#peter lieberson

[princesssarisa]

Opera on YouTube, Part 2

Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro)

Glyndebourne Festival Opera, 1973 (Knut Skram, Ileana Cotrubas, Kiri Te Kanawa, Benjamin Luxon; conducted by John Pritchard; English subtitles)

Jean-Pierre Ponnelle studio film, 1976 (Hermann Prey, Mirella Freni, Kiri Te Kanawa, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau; conducted by Karl Böhm; English subtitles) – Acts I and II, Acts III and IV

Tokyo National Theatre, 1980 (Hermann Prey, Lucia Popp, Gundula Janowitz, Bernd Weikl; conducted by Karl Böhm; Japanese subtitles)

Théâtre du Châtelet, 1993 (Bryn Terfel, Alison Hagley, Hillevi Martinpelto, Rodney Gilfry; conducted by John Eliot Gardiner; Italian subtitles)

Glyndebourne Festival Opera, 1994 (Gerald Finley, Alison Hagley, Renée Fleming, Andreas Schmidt; conducted by Bernard Haitink; English subtitles)

Zürich Opera House, 1996 (Carlos Chaussón, Isabel Rey, Eva Mei, Rodney Gilfry; conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt; English subtitles)

Berlin State Opera, 2005 (Lauri Vasar, Anna Prohaska, Dorothea Röschmann, Ildebrando d'Arcangelo; conducted by Gustavo Dudamel; French subtitles)

Salzburg Festival, 2006 (Ildebrando d'Arcangelo, Anna Netrebko, Dorothea Röschmann, Bo Skovhus; conducted by Nikolas Harnoncourt; English subtitles) – Acts I and II, Acts III and IV

Teatro all Scala, 2006 (Ildebrando d'Arcangelo, Diana Damrau, Marcella Orasatti Talamanca, Pietro Spagnoli; conducted by Gérard Korsten; English and Italian subtitles)

Salzburg Festival, 2015 (Adam Plachetka, Martina Janková, Anett Fritsch, Luca Pisaroni; conducted by Dan Ettinger; no subtitles)

Tosca

Carmine Gallone studio film, 1956 (Franca Duval dubbed by Maria Caniglia, Franco Corelli, Afro Poli dubbed by Giangiacomo Guelfi; conducted by Oliviero de Fabritiis; no subtitles)

Gianfranco de Bosio film, 1976 (Raina Kabaivanska, Plácido Domingo, Sherrill Milnes; conducted by Bruno Bartoletti; English subtitles)

Metropolitan Opera, 1978 (Shirley Verrett, Luciano Pavarotti, Cornell MacNeil; conducted by James Conlon; no subtitles)

Arena di Verona, 1984 (Eva Marton, Jaume Aragall, Ingvar Wixell; conducted by Daniel Oren; no subtitles)

Teatro Real de Madrid, 2004 (Daniela Dessí, Fabio Armiliato, Ruggero Raimondi; conducted by Maurizio Benini; English subtitles)

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 2011 (Angela Gheorghiu, Jonas Kaufmann, Bryn Terfel; conducted by Antonio Pappano; English subtitles)

Finnish National Opera, 2018 (Ausrinė Stundytė, Andrea Carè, Tuomas Pursio; conducted by Patrick Fournillier; English subtitles)

Teatro alla Scala 2019 (Anna Netrebko, Francesco Meli, Luca Salsi; conducted by Riccardo Chailly; Hungarian subtitles)

Vienna State Opera, 2019 (Sondra Radvanovsky, Piotr Beczala, Thomas Hampson; conducted by Marco Armiliato; English subtitles)

Ópera de las Palmas, 2024 (Erika Grimaldi, Piotr Beczala, George Gagnidze; conducted by Ramón Tebar; no subtitles)

Don Giovanni

Salzburg Festival, 1954 (Cesare Siepi, Otto Edelmann, Elisabeth Grümmer, Lisa della Casa; conducted by Wilhelm Furtwängler; English subtitles)

Giacomo Vaccari studio film, 1960 (Mario Petri, Sesto Bruscantini, Teresa Stich-Randall, Leyla Gencer; conducted by Francesco Molinari-Pradelli; no subtitles)

Salzburg Festival, 1987 (Samuel Ramey, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Julia Varady; conducted by Herbert von Karajan; no subtitles)

Teatro alla Scala, 1987 (Thomas Allen, Claudio Desderi, Edita Gruberova, Ann Murray; conducted by Riccardo Muti; English subtitles)

Peter Sellars studio film, 1990 (Eugene Perry, Herbert Perry, Dominique Labelle, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson; conducted by Craig Smith; English subtitles)

Teatro Comunale di Ferrara, 1997 (Simon Keenlyside, Bryn Terfel, Carmela Remigio, Anna Caterina Antonacci; conducted by Claudio Abbado; no subtitles) – Act I, Act II

Zürich Opera, 2000 (Rodney Gilfry, László Polgár, Isabel Rey, Cecilia Bartoli; conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt; English subtitles)

Festival Aix-en-Provence, 2002 (Peter Mattei, Gilles Cachemaille, Alexandra Deshorties, Mirielle Delunsch; conducted by Daniel Harding; no subtitles)

Teatro Real de Madrid, 2006 (Carlos Álvarez, Lorenzo Regazzo, Maria Bayo, Sonia Ganassi; conducted by Victor Pablo Pérez; English subtitles)

Festival Aix-en-Provence, 2017 (Philippe Sly, Nahuel de Pierro, Eleonora Burratto, Isabel Leonard; conducted by Jérémie Rohrer; English subtitles)

Madama Butterfly

Mario Lanfranchi studio film, 1956 (Anna Moffo, Renato Cioni; conducted by Oliviero de Fabritiis; no subtitles)

Jean-Pierre Ponnelle studio film, 1974 (Mirella Freni, Plácido Domingo; conducted by Herbert von Karajan; English subtitles)

New York City Opera, 1982 (Judith Haddon, Jerry Hadley; conducted by Christopher Keene; English subtitles)

Frédéric Mitterand film, 1995 (Ying Huang, Richard Troxell; conducted by James Conlon; English subtitles)

Arena di Verona, 2004 (Fiorenza Cedolins, Marcello Giordani; conducted by Daniel Oren; Spanish subtitles)

Sferisterio Opera Festival, 2009 (Raffaela Angeletti, Massimiliano Pisapia; conducted by Daniele Callegari; no subtitles)

Vienna State Opera, 2017 (Maria José Siri, Murat Karahan; conducted by Jonathan Darlington; no subtitles)

Wichita Grand Opera, 2017 (Yunnie Park, Kirk Dougherty; conducted by Martin Mazik; English subtitles)

Teatro San Carlo, 2019 (Evgenia Muraveva, Saimir Pirgu; conducted by Gabriele Ferro; no subtitles)

Rennes Opera House, 2022 (Karah Son, Angelo Villari; conducted by Rudolf Piehlmayer; French subtitles)

[turangalila]

George Frideric Handel Duetto "Son nata a lagrimar" Giulio Cesare in Egitto, HWV 17 [London: Cluer & B. Creake, 1724]

Duetto (Cornelia, poi Sesto)

Son nata a lagrimar/Son nato a sospirar e il dolce mio conforto, ah, sempre piangerò.

Se il fato ci tradì, sereno e lieto dì mai più sperar potrò. [Nicola Francesco Haym, after Giacomo Francesco Bussani, 1677/85]

_ Recital: Lorraine Hunt Lieberson at Ravinia. Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Mezzo-Soprano. Drew Minter, Counter Tenor. Peter Serkin, Piano. (2009, Harmonia Mundi - 907500)

[berezina]

On Monday I went to a memorial service for poor Jonathan Lieberson. He finally, at forty, lost his fight against AIDS. It's another tragic culling of a man so many thought was special. His memorial reflected it. In front of me was a freshly face-lifted Jackie O in a white schoolgirl shirt and black skirt, along with the Duchins, Brooke Astor, Richard Avedon, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion, Susan Sontag, the actor Peter Eyre, Diane von Furstenberg, etc. etc. And of course a stricken Bob Silvers of The New York Review of Books, who always saw Jonathan as his successor. It was Bob who choreographed the short tributes by the Nobel laureate Torsten Wiesel, Shelley Wanger, Elizabeth Hardwick, Jason Epstein, and Brooke Astor. As at all memorial services, the most interesting things were what was unsaid. How beneath the array of speakers' claims for his talents as a philosopher, editor, and critic, 'his essay on Wagner that could stand next to Shaw's', Jonathan was ultimately a thwarted soul, his verbal brilliance undermined by his incapacitating self-hatred that perhaps came from a distaste for his own homosexuality, which he always kept implacably hidden. It's tragic that he felt such shame. He never uttered the word 'AIDS' to anyone, and the obituary said 'cardiac arrest'. In the end it's the bitterest irony that he had a slow, agonizing, and public death that finally proclaimed to everyone what he had kept hidden for so long.

~Tina Brown [buy]

[nonesuchrecords]

It was 15 years ago today—Lorraine Hunt Lieberson's recording of her husband Peter Lieberson's Neruda Songs was released on Nonesuch, not long after her untimely passing. The composer had written the work, based on Pablo Neruda's poems, for his wife. You can hear the album, the Grammy winner for Best Classical Vocal Performance, recorded in concert with Boston Symphony Orchestra, here.

"One of the most extraordinarily affecting artistic gifts ever created by one lover to another." —Washington Post

Design by Barbara de Wilde. Photo by Richard Avedon.

[marxsound]

some words about music-the neruda songs...

peter lieberson set the neruda poems to music for his wife lorraine  to sing. she had an aggressive cancer and they barley got the pieces recorded live w/ the boston symphony before she got too sick to go on... by the the time the cd came out (2005 or so ) she was dead ..... but the songs are well made and i*m glad to see that other singers have taken them up-hence the sarah connelly recordings from london and i might find more for U all  cheers

[churchofsatannews]

Vox Satanae - Episode #556: 16th-20th Centuries - Week of 2022 November 14

Vox Satanae – Episode #556: 16th-20th Centuries – Week of 2022 November 14

Vox Satanae – Episode #556 16th-20th Centuries We hear works by William Byrd, Giovanni Legrenzi, Johann David Heinichen, Joseph Touchemoulin, Adolf Fredrik Lindblad, Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, and Peter Lieberson. 150 Minutes – Week of 2022 November 14 Stream Vox Satanae Episode 556. Download Vox Satanae Episode 556.

[thebowerypresents]

Teen Play Their Final Show as a Band at Music Hall of Williamsburg

Teen – Music Hall of Williamsburg – October 30, 2019

“Thanks everyone, we’re Teen. We were Teen?” said Teen singer Kristina “Teeny” Lieberson last night at Music Hall of Williamsburg to an audience of friends and fans, questioning her verb tenses and just three songs away from wrapping up the band’s final concert ever. For a band that is (was?) comprised of three siblings, Kristina, Katherine and Lizzie Lieberson, Teen’s almost 10-year run is a pretty remarkable feat. “My mother wanted me to say this, should I even say it? We’d like to dedicate this song to our original producer, the producer … of children, our mom,” said Kristina, groaning her way through the not-bad dad joke about moms. They more seriously dedicated the final song to their father, the late classical composer Peter Lieberson. 

But given the somberness of the occasion, the bulk of the performance felt more celebratory than sad, with the band fleshing out songs from Teen’s catalog with the help of many friends adding accompaniments, including trumpet, saxophone and backup singing. The added oomph brought Teen’s pop melodies to maximalist extremes. “Another Man’s Woman” closed out with horns blaring, keyboards circling and all three sisters harmonizing the repeated chorus. “It’s our last fucking show, we can do what the fuck we want,” joked Kristina, restarting the Prince-y tune “Putney” after fighting with the finicky backing track, ultimately prevailing without it. “Tokyo” was a favorite of the night, complete with its harmonies, pleasant surprises of shifting rhythms, fuzzy keyboard melodies coming from all directions and backing vocals filling out the bliss blitz. “Pretend,” the closing number off their latest album, Good Fruit, swung the other direction, a sparse trasck carried by Katherine Lieberson’s delicate vocals.

“Free Time” brought back a fast pace, the poppy jam featuring a maelstrom of ’80s-era keyboard tones and Kristina theatrically pantomiming her way through the lyrics. “Better,” Teen’s final song as a band, sounded like a victory lap with its triumphant chorus of “I’ll do it better than anybody else.” “It’s such a joy to play music with people you love,” said Kristina, referring to band members both past and present over the group’s tenure. The night ended with “Roses & Wine,” which Kristina wrote before Teen were officially a band. “Will you be missed when you’re gone?” the song asks. With the band now a day into retirement, the answer here is already yes. —Dan Rickershauser | @D4nRicks

Photo courtesy of Andie Diemer | issuu.com/andiediemer/docs/portfolio

[aschenblumen]

Atmen, du unsichtbares Gedicht! Immerfort um das eigne Sein rein eingetauscher Weltraum. Gegenwicht in dem ich mich rythmisch ereigne.

[carovisetto]

Lorraine Hunt Lieberson as Donna Elvira in Peter Seller’s Don Giovanni, 1991

[therobertfrasergang]

Clockwork Orange letter, signed by Robert Fraser, 1967-68

This item was up for auction at Christie's in 2014. Robert Fraser signed as Strawberry "Bob", which was Keith Richards' nickname for him, apparently due to his penchant for pink suits.

Christie's Description: "A rare signed petition protesting against the selection of David Hemmings over Mick Jagger for the lead role of Alex in A Clockwork Orange, circa 1967-1968, the five line typescript document on black bordered mourning paper addressed to screenwriter Terry Southern, telling him: We, The Undersigned, Do Hereby Protest With Extreme Vehemence As Well As Shattered Illusions (in You) The Preference Of Devid Hemmings Above ***** Mick Jagger ***** In The Role Of Alex In 'The Clockwork Orange, the document signed in black felt pen at the foot by Paul McCartney, George Harrison, John Lennon and Ringo Starr, the four Beatles' signatures above that of Anita Pallenberg, signed as Anita ("the heater") [Pallenberg's signature in ballpoint pen faded] and close to Donald Cammell's signature Don the Drom and his caricature of a camel; fourteen other signatures on the document include: Peter Blake, Jann Blake, Marianne Faithfull, James Fox, Robert Fraser who inscribed a comment HEAR! HEAR! and signed as Strawberry "Bob", David Cammell, Sandy Lieberson and Christian Marquard, 1p. -- 13x7in. (33x17.9cm.)"

Christie's Essay: "According to screenwriter Terry Southern it was photographer Michael Cooper who first interested him in Anthony Burgess' futuristic novel A Clockwork Orange. It was also Cooper who was behind the petition in this lot. Southern said ...Michael turned me onto 'A Clockwork Orange' and so I took an option on the book and was going to write a screenplay. Then David Hemmings came out with 'Blow Up' and the agency said "We'll package this thing with David Hemmings because he's hot". Michael [Cooper] just freaked out and said "Mick Jagger has got to play this part". He drew up a letter edged in black which said: "We the undersigned hereby insist that Mick Jagger play the part". It was signed by all the Beatles, Marianne Faithfull and Robert Fraser...

Terry Southern's screenplay adaptation of Burgess' novel was rejected by the British Board of Film Censors in May 1967, the board declared that: ..any film of this script would not be shown in Britain.. It was at this point that Paramount, the studio backing Southern pulled out, and Southern gave the book to Kubrick who just put [the book] to one side and forgot about it for a year and a half....

Andrew Loog Oldham, the Rolling Stones' manager in the mid-sixties, was also keen to make a film of Burgess' book with the Stones playing the violent quartet led by the hero Alex, who was to be played by Mick Jagger. In his book The Stanley Kubrick Companion, author James Howard records that at one point, Andy Warhol and David Bailey co-owned the screen rights to the book [presumably Warhol and Bailey's interest in it post-dated that of Paramount and Southern], and had wanted to use the Rolling Stones.... a project which folded when the group reportedly 'demanded exhorbitant fees' and the rights were subsequently allowed to lapse. Stanley Kubrick, who had been given a copy of the book by Terry Southern during the filming of 2001: A Space Odyssey in 1967, eventually took the project on, but was put off by...the reputation of decadence that Jagger already carried...and opted instead for Malcolm McDowell whose dynamic acting debut in Lindsay Anderson's 1968 film If... had impressed him.

The inclusion of so many names on this petition also associated with the film Performance suggest that its date is closer to 1968 when work first began on the film. Donald Cammell directed Performance with Nicolas Roeg and is also credited as the screenwriter. James Fox played one of the leading roles - Chas Devlin, and Anita Pallenberg played Pherber. Sandy Lieberson is credited as the film's producer. A number of those who have signed the document are also linked with another momentous artistic production of the late 1960s, The Beatles album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band released in 1967. The Beatles' and Stones' mutual friend, art gallery owner Robert Fraser signed the petition, as did Peter Blake, designer of the ground-breaking Sgt. Pepper album cover, who was introduced to Epstein and EMI by Fraser. Photographer Michael Cooper, who apparently devised the petition, also shot the Sgt. Pepper album cover."

Terry Southern, Michael Cooper, and many of the other signers were good friends of Fraser.

[th3-0bjectivist]

     So, this act caught me by complete surprise. I actually do a little (emphasis on little) research on these musical entries before I post them, and I had never actually heard of TEEN until a few weeks ago when this tune popped up randomly for me on Soundcloud. Algorithms are an interesting thing; sometimes they recommend things that are just right for you based on your listening/viewing history... other times they fail miserably. In this case I was connected to an all-woman band, and wouldn’t ya know it, I was subconsciously looking for an all-woman band to post this very week. Unfortunately, this is also a group with a very limited history, and they seem to have formed and fell apart all within the span of just about decade. The core of the band is comprised of three sisters who are all the daughters of American classical composer Peter Lieberson. Each having the blood of a virtuoso, they decided to start recording together in 2010, and released this track, Electric, along with their first full album in 2012, In Limbo. While their sound appears to change on every album they’ve released up until 2019, the music they create tends to gravitate around lo-fi, psychedelia and synth noises punctuated by skilled guitar and drum work. They’re a good example of what happens when familial bonds create chemistry rather than infighting, because, as we all know blood can be hard to work with all the time. Their final show was on 10/30/2019 in Brooklyn, NY, and near as I can figure they all just suffered from burn out. But their tunes are eternal, so smash play and enjoy some rare music created by a defunct, but clearly very unique group of sisters who just wanted to create projects together for a little while. 

[mrepstein]

Brian Epstein’s Address & Telephone Book

A small leather bound pocket address and telephone book that was owned and used by Brian Epstein. The book dates to 1967 and it consists of pages of addresses and telephone numbers some of which are typed, some of which are in Epstein’s hand and some which have been added by hand on his behalf. // (click HERE to view more pages from the book)

The book contains a total of 404 entries - a selection of them are listed below:

A

ATV Ltd 

ABC Television Ltd 

AIR London Ltd. 

Tom Arnold Ltd 

Neil Aspinall 

Artistes Car Hire 

Annabels [nightclub] 

Alexander’s Restaurant 

Ashley Steiner Famous [talent agency] 

Al Aronowitz 

Atlantic Records 

Eric Andersen 

Bob Anthony 

B

Bryce Hanmer & Co [accounting firm] 

Bedford, Okrent & Co 

BBC Television Centre 

BBC Broadcasting House 

Al Brodax 

Cilla Black 

Mr. & Mrs. Tony Barrow 

Mr. & Mrs Don Black 

Bryan Barrett 

Jack Barclay Ltd  [Bentley dealership] 

Peter Brown 

Mr. & Mrs. B. Bullough 

Mr. & Mrs J. Bullough 

Miss J. Balmer 

Mr. &. Mrs. Ivan Bennett 

Eric Burdon 

Francisco Bermudez 

Lionel Bart 

David Bailey 

Bag O’Nails 

Tony Barlow 

Ray Bartell 

Rodney Barnes 

Bruno One Restaurant 

Sid Bernstein 

Kenn Brodziak 

Leonard Bernstein 

Al Bennett 

Beverly Hills Hotel 

Brian Bedford 

Scotty Bower 

David Ballman 

Bob Bonis 

Bill Buist 

Arthur Buist 

C

Dr. Norman Cowan 

Curzon House Club 

Crockfords Club 

Clermont Club 

Cromwellian Club 

Paddy Chambers 

Radio Caroline 

Michael Codron 

Cap-Estel Le 

Mr. & Mrs. J. Cassen 

Columbia Pictures Ltd 

Eric Clapton 

Capitol Records Mexico 

Michael Cooper 

Roger Curtis 

Neil Christian 

Maureen Cleave 

Thomas Clyde 

Cash Box 

CBS Records Ltd 

Denny Cordell 

William Cavendish 

Caprice Restuarant 

David Charkham 

Capitol Records 

Columbia Broadcasting System 

Bob Crewe 

May Cunnell 

Car Hire Co. for Lincoln 

Dr. Kenneth Chesky 

Capitol Records (Voyle Gilmore) 

Irving E. Chezar 

Danny Cleary 

Bobby Colomby 

Bob Casper 

Andre Cadet 

D

Daily Express 

Disc & Music Echo 

Decca Records 

Bernard Delfont Ltd 

Bernard Delfont 

Noel Dixon 

Jimmy Douglas 

Chris Denning 

Simon Dee 

Rik Dane 

Dolly’s [nightclub] 

Hunter Davies 

Terry Doran 

Pat Doncaster 

Norrie Drummond 

Alan David 

John Dunbar 

Peter Dalton 

Kappy Ditson 

Robert Dunlap 

Robert L. David 

Diana Dors 

Ivor Davis 

Tom Dawes 

Brandon de Wilde 

Don Danneman 

E

Malcolm Evans 

Clive J. Epstein 

Mr. & Mrs. H. Epstein 

EMI Records Ltd 

EMI Studios 

Geoffrey Ellis 

Etoile Restaurant 

Tim Ellis 

Terry Eaton 

Kenny Everett 

John East 

Bob Eubanks 

Esther Edwards 

Ahmet Ertegun 

F

Alan Freeman 

David Frost 

Georgie Fame 

Robert Fraser 

Andre Fattacini 

Dan Farson 

Billy Fury 

Barry Finch 

Marianne Faithfull 

Robert Fitzpatrick 

Warren Frederikson 

John Fisher 

Danny Fields 

Francis Fiorino 

G

Dr. Geoffrey Gray 

Hamish Grimes 

Derek Grainger 

Rik Gunnell 

Rik Gunnell Agency Ltd 

Derrick Goodman & Co. 

Peter Goldman 

Christopher Gibbs 

David Garrick 

Geoffrey Grant 

Mick Green 

John P. Greenside 

Michael Gillet 

General Artists Corp. 

John Gillespie 

Voyle Gilmore 

George Greif 

Ren Grevatt 

Milton Goldman 

M. Goldstein 

Gary Grove 

Henry Grossman 

H

Mr. & Mrs. Berrell Hyman 

Doreen Hyman 

Mr. & Mrs. Basil J. Hyman 

Mrs. A. Hyman 

Steve Hardy 

H. Huntsman & Son Ltd 

Simon Hayes 

Frankie Howerd 

Henry Higgins 

Chris Hutchins 

Tony Howard 

Wendy Hanson 

Marty Himmel 

Casper Halpern

John Heska

Ricky Heiman

Joe Hunter

Ty Hargrove

Hullabaloo.

Walter Hofer

J

M.A. Jacobs & Son 

David Jacobs [lawyer] 

Dick James Music Ltd 

Mr. & Mrs. D. James 

Mick Jagger 

Brian Jones 

Michael Jeffries 

Drummond Jackson 

David Jacobs [d.j.] 

Brian Joyce 

Gerry Justice 

K

Gibson Kemp 

Johnathan King 

Mr. & Mrs Maurice Kinn 

Kingsway Recording Studios 

Ashley Kozac 

Kafetz Camera Ltd. 

Reg King 

Andrew Koritsas 

Ed Kenmore 

Walker Kundzicz 

John Kurland 

Murray Kauffman

L

Larry Lamb 

Martin Landau 

Kit Lambert 

Dick Lester 

Mr. & Mrs. Vic Lewis 

Tony Lynch 

Radio London 

Mike Leander 

John Lyndon 

Bernard Lee 

Kenny Lynch 

Denny Laine 

Lomax Alliance 

Ed Leffler 

David G. Lowe 

Richard W. Lean 

Goddard Lieberson 

Laurie Records 

Liberty Records 

London Records 

Alan Livingston

M

Melody Maker 

Peter Murray 

Keith Moon 

Mr. & Mrs. G. Martin 

Mr. & Mrs. Brian Matthew 

Midland Bank Limited 

Vyvienne Moynihan 

Gerry Marsden 

Ian Moody 

Michael McGrath 

Cathy McGowan 

Mr. & Mrs. J. McCartney 

Albert Marrion 

Robin Maughan 

Peter Maddok 

Gordon Mills 

Brian McEwan 

John Mendell Jnr. 

Marshall Migatz 

Fred Morrow 

Chruch McLaine 

Vincent Morrone 

Jeffrey Martin Co. 

Gavin Murrell 

Dean Martin 

Gordon B. McLendon 

Sal Mineo 

Scott Manley 

Bernard Mavnitte 

Verne Miller 

N

John Neville 

Joanne Newfield 

Tommy Nutter 

Francisco Neuner 

Tatsuji Nagasima 

New Musical Express 

NEMS Enterprises Ltd 

Graham Nash 

Nemperor Artists Ltd 

Louis Nizer 

Bob Nauss 

Gene Narmore 

O

George H. Ornstein 

Olympic Sound Studios 

A. L. Oldham 

Myles Osternak 

Roy Onsborg 

P

Col. Tom Parker 

Jerry Pam 

Plaza Hotel 

PAN AM. rep 

Bob Perlman 

Allen Pohju 

Robert H. Prech 

John Pritchard 

Prince Of Wales Theatre 

Don Paul 

Sean Phillips 

Jon Pertwee 

Ricki Pipe 

Dr. D. A. Pond 

David Puttnam 

David Puttnam Associates 

Tom Parr 

Harry Pinsker 

Kenneth Partridge 

Larry Parnes 

Priory Nursing Home 

Viv Prince 

Steve Paul 

R

Radnor Arms [pub] 

Leo Rost 

Keith Richard 

Record Mirror 

Dolly Robertson-Ward 

Charles Ross 

Rules Restuarant 

Marian Rainford 

Bobby Roberts 

Bill Rosado 

S

Vic Singh 

Speakeasy [club] 

Simon and Marijke 

Simon Shops 

Judith Symons 

Keith Skeel 

Tony Sharman 

Simon Scott 

Barrie Summers 

John Singleton 

Squarciafichi 

Don Short 

Dr. Walter Strach 

Walter Shenson 

John Sandoe Ltd 

Bobby Shafto 

Harry South 

Brian Sommerville 

Robert Stigwood

David Shaw 

Chris Stamp 

Aaron Schroeder 

Stephen, Jacques & Stephen [law firm] 

Leo Sullivan 

Gene Schwann 

Herb Schlosser 

Gary Smith 

Jim Stewart [co-founder, Stax Records] 

John Simon 

Jerry N. Schatzberg 

Lex Taylor 

Robert Shoot 

Lauren Stanton 

St. Regis Hotel 

Eric Spiros 

Howard Soloman 

T

Taft Limousine Corp 

[Sidney] Traxler (lawyer) 

T.W.A. Ken S. Fletcher [director, public relations, TWA] 

Derek & Joan Taylor 

T.W.A. (Victor Page) 

Martin Tempest 

Evelyn Taylor 

Twickenham Studios 

Kenneth Tynan 

Alistair Taylor 

F. T. Turner & Son Ltd. 

R. S. Taylor 

Michael Taylor 

George Tempest 

Norm Talbott 

U

United Artists Corp Ltd 

U.P.I. 

V

Klaus & Christine Voormann 

V.I.P. Travel Ltd 

W

Mark Warman 

Gary Walker 

Robert Whitaker 

Peter Watkins 

Peter Weldon 

Mrs. Freda Weldon 

Alan Warren 

Orson Welles 

Sir David Webster 

Alan Williams 

Dennis Wiley 

Terry Wilson 

Nathan Weiss 

Norman Weiss 

Gerry Wexler 

Y

Murial Young 

Bernice Young 

Z

Peter Zorcon 

[nonesuchrecords]

It was 20 years ago today: composer John Adams's nativity oratorio El Niño was released on Nonesuch. You can hear it here.

"Adams's most powerful and affecting and sublimely assured music." —Los Angeles Times

The recording, made during the world premiere performances at Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, features singers Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Dawn Upshaw, and Willard White. The libretto was compiled by Adams and his longtime collaborator Peter Sellars from pre-Christian and modern texts in English, Latin, and Spanish.

Design by John Heiden, SMOG. Cover art: 'Mujer de Mucha Enagua, PA’TI XICANA' (1999) by Yreina Cervantes

[marxsound]

Neruda Songs V. Amor, amor mio ~ Peter Lieberson; Lorraine Hunt Lieberso... there are full performances of this available on line if u want to hear all five

[thewildswan]

Georg Friedrich Händel: 'As with rosy' Irene's recitative and aria from "Theodora" interpreted by Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (comp. 1750; video perf. 1996). Production by Peter Sellars for Glyndebourne. Conducted by William Christie. Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment . From the collection of Gustavo Lanfranchi at youtube.

Ah! Whither should we fly, or fly from whom? The Lord is still the same, today, for ever, And his protection here, and everywhere. Though gath'ring round our destin'd heads The storm now thickens, and looks big with fate, Still shall thy servants wait on Thee, O Lord, And in thy saving mercy put their trust.

As with rosy steps the morn, Advancing, drives the shades of night, So from virtuous toil well-borne, Raise Thou our hopes of endless light. Triumphant saviour, Lord of day, Thou art the life, the light, the way! As with rosy steps the morn...