Will Geer - Ecology Won: Readings By Will Geer and Ellen Geer - COMPACT DISCS [CD]
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- Genre: Spoken word
- Description: 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. Album Tracks 1. Frost, Robert The Pasture 2. Whitman, Walt This Compost 3. Twain, Mark O Lord Our Father 4. Letter to Will Geer from Woody Guthrie 5. Whitman, Walt Respondez 6. Guthrie, Woody So Long, It's Been Good to Know You 7. Chaucer Parliament of Foules 8. Shakespeare, William 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
- Artist: Will Geer
- Title: Ecology Won: Readings By Will Geer and Ellen Geer
- Format: CD
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 05/30/2012
- Genre: Spoken word
- Number Of Discs: 1
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- Product Name: Will Geer - Ecology Won: Readings By Will Geer and Ellen Geer - COMPACT DISCS
- UPC: 093070976320
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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. Album Tracks 1. Frost, Robert The Pasture 2. Whitman, Walt This Compost 3. Twain, Mark O Lord Our Father 4. Letter to Will Geer from Woody Guthrie 5. Whitman, Walt Respondez 6. Guthrie, Woody So Long, It's Been Good to Know You 7. Chaucer Parliament of Foules 8. Shakespeare, William 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
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