"Echo" [Howard Rovics]

"Echo" [Howard Rovics]

Rovics, Howard; music (American, born 1936)

Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)

1964 [composition]; 1967 [revised composition]; 1978 [copyright]

New York: American Composers Alliance

genre: song

solo: voice|soprano

instrumentation: piano|flute

male composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "Echo"

Performance history: 1969, January 18, Composers' Forum concert, performance by Lee Dougherty, soprano, David Gilbert, flute, Anne Chamberlain, piano. ("Composers' Forum concert")

Recordings: "Echo." Piece for cello, piano, and electronic tape: What grandma knew. Look, friend, at me. Events. Echo. Performance by Ann Chamberland, piano, Lee Dougherty, soprano, Sylvia Alexander, flute, Composers Recordings Inc., 1978.
"Echo." Signs and circuits : string quartet no. 2. Performance by Ann Chamberland, piano, Lee Dougherty, soprano, Sylvia Alexander, flute, recorded in 1978, New World/CRI (Composers Recordings, Inc.), 1996, 2011.

Format 1: musical score

10 pages; performance time 4 minutes and 53 seconds

In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4382

Reference: Gooch, Bryan N.S. and David S. Thatcher. Musical Settings of Early and Mid-Victorian Literature: A Catalogue. New York: Garland, 1979.

Reference: Ezust, Emily. The LiederNet Archive. http://www.lieder.net/lieder/index.html

Other data reference(s): Record for "Echo: for flute, voice and piano, 1964, revised 1967." University of North Texas Library, https://iii.library.unt.edu/record=b1811802~S12. Accessed 8 Apr. 2020.
Record for "Composers' Forum concert, 1969 January 18." Columbia University Libraries, sound recording, https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/8616275. Accessed 8 Apr. 2020.

Cataloguer: Diana Bishara and Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa

Record: CRM-echo-rovics

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