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Soundings; Joseph Schwantner and His Music

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Joseph Schwantner & His Music


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Series
Soundings
Program
Joseph Schwantner and His Music
Series Description

Four performance documentaries featuring award-winning composers. Each program features the composer working with musicians in rehearsal and in studio performances of several works, so that the viewer watches the process as the creative team moves toward a product. Series release date: 1986

Program Description

Documentary containing interview footage with the composer and narrated overview of his life and music. The piece focuses on the making of his composition New Morning for the World, which accompanies the words of Martin Luther King. Includes performances of his music recorded for this program.

Asset Type

Broadcast program

Media Type

Video

Subjects
Interviews
Documentaries and factual works
Music
Composers
Genres
Performance in a Studio
Documentary
Topics
Music
Contributors
Philharmonia, Eastman ()
Collage ()
Schwantner, Joseph C. ()
Efron, David ()
Citation
Chicago: “Soundings; Joseph Schwantner and His Music,” GBH Archives, accessed December 8, 2024, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_E8ED9270F64047E4BACF0D49A3E73F67.
MLA: “Soundings; Joseph Schwantner and His Music.” GBH Archives. Web. December 8, 2024. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_E8ED9270F64047E4BACF0D49A3E73F67>.
APA: Soundings; Joseph Schwantner and His Music. Boston, MA: GBH Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_E8ED9270F64047E4BACF0D49A3E73F67
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