Tales of Hoffnung. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n42031242
Notes:
"An extravagent evening of symphonic caricature"--Insert. Variously: April Cantelo, soprano ; Ian Wallace, bass-baritone ; Edith Evans, declaimer ; John Weeks, Elizabeth Poston, organ ; Lionel Salter, harpsichord ; Felix Aprahamian, percussion ; Hoffnung Festival Opera Company and Chorus ; Hoffnung (i.e., Morley College) Symphony Orchestra ; Norman Del Mar, conductor ; Drum and Fife Band and Trumpeters of the Royal Military School of Music ; Dolmetsch Ensemble. As presented by Gerard Hoffnung with various vocal and instrumental groups, at the Royal Festival Hall, Nov. 21-22, 1958. Program notes by T.E. Bean, including operetta libretto ([8] pages, illustrations), inserted in container.
Contents:
Introductory music played in the foyer / Francis Chagrin -- Two excerpts from A Hoffnung Festival overture / Francis Baines -- Metamorphosis on a bed-time theme / libretto by Alistair Sampson ; music by Joseph Horovitz -- Sugar plums / realised by Elizabeth Poston -- The famous tay whale / a dramatic poem by Wiliam McGonagall ; set to music by Matyas Seiber -- A movement from Concerto for conductor and orchestra / Francis Chagrin -- Punkt Contrapunkt / Bruno Heinz Jaja ; script by John Amis ; music by Humphrey Searle -- Excerpts from The United Nations / Malcolm Arnold -- Waltz for restricted orchestra / P. Racine Fricker -- Let's fake an opera : or, The tales of Hoffnung / by William Mann and Franz Reizenstein ; orchestrated by Eric Wetherall.
OCLC:
(OCoLC)3622567
LCCN:
r59001534
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
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