Sesquicentennial premiere : Eros and Psyche, by Conrad Cummings : production materials, 1983-1984 / Judith Layng, director ; Robert Baustian, musical director ; Alan Montgomery, ass't musical director.

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Sesquicentennial premiere : Eros and Psyche, by Conrad Cummings : production materials, 1983-1984 / Judith Layng, director ; Robert Baustian, musical director ; Alan Montgomery, ass't musical director.

Collection contains score (4 v.), vocal score (1 v.), vocal scores for individual roles and chorus, and libretto, all published: New York, N.Y. : Belwin-Mills Publishing Corp., [1983?]; mss. (printouts) of vocal score and libretto; mss. and sketches of musical materials and libretto in pencil; printed materials related to the sesquicentennial celebration, including a memorandum from the Dean of the Conservatory, David Boe, announcing sesquicentennial "commissions" from members of the theory-composition faculty; 4 videocassettes (Beta) of one of the performances of the production; ms. correspondence (including letters from director; from authors whose comments on the libretto were solicited; from music critic, author and historian Andrew Porter, to whom the work was dedicated; with printer; from cast members); press release; pre-production newspaper articles; full issues of periodicals which include review of the premier (including issues of Opera News, Opera, Musical America, and The New Yorker); reviews from Ohio newspapers; composer's post-production press materials provided to publisher.

3 boxes.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7539492

Oberlin College Library

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Oberlin Opera Theater.

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Opera in three acts commissioned for the Oberlin Opera Theater as part of Oberlin College's 150th anniversary celebration; performed by arrangement with Belwin-Mills Publishing Corp. From the description of Sesquicentennial premiere : Eros and Psyche, by Conrad Cummings : production materials, 1983-1984 / Judith Layng, director ; Robert Baustian, musical director ; Alan Montgomery, ass't musical director. (Oberlin College Library). WorldCat record id: 44193760 ...

Montgomery, Alan, 1946-

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Layng, Judith

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Baustian, Robert

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Cummings, Conrad, 1948-....

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