Chansons de la Fontaine, 1997

Item — Box: CFC CDs Box 1

Identifier: CFC2021.0360.1

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

The Carlson Fable Collection is a gathering of primary fable materials at Reinert Alumni Memorial Library at Creighton University. It grew out of the personal collection of fable materials gathered by Rev. Gregory Carlson, S.J. and was given to the Creighton Libraries in 1996. There are more than 10,000 books and approximately 8,000 artifacts in the collection.

From plates to stamps, from cards to whiskey decanters, from toys to posters, you'll find just about anything you can imagine here. Please explore all that is to offer here in my fables Catalogue of Objects.

This is the largest online catalog of fable related objects on the internet. Many are from Aesop's Fables but you will find La Fontaine, Velazquez and Krylov also represented in this collection.

Dates

1997

Extent

1 CDs : Monomotapa. CD. Nineteen fables rendered as songs. Composition and arrangements of almost all: Jean Chavot. Auvidis Jeunesse. Studio du Palais. Liège, Belgium: Studio S.O.S.

Language of Materials

French

Additional Description

Abstract

This disc is a very pleasant surprise. The texts of La Fontaine are presented verbatim, if not always at the same level of intensity or audibility. But each text is encased in a true chanson, with its own rhythm and persuasion. These chansons move! I enjoyed the first four immensely, not least the conjunction of the third and fourth: "The Rat and the Elephant" and "The Frog Who Wanted to Be as Big as An Ox." They are very much about the same pretentiousness. The voices here work together wonderfully! An accompanying little booklet with clever illustrations offers a key refrain from each song.