Songs for a rainy night : three songs for baritone voice and orchestra / Gardner Read ; [text by Frances Frost and James Joyce.] [19--].

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Songs for a rainy night : three songs for baritone voice and orchestra / Gardner Read ; [text by Frances Frost and James Joyce.] [19--].

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Read, Gardner, 1913-2005

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Originally composed for French horn and piano, 1934, as op. 31. Transcribed for viola and piano, 1940, as op. 31a. This transcription 1946.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Poem : for horn in F, or viola, with string orchestra accompaniment, op. 31b / Gardner Read. [19--] (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 53334385 Composed 1940-42. Awarded first prize in the Paderewski Fund Prize Competition, 1943. First performance Boston, 26 November 1...

Frost, Frances, 1905-1959

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Frances Mary Frost (1905-1959), poet, novelist, and author of chidren's books, wrote several volumes of poetry including Hemlock Wall (1929), a dozen books of juvenile fiction, and five novels. From the description of Frances Frost papers, 1919-1976 (inclusive), 1928-1959 (bulk). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702131651 American author, born 3 August 1905 in St. Albans, Vermont. Mother of the poet Paul Blackburn. From the description of Papers, 1936-1959, bulk 19...

Joyce, James, 1882-1941

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James Augustus Aloysius Joyce was born on February 2, 1882, in Rathgar, a borough of Dublin, Ireland, the eldest of ten children who survived infancy. In 1888 he was enrolled at Clongowes Wood College, a Jesuit boarding school near Dublin, where he stayed until 1891. Thereafter he attended Belvedere College, and then University College, Dublin, where he graduated in 1902 with a major in Italian. While at UCD Joyce wrote a paper in defense of Henrik Ibsen's drama called Drama and Life, which was ...