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Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 audio disc : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (41 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 28 x 29 cm)
Description
Award-winning illustrator Charles Santore perfectly captures the delight of Santa's wondrous visit with unforgettable images that are sure to enchant young believers--and older ones--for Christmas Eves to come. This is included with a narration by an Academy Award winning actor.
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John Trudell is a Native American songwriter/poet, and an outspoken activist for human rights and environmental issues. AKA GRAFITTI MAN showcases his remarkable spoken-word brand of rock & roll, praised by musicians such as Peter Garrett, Bob Dylan, Kris Kristofferson, and Jackson Browne.
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 sound disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (: col. ill.)
Description
Singer celebrates the joy of movement and the community of dance with a spirited collection of poems. When read aloud, the rhythm of each dance is reflected in the meter of the poem. The CD features Singer reading the poems set to music for each dance.
Pub. Date
p1998
Physical Desc
2 sound discs (174 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (16 p. : ill. ; 12 cm.)
Description
Features 120 poems read by 40 actors, with money from each sale going to the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund. They include: If by Rudyard Kipling read by Michael Caine; The owl and the pussy cat by Edward Lear read by John Cleese; I remember, I remember by Thomas Hood read by Ralph Fiennes; The tiger by William Blake read by Timothy West; Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge read by Pete Postlethwaite; Macavity by T.S. Eliot read by David...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
1 CD audio disc (approximately 53 min.) ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A gorgeous, groundbreaking, and genre-bending collaboration between an iconic author and a unique musical ensemble. Part songwriting, part poetry, part storytelling; all encompassing, all engaging, all beautiful.
Author
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
1 audio disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 guide ([4] pages ; 13 cm)
Description
Reading Raymond Carver's poetry with music written to enhance the impression has evolved into this CD. The germination of the idea occurred in a European tour of the Contemporary Music Coalition with some members of MOKO BOVO sitting in. We decided to explore new compositions unrestrained by genre. The result ranges from Javanese gamelan-like percussion, industrial rock, a tango-waltz, string quartet, funk, to one traditional jazz classic from Mingus....
11) Cry of a dreamer
Author
Pub. Date
p1995
Physical Desc
1 sound disc (56 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 audio disc (42:43) : digital, CD audio, stereo ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Classical singer Julia Bullock makes her solo recording debut, on Nonesuch Records. Bullock is joined on the album by London's Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Christian Reif for Samuel Barber's Knoxville: Summer of 1915 and an aria from John Adams's El Niño. With Reif on the piano, she also performs traditional spirituals and songs by Oscar Brown, Jr.; Billy Taylor; and Sandy Denny. The first track released is an interpretation of the Connie...
15) Speaking tango
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 audio disc : CD audio, stereo ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The practice of pairing music with poetry has a long history. Setting verse to music has become a way to amplify the emotional impact of the writers' words. Argentinean percussionist and composer Minino Garay created a recording, Speaking Tango, that uses poetry to find the essence of the Argentinean tango in contemporary music, something that has been attempted in the genre at least since poet Horacio Ferrer collaborated with Astor Piazzolla.
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