Will Geer - Woody's Story - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Cincinnati Cathedral Choristers - O Still Small Voice of Calm [COMPACT DISCS] date 12/11/2012

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.

Congressmen are the only native American criminal class. in 1961, veteran character actor and activist Will Geer recorded a selection of writings by Mark Twain. Several of them evince Twain's cynical views of American politicians, which Geer clearly shared. Geer also provides extended readings from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn featuring Huck and Jim's travels down the Mississippi River. The liner notes include the text of the readings and an essay by critic Samuel Barclays Charters on Twain's early career as a reporter.