The Nude Paper Sermon - Eric Salzman

 

The Nude Paper Sermon

The Nude Paper Sermon
Eric Salzman

Tapes Fro Actor, Renaissance Consort, Chorus, and Electronics

Stacy Keach, actor

The Nonesuch Consort

Members of the New York Motet Singers (Joseph Hansen - Director)

Joshua Rifkin - Conductor

Art Direction: William S. Harvey

Illustration: Bill Longcore

Design: Robert L. Heimall

Cover Concept: Hess and/or Intuit

Coordinator: Teresa Sterne

Electronic sounds realized at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, New York

Special Assistance: Steven Pepper

Produced and Recorded by Peter K. Siegel

Editing & Mixing: Joshua Rifkin, Eric Salzman, Peter K. Siegal

A Dolby-system recording

Recorded at Elektra Sound Recorders, New York - A& R Recording, New York

Nonesuch Records H-71231

1969

The Nonesuch Consort

Diana Tramontini - Soprano

William Zhukov - Counter-Tenor

Alan Titus - Baritone

Kenneth Wollitz - Winds

Lucy Cross - Lute

Richard Taruskin - Viola Da Gamba

Steven Pepper - Portative Organ

From the back cover: Eric Salzman's work include Verses and Cantos, The Peloponnesian War (dance/theater collage with Daniel Nagrin), Feedback (with visuals by Stan Vanderbeek), Foxes and Hedgehogs, and In Praise of the Owl and the Cuckoo; he has also composed the score for Can Man Survive?, a mixed-media environmental exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. In the summer of 1969, he toured South America, giving performances, seminars, and lecture. Educated at Princeton and Columbia and in Europe, he has been a critic with the New York Times and Herald Tribune, and is currently a critic for Stereo Review and music director of WBAI-FM in New York. He is the author of a book on 20-century music and numerous articles that have appeared in this country and abroad.

Stacy Keach played the title role in MacBird!, Falstaff and Peer Gynt with the New York Shakespeare Festival, Coriolanus with the Yale Repertory Theater, Edmund in King Lear at the Lincoln Center Repertory Theater, and the drifter in the film The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. He has studied at the University of California Berkeley and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art; he has also been assistant professor of acting at Yale Repertory Theater. In the 1969-70 season, he stars in the film End Of The Road and, on Broadway, in Arthur Kopit's Indians.

Joshua Rifkin studied at the Juilliard School of Music, New York and Princeton, Universities, and in Germany. His music has been performed in America and Europe; he has also written arrangements for singers Judy Collins and Tom Paxton. As musical supervisor of Nonesuch Records, he founded the Nonesuch Consort in 1968; although the major activity of the group is the exploration of early music, contemporary works also play a significant role in their repertoire.

Eric Salzman (b. 1933): The Nude Paper Sermon (1968-69)

Tropes for Actor, Renaissance Consort, Chorus and Electronics

Texts from John Ashbery, Three Madrigals; Steve Wade, The Nude Paper Sermon

Side One

A babble; a madrigal with electronic graffiti – 

The sermon begins; soprano solos; with chorus

(the "10 qualities" a bodily, sexual, ritual, sub-verbal, etc.)

– an instrumental canzona – another madrigal –

solos for wind instruments

(racket; brass & tenor dulcian;

bass, tenor & alto recorder;

gemshorn; soprano, alto & brass krummhorn;

kortholt; shawm; rauschpfeife),

with chorus; climax, coda

Side Two

Monologues, fragments, "ruins" – a choral madrigal -

solos fro counter-tenor; duet for soprano and

counter-tenor; with chorus, plus gamba & lute –

lute solos with accompaniment; OM; shout,

babble, bells; survival sound; wind, birds, stars