Three Cities in the Life of Dr Norman Bethune

15 SONGS • 47 MINUTEN • JAN 01 2005

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Scene 1 - Montréal: Prelude: Three Cities: You Must Remember (Pai-Chou-En) poem, To Pony, Aug. 31, 1935 and letter, Oct. 8, 1935 (N. Bethune); poem: To Pony, Aug. 31, 1935 and letter, Oct. 8, 1935 (N. Bethune)

04:31

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Scene 1 - Montréal: Poem, An Immigrant (Dorothy Livesay, Montreal)

05:44

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Scene 1 - Montréal: Incantation 1, letter, Nov. 6, 1935 (N. Bethune)

03:17

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Scene 1 - Montréal: Poem, Depression Suite (Dorothy Livesay, Montreal)

03:29

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Scene 1 - Montréal: Letter, Oct. 8, 1935 (N. Bethune)

00:47

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Scene 2 - Madrid: Prelude: El Segador (songs from the Spanish Civil War)

03:34

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Scene 2 - Madrid: Poem, The Defense of Madrid, the Defense of Catalonia, (Rafael Alberti, Madrid)

05:11

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Scene 2 - Madrid: The Evacuation of Malaga, pamphlet, Feb. 7, 1937 (N. Bethune)

06:27

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Scene 2 - Madrid: Poem, I Come from Cuatro Caminos, Jan. 1937 (N. Bethune)

02:27

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Scene 3 - Chin Ch’a Chi (now: Shanxi-Charhar-Hobei): Prelude

01:41

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Scene 3 - Chin Ch’a Chi (now: Shanxi-Charhar-Hobei): Poem, Untitled (Lu Xun, China)

02:30

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Scene 3 - Chin Ch’a Chi (now: Shanxi-Charhar-Hobei): Incantation 2, letter, Aug. 15, 1939 (N. Bethune)

01:52

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Scene 3 - Chin Ch’a Chi (now: Shanxi-Charhar-Hobei): Poem, Autumn 1939, (Dorothy Livesay, Montreal)

02:33

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Scene 3 - Chin Ch’a Chi (now: Shanxi-Charhar-Hobei): Reprise, letters, Aug. 15, 1939 and July 1, 1939 (N. Bethune)

01:09

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Scene 3 - Chin Ch’a Chi (now: Shanxi-Charhar-Hobei): Final letter, Nov. 11, 1939 (N. Bethune)

02:46

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