B52.3 THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION [1960]

The Columbia Legacy Collection | [two lines within a single rule rectangular box:] The American | Revolution | A Cantata based on the music of the American Colonies during the years 1775-1800 | By Richard Bales | Produced by Goddard Lieberson | Performed by the NATIONAL GALLERY ORCHESTRA; RICHARD BALES, Conductor | CANTATA CHOIR, LUTHERAN CHURCH OF THE REFORMATION | PEGGY ZABAWA, Soprano; JULE ZABAWA, Baritone | With interpretative essays by | Historian ARTHUR M. SCHLESINGER, SR. Art Historian MARSHALL B. DAVIDSON | Poet ROBERT GRAVES Painter Larry Rivers | Composer RICHARD BALES | Recorded at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Collation: 30 leaves, stapled and secured with book tape to album covers.

2 pp. blank; p. [1] title-page; p. [2] Introduction to the Legacy Series; copyright and LC cataloguing; pp. [3]-[4] illustrations; p. 5 Table of Contents; p [6] blank; p. 7 Introduction; pp. [8]-55 text and illustrations, with pp. [21, 24, 27-28, 35-36, 39-40, 43] being unnumbered; pp. 56-57 biographical sketches of the contributors; p. 58 Acknowledgements.

34.5 × 30.3 cm. Bulk: 0.3 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed. The pages are stapled and secured to the album covers with red book tape.

Price: $10.00 (monaural), $11.00 stereo. Number of copies: Unknown. Published c. October 1960.

B52.3 was issued as a booklet bound into Columbia Records album ‘The American Revolution’ by Richard Bales. The booklet is followed by a paper sleeve containing 33⅓ rpm vinyl recording. The album’s covers are white paper-covered boards printed in blue red and black. The inner sides of the covers are blue paper. The gutters are reinforced with red book tape to support the booklet and the recording. The album was issued in two formats: Columbia Records LL 1001 was a monaural recording and LL 1002 was in stereo.

Note: Graves’s contribution is ‘The Case for the Forgotten Loyalists’ (pp. 33-34, 37-38). It was reprinted as ‘Forgotten Loyalists’ in A125.