RUTH ANDERSON+T.S. ELLIOT PRIVATE 10" AVANT-GARDE-RARE
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RUTH ANDERSON
The Hollow Men 10"
Private
Obscure private release possibly from the 60's featuring Ruth Anderson composing T.S. Elliot's the Hollow Men into a work for mixed voices and chamber orchestra.
Some info on the release: Obscure release, never seen again in a lifetime, released privately by the Ulysses S. Grant High School and presenting Ruth Anderson in a composition for mixed voices and chamber orchestra, possibly one of her earliest works before she turned herself to the electronic music medium. The work incorporates T.S. Elliot's "The Hollow Men". No info to be found anywhere on the internet about this release.
Ruth Anderson (born March 21, 1928 in Montana) is a composer, orchestrator, and flautist, whose music is influenced by her study of Zen. Retired from Hunter College in 1989, she lives in New York during the winter and in Montana during the summer.She is a, "respected electronic composer," whose works have been released on the Opus One label and Charles Amirkhanian's "pioneering" LP anthology New Music for Electronic and Recorded Media (1977). Her sound poem I Come Out of Your Sleep (revised and recorded on Sinopah 1997 XI) is constructed from speech sounds in Louise Bogan's poem "Little Lobelia." According to the composer "a very soft dynamic level is an integral component of this piece. It is important to listen to it in the way it was composed, near the threshold of hearing." (liner notes) Her collage piece SUM (State of the Union Message) is included on the Lesbian American Composers collection (1998 CRI: 780). SUM and DUMP (1970), also a sonic collage, are her best known pieces. She calls her student of Zen, begun in 1990, "a natural extension of my music," and cites as influential, especially on her interest in music and healing, composers Pauline Oliveros and Annea Lockwood. Anderson received degrees in flute and composition at the University of Washington and later studied with Darius Milhaud and Nadia Boulanger in the 1950s and with Vladimir Ussachevsky and Pril Smiley in the 1960s at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center. She wrote that after her exposure to tape manipulation she became open to the potential of, "all sounds...as material for music". She joined the staff at Hunter College (CUNY) in 1966 and created the electroacoustic music center there after being fired and rehired at the new Hunter College facilities in 1968.
Thomas Stearns Eliot (September 26, 1888 – January 4, 1965) was an Anglo-American poet, playwright, and literary critic, arguably the most important English-language poet of the 20th century. The Hollow Men appeared in 1925. For the critic Edmund Wilson, it marked "the nadir of the phase of despair and desolation given such effective expression in The Waste Land." It is Eliot's major poem of the late twenties. Similar to other work, its themes are overlapping and fragmentary: post-war Europe under the Treaty of Versailles (which Eliot despised: compare Gerontion); the difficulty of hope and religious conversion; and Eliot's failed marriage. Allen Tate perceived a shift in Eliot's method, writing that, "The mythologies disappear altogether in The Hollow Men." This is a striking claim for a poem as indebted to Dante as anything else in Eliot’s early work, to say little of the modern English mythology—the ‘Old Guy [Fawkes]’ of the Gunpowder Plot—or the colonial and agrarian mythos of Joseph Conrad and James George Frazer, which, at least for reasons of textual history, echo in The Waste Land. The "continuous parallel between contemporaneity and antiquity" that is so characteristic of his mythical method remained in fine form
Condition: Vinyl lie in very good+ condition, in general is quite clean, but presents a bad looking mark that doesn't affect playing quality, however it plays with some crackle. Cover lies in excellent condition, very well taken care of.
Tracklist
A1 We Are The Hollow Men A2 Eyes I Dare Not Meet In Dreams A3 This Is The Dead Land B1 The Eyes Are Not Here B2 This Is The Way The World EndsSHIPPING & PAYMENT
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