Three songs from Cummings / Serge de Gastyne. [between 1950 and 1962]
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Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.). Music Library. General Manuscript Collection.
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Cummings, E.E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962
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E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1894. While at Harvard, he delivered a daring commencement address on modernist artistic innovations, thus announcing the direction his own work would take. In 1917, after working briefly for a mail-order publishing company, the only regular employment in his career, Cummings volunteered to serve in the Norton-Harjes Ambulance group in France. Here he and a friend were imprisoned (on false grounds) for three months in a Frenc...
De Gastyne, Serge
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Composed 1957. First performance Cincinnati, Ohio, 12 April 1957, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Thor Johnson conductor. Dedicated to the memory of Arthur Honegger.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Hollin Hall : ode for orchestra / Serge De Gastyne. [195-]. (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 44158455 Commissioned by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Composed 1955. First performance Cincinnati, Ohio, 7 January 1956, Ciincinnati Symphony O...