DOCUMENT RESUME TE 000 767 ED 022 775 By- Schreiber. Morris, Ed. FOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SECONDARY AN ANNOTATED LIST OFRECORDINGS IN TIC LANGUAGE ARTS SCHOOL COLLEGE National Council of Teachers ofEnglish. Charripaign. IN. Pub Date 64 Note 94p. Available from-National Cound ofTeachers of English. 508 South SixthStreet, Champaign. Illinois 61820 (Stock No. 47906. HC S1.75). EDRS Price MF-S0.50 HC Not Availablefrom MRS. ENGLISH 1)=Ators-Ati:RICAN LITERATURE. AUDIOVISUALAIDS. DRAMA. *ENGLISH INSTRUCTION. TURE FABLES. FICTION. *LANGUAGEARTS. LEGENDS. *LITERATURE.*PHONOGRAPH RECORDS. POETRY. PROSE. SPEECHES The approximately 500 recordings inthis selective annotated list areclassified by sublect matter and educationallevel. A section for elementaryschool lists recor of poetry. folksongs, fairytales. well-known ch4dren's storiesfrom American and w literature, and selections from Americanhistory and social studies.The recordings for both secondary school and collegeinclude American and English prose.poetry. and drama: documentaries: lectures: andspeeches. Availability Information isprovided, and prices (when known) are given.(JS) t . For Elementary School For Secoidary 'School For Colle a a- \ X \ AN ANNOTATED LIST 0 F IN THE LANGUAGE ARTS NATIONAL COUNCIL OF TEACHERSOF tNGLISH U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH. EDUCATION & WILIAM I OFFICE Of EDUCATION TINS DOCUMENT HAS 1EEN REPIODUCED EXACTLY AS DECEIVED FION THE PERSON 01 016ANI1ATION 0116INATNI6 IT.POINTS OF VIEW 01 OPINIONS 1 STATED DO NOT NECESSAINLY REPIESENT OFFICIAL OFFICE OF EDUCATION POSITION 01 POLICY. i AN ANNOTATED LIST OF RECORDINGS IN I THE LANGUAGE ARTS I For 3 Elementhry School Secondary School College 0 o Compiled and Edited bY g MORRIS SCHREIBER D Prepared for the NCI% by the Committee on an Annotated Recording List a Morris Schreiber Chairman Elizabeth O'Daly u Associate Chairman AnitaDore David Ellison o Blanche Schwartz o NATIONAL COUNCIL OF TEACHERS OF ENGLISH u Champaign, Illinois i d NCTE Committee on Publications James R. Squire, NCTE ExecutiveSecretary, Chairman Jarvis E. Bush, Wisconsin StateUniversityOshkosh Glenn Leggett, University of Washington Virginia M. Reid, Oakland Public Schools,California Enid M. Olson, NCTE Director ofPublications "PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE THIS COPYR IGHTED A174111LBY.MICR. OLITE,.. ONLY HAS KEN GRAN1ED . Li B 9,41,AdXem./4444- TO ERIC AND ORGANIZATIONAPERATING AGREEMENTS WITH THE IL S. OFFICE OF EDUCATION, FURTHER REPRODUCTION OUTSIDE THE ERIC SYSTEM REQUIRES PERMISSION OF THE COPYRIGHT MIER." Copyright 1964 National Council of Teachers of English tt. National Council of Teachers ofEnglish Committee on an Annotated RecordingList Morris Schreiber Principal P.S. 100, Brooklyn 24, N.Y. Chairman Elizabeth O'Daly Assistant Superintendent New York City Schools Associate Chairman Anita Dore Language Arts Coordinator New York City Junior High Schools David Ellison Principal P.S. 21, Brooklyn 33, N.Y. Blanche Schwartz Assistant Principal P.S. 86, Bronx, N.Y. Consultants to the Committee Joseph Mersand, Chairman, Department of English Jamaka High School, Queens, N.Y. Jarvis E. Bush, Department of English Wiscomin State UniversityOshkosh John R. Searles, Processor of English andEducation University of Wisconsin Readers of the manuscript who offered many helpful sugges- tions were John Muri, Chairman, Department of English, Hammond High School, Indiana, and Robert S. Whitman, Advisor of Student Teachers in English, University of Illinois. Special appreciation is expressed to two members of the NCTE staffRoger Gehlbach for assistance in ,reparing the compilation and Joan 0. Linsky for final editing of the manuscript. How to Use This Annotated Recording List Explanation of Symbols and Organization 1. All recordings are listed by Item Number. 2. Recordings are classified in the text by theirsubject matter and class placement. 3. The Annotated List is divided into threesections Recordings for Elementary Schools Recordings for Secondary Schools Recordings for College Classes . .A separate Table of Contents has been provided foreach section. 4. The letter "N" after an item number indicatesthat the recording is also listed in the NCTE pamphlet, Resources for the .Teaching of English, 1963-4 available from NCTE at the price indicated (discounts for NCTE members appear in parentheses after the list price). a. Where a price is notgiven, communicate directly with the recording company or distributor whose name appearsafter the record title. (For a list of Record Companies, Distributors, and Sales Agentsand their addresses, see pages 67-68.) The committee hastried to supply prices, but since they are subject to change without notice, the pro- ducer's quotations at any time must be authoritative. 5. Where several different recordings of a work have been included, they are listed in alphabetical order of the names of the recording companies or artists. N.B.All such versions have been grouped under the same item number. 6. Recordings by the authors themselves precede readings or adaptations of their work by others. 7. Unless otherwise indicated, all records are long-playing (LP) twelve- inch, 33% rpm's. H Introduction "Speech was made to open manto man." Publilius Syrus "Speech is a mirror ofthe soul: as a man speaks, so is he." David Lloyd Among the miracles oftoday's mass media,with their practically instantaneous power to reachvast audiencesthrough image and sound, recordings retain a firmhold on both the interestand imagination of a con- readily accessible Ifice books, stantly growing public.Easily stored and physically sturdy andtechnically excellent, andavailable in stereophonic word form, recordings can openrich cultural vistas inmusic and the spoken To the English teacher, in to all who will availthemselves of their treasures. particular, recordingsof greatliterary artists themselves orof those dis- tinguished actors and readersinterpreting the works of thewritersoffer a students to explore dynamic means of vitalizinginstruction and stimulating more intensivelythe fascinating worldof literature. enterprising and With recording companiesbecoming more and more creative, the library ofthe spoken word growsdaily in depth, imaginative- chosen for interpretation. ness ofconception, and qualityof subject matter And even as it a', Ives tocapture the passing scene,it constant4 reaches out to set down andreexamine the past. Some years ago I hadthe eerie butexhilarating experience ofhearing deadsome more than sevendecades the disembodied voicesof people long exhumed, as it were,resurrected, and transferredto a wax disk to revolve It was like rounding a for all time and "speaktheir piece" for posterity. New York corner ofeternity. The program, oneof a series broadcast over a featured recordings of such City station, was "Voicesof Yesteryear"; it illustrious personalities asQueen Victoria, LeoTolstoi, 0. Henry, and Thomas Edison. vii Of the four, I recall most vividly Tolstoi, speaking first in Russian and then in English, sending his greetings to the world, and 0. Henry, sounding very much like the movie actor, Jack Oakie,wistfully expressing a hope that his stories would continue to find a receptive audience then and in years to come. The magic of that moment has since been recaptured for me countless timeson more modern disks, beautifully engineered and as acoustically perfect as human ingenuity can contrive. Therefore, although I fully appre- ciate the scientific miracle of television, I remain an audiophile, fascinated by sound as a means of communication, entertainment, and education, and a devotee of the spoken word. This interest hasbecome all the keener since I was afforded the challenging experience of active participation in recording work in the preparation of my own albums. It was, therefore, with great pleasure that I welcomed the invitation to direct the preparation of an annotated recording list in language arts for all levelselementary school, secondary school, and college. The announced goal was to "survey the field," to audition and evaluate the output of the recording industry in the field of English, and to compile a list which the English teacher, wishing to vitalize a lesson in language arts, could examine for leads to useful recorded material in literature, composition, linguistics, speech, and allied areas. But when the committee was organized and began work, it found that the field was so vast that it had to modify its original goal from that of comprehensiveness to the more attainable one of selectivity. To this end, all prodtmers actively involved in the creation of recordings in language arts were invited to participate by sending theirrecords to the committee for evaluation. Most of the major companies and some of the smaller producers, I am happy to acknowledge, did respond fully and enthusiastically to our invitation. The committee was thus able to listen to several hundred record- ings and decide on their value. This personal evaluation provided the bed rock for the annotated list, the solid base upon which we built. But more was needed. To locate additional material and round out the picture we con- sulted the following reliable sources: viii u Additional Source Material Utilised in This Survey n ...Reviews by professimml record critics in leading newspapersand periodicals, notably those of Thome; Usk andHerbert Mitgang in the New York Times (Sunday edition) and John Ciardiin Saturday Review ... n and by NCI'E's own distinguilimi educationalcritics, John R. Searles and John Muri, writing in the English Journal . n ...Evaluations