1 volume (34 unnumbered pages) : color illustrations ; 30 cm. + 1 sound disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
Table of Contents
Slice for Saint Ursula (Excerpt) Bachianas Brasileiras no. 5 /music by Heitor Villa-Lobos, poetry by Ruth V. Correa & Manoel Bandeira Akhmatova songs /music by John Tavener, poetry by Anna Akhmatova Three songs after Emily Dickinson /music by William Sydeman, poetry by Emily Dickinson Epithalamion /music by Luna Pearl Woolf, poetry by Richard Crashaw Child lived /music by John Tavener, poetry by Mother Thekla Ode to the Lemon /improvisation by Eileen Clark & Matt Haimovitz, poetry by Pablo Neruda Slice for Saint Ursula /music & poetry by Hildegard von Bingen.
Description
"Etchings by Michael Kuch, musical performances by Eileen Clark, soprano, Matt Haimovitz, 'cello"--Leaf [3]. Song texts in English and in Latin, Portuguese, or Russian with English translations. "The Oxingale Press produced its inaugural publication, Lemons descending, in the fall of the year two thousand. Luna Pearl Woolf & Matt Haimovitz of the Oxingale Press collaborated with Michael Kuch of the Double Elephant Press in the conception & design of the book ... edition of seventy along with five hors commerce ..."--Colophon. Issued in clamshell case. Compact disc in special recessed pocket inside case. Music recorded: Palmer, Mass., "in the year preceding April 2000."
Local Note
Photographed and posted with permission of the artist. Skidmore has copy no. 52.