National Endowment of the Arts - The Big Read

The Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
Audio Guide - Credits


Original music composed and performed by Philip Brunelle.

Excerpts from Silvestre Revueltas's String Quartet No. 1: Vivo and String Quartet No. 3: Minsterio y fantástico, performed by the Cuarteto Latinoamericano and feature on the album String Quartets Nos. 1-4 (1994), used courtesy of New Albion Records and used by permission of Southern Music Pub. Company (ASCAP).

And excerpts from the following compositions used courtesy of Naxos of America, Inc:

  • Ludwig van Beethoven's String Quartet No. 14 in C sharp minor, Op. 131: Adagio ma non troppo e molto espressivo, performed by the Kodály Quartet, and featured on the album Complete String Quartets Volume 9 (1999).
  • Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition; On the Southern Shore of the Crimea; and Une larme, performed by Jeno Jandó, and featured on the album Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition/Balakirev: Islamey (1998).
  • Sergey Rachmaninov's The Isle of the Dead, Op. 29, performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and conducted by Enrique Bátiz, featured on the album Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances; The Isle of the Dead (1992).

Written and produced by Dan Stone at the National Endowment for the Arts, 2009.

Executive producer: Josephine Reed

Assistant producers: Adam Kampe, Liz Mehaffey, and Pepper Smith



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