas Day, Alice Dekker, Stephen Dekker, James Demby, Marjorie Franklin, Donald Gallup, Archie Henderson III, Rae Imamura, Hugh Kenner, James Laughlin, Carol Law, Charles Mundye, Antonio Pantano, Nathan Rubin, Olga Rudge, R. Murray Schafer, Mary Ann Smart, Ruggero Stefanini, Allan Ulrich, Adriaan Verstijnen, Frank Wing, Hugh Witemeyer, and Bill Worthen.
OM 1005-2
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