Miscellaneous; Silenced voices: The long-suppressed poetry of Anna Akhmatova and Marina Tsvetayeva
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- Miscellaneous
- Producing Organization
- WNYC (Radio station : New York, N.Y.)
- Contributing Organization
- WNYC (New York, New York)
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- cpb-aacip/80-70msc5t4
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- SUPER SUNDAY /JANUARY 31 5PM SILENCED VOICES The Long-Suppressed Poetry of ANNA AKHMATOVA and MARINA TSVETAYEVA With Musical Settings by PROKOFIEV, BOBYLEV, GOKHMAN and SLONIMSKY CLAIRE BLOOM ALLA DEMIDOVA ANNA STEIGER, Soprano BRIAN ZEGER, Piano Silenced Voices was developed by DAVID EDEN THE PROGRAM The Poems of MARINA TSVETAYEVA (1892-1941) Where does this tenderness come from? From "Moscow Verses", sect. II, V In my huge city night A kiss on the head You who loved me with the falsehood An Attempt at Jealousy To Boris Pasternak Homesickness Poem for Akhmatova From "Phaedra" Read in Russian by Alia Demidova, and in English by Claire Bloom --intermission The Poems of ANNA AKHMATOVA (1889-1966) The sun fills my room True tenderness In remembrance of the sun Greetings The gray-eyed king Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953). Sung in Russian by Anna Steiger, with Brian Zeger, piano. Read by Claire Bloom in English The Last Toast Our holy trade I've learned to live simply, wisely The Third Northern Elegy Read in Russian by Alia Demidova and in English by Claire Bloom Muse Read in Russian by Alia Demidova and in English by Claire Bloom He said that I have no rivals Elena Gokhman (b. 1935). Sung in Russian by Anna Steiger, with Brian Zeger, piano. Read by Claire Bloom in English I will leave your white house and tranquil garden Sergei Slonimsky (b. 1932). Sung in Russian by Anna Steiger, with Brian Zeger, piano. Read by Claire Bloom in English Has this century been worse The Fourth Northern Elegy Voronezh Komarovo Sketches Requiem Read in Russian by Alia Demidova and in English by Claire Bloom THE ARTISTS CLAIRE BLOOM has been a significant and luminous presence on stage and film for the past several decades. She has appeared opposite Charlie Chaplin in Limelight and starred with Richard Burton in The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. She has performed many major Shakespearean roles both on stage and film -playing Cordelia to Sir John Gielgud's Lear in London and opposite Lawrence Olivier in the film production of Richard HI. She appeared in the Masterpiece Theatre production of Brideshead Revisited. At Symphony Space, Ms. Bloom appeared with Fritz Weaver in a reading from The Book of J and portrayed great literary heroines in Women Observed. FRITZ WEAVER appeared on Broadway most recently as Governor Danforth in the National Actors Theatre production of Arthur Miller's The Crucible and at the Folger Theatre in Washington, D.C. as King Lear. He reads regularly at Symphony Space in Selected Shorts and Bloomsday on Broadway. He appeared in a reading from The Book of J with Claire Bloom. He helped pioneer our new maritime ventures by reading John Cheever tales between Fort Lauderdale and Aruba on the Holland-America Line. ALL A DEMIDOVA, Russia's premier actress began acting at the Moscow Taganka Theatre in the mid-1960's. Under its directors Yuri Ljubimov and A. Effros, Ms. Demidova played a wide variety of roles, including Ranevskaya in The Cherry Orchard, Gertrude in Hamlet and Elvira in Tartuffe. She has twice played women poets the Ukrainian tragic poetess Lesya Ukrainka, and the heroine of the Leningrad blockade, Olga Bergholtz. Alia Demidova remains the leading lady of the Taganka - and of all Russia. ANNA STEIGER is a Convent Garden soprano and performs regularly in opera and concert throughout Europe and America. Since making her spectacular debut at the Glyndebourne Festival, she has appeared with the Lausanne Opera, the Netherlands Opera,
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- Performance
- Media type
- Sound
- Duration
- 01:48:58
- Credits
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Engineer: DeMark, Michael
Engineer: Bronder, Christine
Performer: Bloom, Claire, 1931-
Performer: Weaver, Fritz, 1926-
Performer: Demidova, Alla
Performer: Steiger, Anna
Producer: Delahunty, Eileen
Producing Organization: WNYC (Radio station : New York, N.Y.)
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WNYC-FM
Identifier: 68445.1 (WNYC Media Archive Label)
Format: DAT
Generation: Original
Duration: 01:48:58
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WNYC-FM
Identifier: 68445.2 (WNYC Media Archive Label)
Format: DAT
Generation: Master
Duration: 01:59:04
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WNYC-FM
Identifier: 68445.3 (WNYC Media Archive Label)
Format: audio/vnd.wave
Generation: Dub
Duration: 01:50:59
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WNYC-FM
Identifier: 68445.4 (WNYC Media Archive Label)
Format: audio/vnd.wave
Generation: Dub
Duration: 01:01:22
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- Citations
- Chicago: “Miscellaneous; Silenced voices: The long-suppressed poetry of Anna Akhmatova and Marina Tsvetayeva ,” WNYC, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed May 2, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-80-70msc5t4.
- MLA: “Miscellaneous; Silenced voices: The long-suppressed poetry of Anna Akhmatova and Marina Tsvetayeva .” WNYC, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. May 2, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-80-70msc5t4>.
- APA: Miscellaneous; Silenced voices: The long-suppressed poetry of Anna Akhmatova and Marina Tsvetayeva . Boston, MA: WNYC, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-80-70msc5t4