The Burning Ship
The Burning Ship is a cantata in three parts for mixed voices, with a text by Howard Malcolm Ticknor (Howard Malcolm Ticknor (1836-1905) and music by Benjamin Archibald Baker (1818–1890)
Contents
The original text
Published by Oliver Ditson & Company., Boston, Massachusetts., 1858
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1873: Performed twice in Cape Town during September(?) by the Cape Town Choral Society of Mr. Bucke, with "all kinds of realistic scenes of departure, storm, fire and salvation".
Sources
Gilbert Chase. 1992. America's Music, from the Pilgrims to the Present. Volume 441 of Music in American life. University of Illinois Press: p. 153
https://www.abebooks.com/Burning-Ship-Cantata-Three-Parts-Mixed/19338376130/bd
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.
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