Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786303499291 Format: Color, NTSC ISBN: 6303499295 Label: First Run Features Manufacturer: First Run Features Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: First Run Features Release Date: May 28, 1996 Running Time: 57 minutes Studio: First Run Features
Amazon.com: This 1993 documentary conceived and directed by Catherine Warnow and Regina Weinreich is an at times disturbing but always fascinating portrait of the enigmatic and reclusive author who many call the original expatriate and the godfather of the Beat Generation. Using the environment of present day Tangiers as a springboard, the film charts the life of Paul Bowles, from his privileged upbringing to his promising career as a celebrated composer on Broadway in 1930s and '40s New York to his move at the suggestion of Gertrude Stein into the expatriate community of Morocco, a mysterious land and culture from which Bowles never left. Bowles is seen in the environment that most suits him; as he says, "I never make plans; they make themselves." The documentary also details the complex and tumultuous relationship between the author of such seminal works as The Sheltering Sky, Delicate Prey, and Without Stopping and his wife Jane, from her attempts at writing and her alcoholism to their respective affairs with both men and women. Featuring testimonials from such notables as Beat poet Allen Ginsberg, what emerges in Paul Bowles: The Complete Outsider is an indispensable and evocative portrait of one of the most influential writers of this century. --Robert Lane
American composer most noted for being a prolific
composer of songs based on a world-wide source of poetry. His songs based on
American poetry are intuitively beautiful, ie. those based on poems of Walt
Whitman, Paul Goodman, Theodore Roethke and Frank O’Hara. Other works written
such as sonatas and a Violin Concerto (1984) recorded by Leonard Bernstein,
Gidon Kremer and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra on DG 429 231 2. Phyllis
Curtin and Susan Graham - outstanding interpreters of the Songs. New CD of
Rorem’s Songs released this year with Susan Graham-mezzo-soprano and Malcolm
Martineau available on Erato 8573-80222-2. Rorem influenced by Virgil
Thomson in composing style.
Other song cycles by Leonard Bernstein ("Song Fest"), Aaron Copland ("Old
American Songs" & "Emily Dickinson Songs"), Charles Ives Songs, and Virgil
Thomson Songs make interesting and comparable listening experiences.
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