★ 32 Cannon Street, Poughkeepsie NY

Your cart

Your cart is empty

Check out these collections

New Vinyl
Coming Soon
Back In The Bins

Will Geer- Ecology Won: Readings By Will Geer and Ellen Geer (CD)

SKU: 093070976320
¥138.00
the album cover for Will Geer - Ecology Won: Readings By Will Geer and Ellen Geer
the album cover for Will Geer - Ecology Won: Readings By Will Geer and Ellen Geer

In 1978, veteran character actor and social activist Will Geer recorded a selection of literary writings on the theme of ecology. Geer begins his reading with a poem by Robert Frost and texts by Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, and Woody Guthrie. He continues with selections from Chaucer, William Shakespeare, and several unattributed Elizabethan plays, and provides commentary linking all the pieces together. His daughter Ellen Geer takes the role of the female voices in the readings from Shakespeare and three Elizabethan plays. The liner notes include the text of the 11 literary selections and brief biographies of the two actors.

Tracklist:

  1. Robert Frost: The Pasture
  2. Walt Whitman: This Compost
  3. Mark Twain: O Lord Our Father...
  4. Letter To Will Geer From Woody Guthrie
  5. Walt Whitman: Respondez
  6. Woody Guthrie: So Long, It's Been Good To Know You
  7. Chaucer: Parliament Of Foules
  8. William Shakespeare: King Henry V, Act V, Scene II
  9. Abraham And Issac (Brome Version)
  10. Anon: Simon And Susan
  11. The Nativity And The Slaughter Of The Innocents
Format: New CD/Poetry

Will Geer- Ecology Won: Readings By Will Geer and Ellen Geer (CD)

SKU: 093070976320
¥138.00

Release Date: 05.30.2012

 
Shipping calculated at checkout.

> Due to the current limited nature of music titles, ALL CD & Vinyl purchases are limited to FOUR copies per customer, per item. If you place multiple orders for multiples of the same title, your subsequent orders will be canceled.

In 1978, veteran character actor and social activist Will Geer recorded a selection of literary writings on the theme of ecology. Geer begins his reading with a poem by Robert Frost and texts by Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, and Woody Guthrie. He continues with selections from Chaucer, William Shakespeare, and several unattributed Elizabethan plays, and provides commentary linking all the pieces together. His daughter Ellen Geer takes the role of the female voices in the readings from Shakespeare and three Elizabethan plays. The liner notes include the text of the 11 literary selections and brief biographies of the two actors.

Tracklist:

  1. Robert Frost: The Pasture
  2. Walt Whitman: This Compost
  3. Mark Twain: O Lord Our Father...
  4. Letter To Will Geer From Woody Guthrie
  5. Walt Whitman: Respondez
  6. Woody Guthrie: So Long, It's Been Good To Know You
  7. Chaucer: Parliament Of Foules
  8. William Shakespeare: King Henry V, Act V, Scene II
  9. Abraham And Issac (Brome Version)
  10. Anon: Simon And Susan
  11. The Nativity And The Slaughter Of The Innocents