United States Music

[shamus]

Here are reposts of American music found by Sydney to have broken links. They are all in one big file, and if I have missed a description, I always write the performers, etc. in the track name. If problems, contact me.

http://www.mediafire.com/?vf24w1rqeeg15


Rebekah Harkness
  Barcelona Suite
  Gift of the Magi
    Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Sylvan Levin (Landmarks of American Music--Vanguard VRS 1058)

Eugene Weigel (Born in Ohio, later career in Canada)
  Prairie Symphony
    University of Illinois SO, Bernard Goodman (CRS 2 10" LP)
Gordon Binkerd
  Sun Singer
    University of Illinois SO, Bernard Goodman (CRS 2 10" LP)

Max Brand
  The Wonderful One-Hoss Shay
    Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy (Columbia ML 2141 10" LP)

Mana-Zucca (Augusta Zuckerman)
  Piano Concerto in E flat major
    Mana-Zucca, Piano, O de l'association des concerts Pasdeloup, Paris, Jean Allain (Bradime-Disques LP LD-MS-1601)

Boris Koutzen (born in Russia but from age 23 career was in USA, citizen from 1929
  Concertino for Piano and Strings
    Robert Guralnik, Piano, Orchestre Lamoureux, Leon Barzin (Serenus LP SRE 1010/SRS 12010)

Charles Haubiel
  Pioneers, a Symphonic Saga
  Portraits for Symphony Orchestra
    Philharmonia Orchestra, Hans-Jurgen Walther (Dorian Records LP 1008)

Louis Edgar Johns
  Medieval Suite for String Orchestra
    Philharmonia Orchestra, Hans-Jurgen Walther (Dorian Records LP 1008)

Charles Wakefield Cadman
  American Suite
    Philharmonia Orchestra, Hans-Jurgen Walther (Dorian Records LP 1008

Julia Smith
  Piano Concerto in e (Intro and 3 mvts, don't know titles of mvts)
    Larry Waltz, Piano, Dallas Civic O, Lee Schaend (Radio broadcast)

Gastone Usigli (born in Venice but career in San Francisco after 1930 or so)
  Prometheus unbound
  Humanitas
    Wiener konzert-vereinigung, F. Charles Adler (Memorial LP to composer, no numberings, etc.)

Conrad de Filipis, MD
  Symphonic Rhapsody for Orchestra
    London SOo, Alun Francis
  Dialogue for Piano and Orchestra
    Phillip Fowke, Pf, London SO, Alun Francis (From Cassette MMG D-CMG 116--no evidence of CD re-release found by me)

Rayner Brown 1912-1999
Concerto for Two Pianos, Brass and Percussion
    Los Angeles Brass Society, Sharon Davis, Russell Stepan, Pianos (LP WIM Records 
 
William Schmidt 1926-2009
  Double Concerto for Trumpet, Piano and CO, Anthony Plog, Trumpet, Sharon Davis, Piano, Pasadena CO, Robert Kenneth Duerr (LP WIM Records WIMR-20)

James Sellars 1943-
  Pianoconcert
    Yvar Mikhashoff, Piano, Danish RCO, Jorma Panula (LP Spectrum SR 310)

Boris Pregel was born in Ukraine, ultimately came to US in 1939 and worked as an engineer in the atomic science field. But he studied music from very young and composed at least the following light pieces from an old LP (HiFi MUSIC LPM 1027)


Milano Symphony Orchestra, D'Artega:

Concerto Pathetique
  Bruno Canino, Piano
Petit Scherzo
Romance
Fantasy in D Major
  Renato Biffoli, Violin
Nocturne Dramatique
  Bruno Canino, Piano
Valse
Prelude
Poeme Symphonique

Eric Delamarter
Here are some very old recordings of American composer Eric DeLamarter's music, taken from a radio broadcast many years ago, some have announcements at end, and they merely say "played by an orchestra, conducted by the composer", no more specific than that. I am including all that I have, regardless of sound condition!:
Track 1: String Quartet
Track 2: Symphony in D
Track 3: Giddy Puritan Overture
Tracks 4 and 5: Sunset Trio
Track 6: Symphony No. 2
Tracks 7 and 8: Huckleberry Finn

Eric Stokes
Here are some broadcast recordings of the 5 Symphony(s) [yes, that's how he named them] of American composerEric Stokes and his Music for Piano and Orchestra, He pretty much went his own way in composition, and though these recordings aren't divided into movements, I will include the names of the mvts because they are entertaining at the very least. Here is an article called "Remembering Eric Stokes" that was written for the liner notes of a New World CD of Stokes' music, (doesn't include any of these works) which is very informative about this interesting man. There's also a brief wiki.
http://www.newworldrecords.org/linernotes/80596.pdf

Symphony(s) I
  Rines, Intermedii, Turkey Tracks, Echo's Shell
    Atlanta SO, Dennis Russell Davies (11-08-1986)
Symphony(s) II
  Distant drummer, granary of the birds, turkey tracks
    Rochester PO, David Zinman (02-11-1982)
Symphony(s) III "Captions on the War Against Earth
  Explaining Hell to the Natives, Petroleum Junkie, Uranium High Train
    Kansas City Symphony, William McLaughlin (01-06-1990)
Symphony(s) IV "The Ghost Bus to Eldorado"
  The Billboard Round-up, Balck Ice, DArk Wing, The Ghost Bus to Eldorado
    Minnesota Orch, DAvid Zinman (05-29-1992)
Symphony(s) V "Native Dancer
  Dance of the Ohms and Amps, Hard Hat, Harbor Nocturne, Seed Singer
    Tulsa Philharmonic, Bernard Rubenstein (unkown date of performance)
Concert Music for Piano and Orchestra
  Dennis Russell Davies, San Francisco SO, Eric Stokes (12-03-1982)

 

[Dundonnell]

I noticed that you still seemed to be without the Charles Jones Symphony No.6 so......

http://www.mediafire.com/?r5kjt88kerik6s4

Charles Jones(1931-)

Symphony No.6 "The Long Quest"(1969)

Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra(Benjamin Steinberg)

[guest145]

Vittorio Giannini (1903-1966)

The Medead (monodrama, 1960; after Euripides)
    in 4 movements

  Irene Jordan, soprano
  Detroit Symphony Orchestra
  Paul Paray, conductor

http://www.mediafire.com/?bdm7o5dyq6bo9

From a 1960s radio broadcast, never issued commercially. The music is preceded by a spoken introduction from the broadcast.

[jowcol]

William Bergsma,-- Paul Bunyan Suite


St. Louis Philharmonic
Russell Gerhart, conductor
(c. 1951)
Original source from Private Lacquer


From the collection of Karl Miller

http://www.mediafire.com/?cp2asg9atn5an6s

I've posted the Paul Bunyan Suite by William Bergsma, and this time, I did a search to see if anyone has posted it already.     I did  a bit of research and found a message board that said a lot more about this recording than I had expected to find.  (Most of this info, and the scans come from a  post by Bill Anderson)


The Paul Bunyan Suite was taken from Bergsma’s ballet score from 1939.  From what I gather, it has not been commercially recorded.

This recording is from a private lacquer  by the  St. Louis Philharmonic Society, an all volunteer orchestra that traces its history back to 1860. The conductor , Russell Gerhart, was active in St. Louis during the 1950’s, eventually becoming the Music Director of the Huntsville, AL Symphony from 1959 though 1971.

Anderson also posted scans of the original, which I’m reproducing below, and including in the file.



and



After this, we have the obligatory composer picture and Wikepedia Entry.



William Bergsma
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William Laurence Bergsma (April 1, 1921 – March 18, 1994) was an American composer.


After studying piano with his mother, a former opera singer, and then the viola, Bergsma moved on to study composition; his most significant teachers were Howard Hanson and Bernard Rogers. Bergsma attended Stanford University for two years (1938-40) before moving on to the Eastman School of Music, where he earned his bachelor's and master's degrees. In 1946 he accepted a position at Juilliard, where he remained until 1963, eventually holding such positions as chair of composition and from 1961-63, associate dean. In 1963 he moved on to the University of Washington, heading the music school until 1971, remaining a professor from then on after stepping down from the administrative post. In 1966 Bergsma founded the Contemporary Group at the University of Washington, which is an organization of composers and musicians who stage performances of new musical works and educate students and the public about contemporary music; the group remains active to this day. He is the recipient of two Guggenheim Fellowships, a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Students of Bergsma include composers Jack Behrens, Philip Glass, Karl Korte, and Robert Parris.

Bergsma's music is noted for its lyrical, contrapuntal qualities. Unlike many of his contemporaries, Bergsma rejected serialism in favor of a more conservative style, though one distinctly rooted in the 20th century. He eschewed the avant-garde—his obituary in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer describes him as having "never deserted tonality" and seeing "dozens of his former avant-garde colleagues returning to the fold"—though he did embrace aleatoric techniques later in his career.

He composed two operas, The Wife of Martin Guerre (1956) and The Murder of Comrade Sharik (1973), which are markedly different in style. The first is a somber tale of a 16th century French peasant's disappearance and return upon which he is suspected to be an impostor; the music is marked by dissonance which emphasizes the tension in the story, particularly in the final courtroom scene. The second is more lighthearted and comic; Bergsma wrote his own libretto after the story Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov, which involves a dog transforming into a citizen of 1920s Moscow as a result of a doctor's experiments. The partially-aleatoric orchestral writing is intended to be the voice of Stalin, and quotes from Carmen, La traviata and Don Giovanni for comedic effect. He was also a skillful composer of smaller works, including many chamber ensembles and solo piano pieces as well as orchestral writings.

Bergsma died in Seattle of a heart attack, at the age of 72.

[Schuylkill]

John Harbison
Symphony #4
Seattle SO/Gerard Schwarz
http://www.mediafire.com/?al3ls61e6hf6w6u
http://www.mediafire.com/?ub6m56qrryid3dl
http://www.mediafire.com/?01mhi8m1226o2vy
http://www.mediafire.com/?7wwklimxi4rq4u2
http://www.mediafire.com/?c429kd1bolfa1s8

[Dundonnell]

These items seem not to have been re-posted, so.........

Edna Frida Pietsch(1894-1982): Prelude and Fugue in G minor: University of Wisconsin Mills Music School Students:

http://www.mediafire.com/?nnj3egn03jp8mhr

Arthur Foote(1853-1937): Cello Concerto: Douglas Moore(cello) and the Rochester Symphony Orchestra/Jere Lantz

http://www.mediafire.com/?1inmvsvm76914k9

Harl McDonald(1899-1955):

"My Country at War": Philadelphia Orchestra/Eugene Ormandy

http://www.mediafire.com/?3d77f6e85zo3n2e

Children's Symphony: Philadelphia Orchestra/Eugene Ormandy

http://www.mediafire.com/?9r3145l96uzmare

http://www.mediafire.com/?5r0cxc4dcrwlncy

http://www.mediafire.com/?8iou2w3ohm7wdmk

http://www.mediafire.com/?vumc4obcylaw0mq

Elie Siegmeister(1909-91):

Sunday in Brooklyn(1946): NBC Symphony Orchestra/Efrem Kurtz

http://www.mediafire.com/?ny8fbe1s8t9fa0s

Horatio Parker(1863-1919):

Organ Concerto(1902): Colm Carey(organ) and the Ulster Orchestra(Nicholas Braithwaite):

http://www.mediafire.com/?k8vadno3sl3nzv0

[jowcol]

Music of Elie Seigmeister


From the collection of Karl Miller

Elie Seigmeister Symphony 8
Albany Symphony Orchestra
Julius Hegyi, Conductor
1989
Private recording of live performance.

http://www.mediafire.com/?rntkka12eb1963p

Elie Seigmeister, Violin Concerto
Cho-Liang Lin, Violin
Oakland Symphony Orchestra
Richard Buckley, conductor
Jan 31, 1985
Radio Broadcast

http://www.mediafire.com/?4s0f8lxjs5xl7xa


Wikipedia Entry:

Elie Siegmeister (b. January 15, 1909, New York City – March 10, 1991, Manhasset, New York) was an American composer, educator and author.

His varied musical output showed his concern with the development of an authentic American musical vocabulary. Jazz, blues and folk melodies and rhythms are frequent themes in his many song cycles, his nine operas, his eight symphonies, and his many choral, chamber, and solo works. His 37 orchestral works have been performed by leading orchestras throughout the world under such conductors as Arturo Toscanini, Leopold Stokowski, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Lorin Maazel, and Sergiu Comissiona. He also composed for Hollywood (notably, the film score of They Came to Cordura, starring Gary Cooper and Rita Hayworth, 1959) and Broadway ("Sing Out, Sweet Land," 1944, book by Walter Kerr).

His Western Suite was premiered by Toscanini and the NBC Symphony Orchestra during a broadcast concert on November 25, 1945, in NBC Studio 8-H. Maurice Abravanel and the Utah Symphony Orchestra later made a stereo recording of the music, which incorporates familiar cowboy tunes and garnered him many black friends. Biographer Mortimer Frank said Toscanini's premiere (preserved on transcription discs) is a remarkable performance led by a conductor whose roots went not to the Old West but the Parma conservatory.[1]

Siegmeister wrote a number of important books on music, among them "Treasury of American Song" (Knopf, 1940–43, text coauthored with Olin Downs, music arranged by Siegmeister), second edition revised and enlarged (Consolidated Music Publishers); "The Music Lover's Handbook" (William Morrow, 1943; Book-of-the-Month Club selection), revised and expanded as "The New Music Lover's Handbook" (1973); and the two-volume "Harmony and Melody" (Wadsworth, 1985), which was widely adopted by college and conservatory curricula. In 1960, Siegmeister also recorded and released an instructional album of music, Invitation to Music, on Folkways Records, on which he discusses the fundamentals of music.

From 1977 until his death, he served on the Board of Directors of ASCAP and chaired its Symphony and Concert Committee. Among his signal achievements, he was composer-in-residence at Hofstra University 1966-76, having organized and conducted the Hofstra Symphony Orchestra; established 1971 and chaired the Council of Creative Artists, Libraries, and Museums; and initiated 1978 the Kennedy Center's National Black Music competition. In 1939, he organized the American Ballad Singers, pioneers in the folk music renaissance whom he conducted for eight years in performances throughout the United States. He was the winner of numerous awards and commissions, among them those of the Guggenheim, Ford, and Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundations, the Library of Congress, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the USIA.

Siegmeister earned a B.A. cum laude at the age of 18 from Columbia University, where he had studied music theory with Seth Bingham. He studied conducting with Albert Stoessel at the Juilliard School and counterpoint with Wallingford Riegger. He was among the numerous American composers, including Aaron Copland and Virgil Thomson, who were students of the influential teacher Nadia Boulanger in Paris. The best known of his own students was Stephen Albert (1941–92), winner of a 1985 Pulitzer Prize for music. Other students included clarinetist Naomi Drucker and composers Michael Jeffrey Shapiro, Daniel Dorff, Leonard Lehrman, Herbert Deutsch, Joseph Pehrson, and Grammy-winner Jack Gallagher.

[jowcol]

Terry Riley: In C (4 Versions)

Four versions of In C found in non-commercial versions on the Internet.

1.  In C Excerpt
 from Rites of Summer Concert, July 3, 2011
Led by Jed Distler (toy piano), Corey Dargel and Mellissa Hughes (vocals); Peter Flin (accordion); Caleb Burhans (melodica);  Gene Pritsker (electric guitar), and others.

Audio taken from portions posted on YouTube. 

2.  In C Full version
William Patterson University New Music Ensemble
Led by Peter Jarvis
November 30. 2009
Audio taken from portions of video  posted on YouTube by Peter Jarvis, video recorded by David Saperstein.

3-5:  Full version with radio intro and outro from the Small World Podcast. 
Freeform Ensemble, Led by "Bazooka Joe"
http://www.podfeed.net/episode/small+WORLD+Studio+Sessions+Terry+Rileys+In+C/477771

6.  Excerpt (Doom Version)
by the group Orobous is Broken
Free download offered by group.


All of these came form internet sources, and to the best of my knowledge, had been posted by the owners, and are not commercially available.

I have also included the score  as part of the download, which the composer has made freely available.

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?0pg4cq3giddp507

[lescamil]

Steven Stucky
Symphony (19:31)
(world premiere performance)


Los Angeles Philharmonic
Gustavo Dudamel, conductor

Walt Disney Concert Hall
Los Angeles, California
September 30, 2012


KUSC.org webstream, MP3 320



http://www.mediafire.com/?l61vd30rn67qb6r

[Dundonnell]

Reposts:

Robert Sanders:

Little Symphony No.2(1953)-Louisville Orchestra/Robert Whitney:

http://www.mediafire.com/?o114jfw9z2384k3

Violin Concerto(1935)-Jacques Gordon(violin) and the Eastman-Rochester Symphony Orchestra(Howard Hanson):

http://www.mediafire.com/?qzb53gynuyzt5gf

Saturday Night(1938)- American Recording Orchestra/Max Schonherr:

http://www.mediafire.com/?phmf75qr7qta2lx

[Dundonnell]

Reposts:

Brenton Tuthill:

Clarinet Concerto(1949): Ignatius Geriuss(clarinet) and the Brevard Festival Orchestra/Thor Johnson

http://www.mediafire.com/?j4kmn9452d1yo73

Concerto for Double Bass and Winds(1962): Manhattan School of Music Orchestra/Paul Simon

http://www.mediafire.com/?x692orekzt1e6g0

Rhapsody "Come Seven": American Recording Society Orchestra/Max Scoenherr)

http://www.mediafire.com/?919ht589t2o4rd2

[fr8nks]

Wells Hively  (1902-1969)

Icarus  (1961)

Polish National Radio Orchestra
Vohdan Wodiczko, Conductor

CRI LP SD 254

http://www.mediafire.com/?aub3l5u989o6o64

[Jim]

Elliott Carter: A Symphony of Three Orchestras
BBC Symphony Orchestra /David Atherton
30 July 1979 - Prom Concert

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?pz957423dr4sr04

[jowcol]

Music of Gardner Read #1

This collection of music has  been pulled together  from several private collections and radio broadcasts by Karl Miller , who has also applied a large amount of pitch collection and other restoration.  Please see the Downloads discussion section for a detailed discussion.

I've created a mediafire folder for all six downloadable files, and a copy of Karl's notes at:


http://www.mediafire.com/?whal7ze76g76e


To the best of my knowledge, none of these recordings are commercially available. 


Music of Gardner Read #1
 
Symphony No.1, Op.30(incomplete)(1934-36)
1. Lento Mistico-Allegro molto deciso;
2. Largo e molto espressivo;
3. Allegro Vivace;
4. Allegro feroce (portion)
New York Philharmonic/Sir John Barbirolli
[4 November 1937]

Symphony No.2, Op.45 (1940-42)
5. Presto asssai e molto feroce;
6. Adagio;
7. Largamente – Allegro Risoluto e Molto
Energico
(alternate tempi indications)Presto assai e molto feroce; Adagio e molto mesto;
Allegro frenetico.
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Composer, conductor
[27 November 1943]-First performance

8-10 Same source recording with different noise reduction applied
(both from the collection of Paul Snook)
 

 
 
Music of Gardner Read #2
 
1Commentary

Symphony No.3, Op.75 (1946-48)
2. Introduction and Passacaglia;
3. Scherzo;
4. Chorale and Fugue
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
William Steinberg, conductor
[2 March 1962]-First performance

5. Commentary
6-11. The Temptation of St. Anthony, Op.56 (1940-47)
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Composer, conductor
[19 March 1954]
(both from the collection of Paul Snook)

12Commentary
13- 15.  Pennsylvaniana Suite, Op.67 (1946-47)
I. Dunlap's Creek, II. I'm a Beggar, III. John Riley
Pittsburgh Symphony
Loren Maazel, conductor
[12/14 April 1996]
 

Music of Gardner Read #3
 
Symphony No.3, Op.75 (1946-48)
1. Introduction and Passacaglia;
2. Scherzo;
3. Chorale and Fugue
National Gallery Orchestra
Richard Bales, conductor
[27 May 1979]
4. Commentary

5. Commentary (Gardner Read and Arthur Cohn
6. First Overture, Op.58 (1943)
Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra/Guy Fraser Harrison
[13 February 1947]

7.  Commentary
8. Threnody, Op.66 (1946)
George Hambrecht, flute
Eastman Rochester Symphony/Howard Hanson,
[12 May 1949]

9. Commentary
10. Soundpiece for Brass and Percussion, Op.82
Cincinnati Brass Ensemble/Ernest Glover
[15 November 1950]

11/12Commentary

13. Prelude and Toccata, Op.43 (1936-37)
Pittsburgh Symphony/Fritz Reiner
[2 November 1945]
14. Commentary
(from the collection of Edward McMahan)
 
 
Music of Gardner Read #4
 
The Prophet, Op.110
1-12: Prologue: The Coming of the Ship; On Love; On Marriage; On Children 
II O Joy and Sorrow; On Reason and Passion; On Pain 
III On Teaching; On Beauty; On Death;
Epilogue, The Farewell,
Text by Gibran
William Cavness, narr.; Eunice Alberts, Mac Morgan, soloists
Boston University Chorus and Orchestra
Composer, conducting
[23 February 1977]
(from the Pizer collection)
 

Music of Gardner Read #5
 
1. Arioso Elegiaca, Op.91 (1950-51)
Zimbler String Sinfonietta
[8 April 1953]
(from the collection of Bret Johnson]

2Commentary
3. Night Flight, Op.44
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor
[16/18 April 1970]

4. Commentary
5. Concerto for Cello and Orchestra, Op.55 (1939-45)
Barry Sills, cello
New Haven Symphony Orchestra/Eric Kunzel
[14 October 1975]-First performance
(from the collection of Paul Snook)
 

 
 
Music of Gardner Read #6
 
1. Prelude and Toccata, Op.43 (1936-37)
National Gallery Orchestra/Richard Bales
[21 March 1976]
2. Commentary

3. Commentary
4. Prelude and Toccata, Op.43 (1936-37)
Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra/Fabien Sevitzky
[7 January 1943]
(from the collection of Fred Fellars)

5 -7.  Pennsylvaniana Suite, Op.67 (1946-47)
I. Dunlap's Creek, II. I'm a Beggar, III. John Riley
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra/Fritz Reiner
[21 November 1947]
(from the collection of Paul Snook)

8.  Dance of the Locomotives, Op.57a
Boston Pops/Arthur Fiedler
[20 May 1978]
(from the collection of Paul Snook)
 


 

[jowcol]

Symphonies 4 and 5 by David Van Vactor


1. Symphony No. 5 (1976)
A symphony written for the Bicentennial, and featuring the Vactor family’s roots in the revolutionary war.
Knoxville Symphony Orchestra/ Arpad Joo
World premiere, private recording.

2-4:  Symphony No.4 “Walden”
Maryville College Choir
Knoxville Symphony Orchestra
Premiere, Conducted by Composer, private recording of performance.

From the collection of Karl Miller

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?zzcemcrkakay7w9