An Entity of Type: musical work, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org:8891

Ancient Voices of Children is a musical composition written in 1970 by the American composer George Crumb. The work was given the subtitle "A Cycle of Songs on Texts by Federico García Lorca." It is scored for soprano, boy soprano, oboe, mandolin, harp, amplified piano (and toy piano), and percussion (three players). It was commissioned by the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation.

Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • Ancient Voices of Children is a musical composition written in 1970 by the American composer George Crumb. The work was given the subtitle "A Cycle of Songs on Texts by Federico García Lorca." It is scored for soprano, boy soprano, oboe, mandolin, harp, amplified piano (and toy piano), and percussion (three players). It was commissioned by the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation. The piece premiered at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., on October 31, 1970, as part of the Coolidge Foundation's 14th Festival of Chamber Music. The first performers were the Contemporary Chamber Ensemble, which featured Gilbert Kalish (piano), Jan DeGaetani (mezzo-soprano), and Michael Dash (boy soprano). The debut recording, produced by Nonesuch Records in 1971, features the same performers as the premiere performance. This release sold more than 70,000 units; and has become one of the best selling recordings in 20th century Classical Music. (en)
  • "Давні голоси дітей" (Ancient voices of Children) - твір американського композитора Джорджа Крамба, що був замовлений Фондом Елізабет Спраг Кулідж (Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation) і написаний та вперше виконаний у 1970 році в будівлі бібліотеки Конгресу, що у штаті Вашингтон, як частина 14-го фестивалю камерної музики імені Кулідж (Coolidge Foundation's 14th Festival of Chamber Music). Першими виконавцями твору Крама став Камерний ансамбль сучасної музики, разом із Ґлібертом Каліш (Gilbert Kalish) - (фортепіано), Ян де Ґаетані (Jan DeGaetani) - (мецо-сопрано), Мішель Даш (Michael Dash) - (дитяче сопрано). (uk)
dbo:wikiPageExternalLink
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 8446837 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 4675 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 1102614177 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:composer
dbp:language
  • Spanish (en)
dbp:movements
  • 5 (xsd:integer)
dbp:name
  • Ancient Voices of Children (en)
dbp:scoring
dbp:text
  • poems by Federico García Lorca (en)
dbp:type
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dcterms:subject
gold:hypernym
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • Ancient Voices of Children is a musical composition written in 1970 by the American composer George Crumb. The work was given the subtitle "A Cycle of Songs on Texts by Federico García Lorca." It is scored for soprano, boy soprano, oboe, mandolin, harp, amplified piano (and toy piano), and percussion (three players). It was commissioned by the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation. (en)
  • "Давні голоси дітей" (Ancient voices of Children) - твір американського композитора Джорджа Крамба, що був замовлений Фондом Елізабет Спраг Кулідж (Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation) і написаний та вперше виконаний у 1970 році в будівлі бібліотеки Конгресу, що у штаті Вашингтон, як частина 14-го фестивалю камерної музики імені Кулідж (Coolidge Foundation's 14th Festival of Chamber Music). (uk)
rdfs:label
  • Ancient Voices of Children (en)
  • Давні голоси дітей (uk)
owl:sameAs
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:homepage
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
is dbo:wikiPageRedirects of
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License