Alexander Smallens (01 Jan 1889 - 24 Nov 1972)

Male Person - United States conductor

Relationships (1)

Romantically Involved With

  1. Marc Blitzstein

Recordings by (3)

  1. Babes in Toyland: The Military Ball 3:17 (30 Jul 2002)
  2. Babes in Toyland: Hail to Christmas 2:48 (30 Jul 2002)
  3. Babes in Toyland: March of the Toys 3:07 (30 Jul 2002)

On Recordings (50)

Conducted

  1. Porgy and Bess: Act I, Scene 2. My Man’s Gone Now 3:53 Anne Brown & Eva Jessye Choir (1940)
  2. Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene 1. Bess, You Is My Woman 4:29 Todd Duncan & Anne Brown (1940)
  3. Porgy and Bess: Act III, Scene 1. The Requiem 3:52 Eva Jessye Choir (1940)
  4. Porgy and Bess: Act III, Scene 3. Porgy’s Lament and Finale ?:?? Todd Duncan, Eva Jessye Choir, Decca Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Smallens (1940)
  5. Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene 2. It Ain’t Necessarily So 2:45 Todd Duncan & Eva Jessye Choir (1940)
  6. Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene 1. Buzzard Song 3:41 Todd Duncan & Eva Jessye Choir (1940)
  7. Porgy and Bess: Overture and Summertime ?:?? Decca Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Smallens / Anne Brown (1940)
  8. Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene 1. I Got Plenty o’ Nuttin’ 2:41 Todd Duncan & Eva Jessye Choir (1940)
  9. Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene 3. (Street Cries) a. Strawberry Woman’s Call / b. Crab Man’s Call 3:04 Helen Dowdy & Gladys Goode (1959)
  10. Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene 3. I Loves You, Porgy 3:21 Anne Brown & Todd Duncan (1959)
  11. Porgy and Bess: Act I, Scene 1. A Woman Is a Sometime Thing / Introducing: Summertime ?:?? Edward Matthews assisted by Harriet Jackson with Eva Jessye Choir (1959)
  12. Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene 2. What You Want Wid Bess? 2:58 Anne Brown & Todd Duncan (1959)
  13. Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene 1. It Take a Long Pull to Get There 2:07 Edward Matthews (1959)
  14. Porgy and Bess: Act III, Scene 2. There’s a Boat Dat’s Leavin’ Soon for New York 3:00 Avon Long & Anne Brown (1959)
  15. Hallelujah Rhythm 3:30 Lawrence Tibbett (20 May 1997)
  16. Porgy and Bess: Act II. It Ain’t Necessarily So 3:03 Lawrence Tibbett, Alexander Smallens (13 Oct 1998)
  17. Porgy and Bess: Act II. The Buzzard Song 3:52 Lawrence Tibbett, Alexander Smallens (13 Oct 1998)
  18. Porgy and Bess: Act II. Bess, You Is My Woman Now 5:02 Helen Jepson, Lawrence Tibbett, Alexander Smallens (13 Oct 1998)
  19. Porgy and Bess: Act I. Summertime and Crap Game - A Woman Is a Sometime Thing 3:23 Helen Jepson, Lawrence Tibbett, Alexander Smallens (13 Oct 1998)
  20. Porgy and Bess: Act II. I Got Plenty o’ Nuttin’ 3:09 Lawrence Tibbett, Alexander Smallens (13 Oct 1998)
  21. Porgy and Bess: Act I. My Man’s Gone Now 4:14 Helen Jepson, Alexander Smallens (13 Oct 1998)
  22. Porgy and Bess: Act III. Oh, Bess, Oh Where’s My Bess? 3:09 Lawrence Tibbett, Alexander Smallens (13 Oct 1998)
  23. Porgy and Bess: Act I. Lullaby (Summertime) 2:34 Helen Jepson, Alexander Smallens (13 Oct 1998)
  24. Babes in Toyland: March of the Toys 3:07 Alexander Smallens (30 Jul 2002)
  25. Babes in Toyland: Never Mind Bo-Peep, We Will Find Your Sheep 2:15 Kenny Baker & Karen Kemple, Chorus (30 Jul 2002)
  26. Babes in Toyland: The Military Ball 3:17 Alexander Smallens (30 Jul 2002)
  27. Babes in Toyland: Toyland 3:13 Kenny Baker (30 Jul 2002)
  28. Babes in Toyland: I Can't Do the Sum 3:15 Karen Kemple (30 Jul 2002)
  29. Babes in Toyland: Song of the Poet 3:16 Kenny Baker (30 Jul 2002)
  30. Babes in Toyland: Opening 0:43 Kenny Baker & Karen Kemple, Chorus (30 Jul 2002)
  31. Babes in Toyland: Finale: He Won't Be Happy Till He Gets It / March of the Toys 2:22 Kenny Baker & Karen Kemple, Chorus (30 Jul 2002)
  32. Babes in Toyland: Floretta 2:41 Kenny Baker (30 Jul 2002)
  33. Babes in Toyland: Go to Sleep, Slumber Deep 2:39 Karen Kemple, Kenny Baker, Chorus (30 Jul 2002)
  34. Babes in Toyland: Hail to Christmas 2:48 Alexander Smallens (30 Jul 2002)
  35. Porgy and Bess: Act I, Scene 1. Overture 1:08 Decca Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Smallens (Jan 2003)
  36. Porgy and Bess: Act I, Scene 1. A Woman Is a Sometime Thing 1:40 Edward Matthews (Jan 2003)
  37. Bess, You Is My Woman Now 4:55 Lawrence Tibbett & Helen Jepson (Jan 2003)
  38. Lullaby: Summertime / Livin’s Easy 2:28 Helen Jepson (Jan 2003)
  39. It Ain’t Necessarily So 3:00 Lawrence Tibbett (Jan 2003)
  40. Porgy and Bess: Act III, Scene 3. Porgy’s Lament (Where Is My Bess?) 1:56 Todd Duncan (Jan 2003)
  41. Where Is My Bess? 3:04 Lawrence Tibbett (Jan 2003)
  42. Porgy and Bess: Act III, Scene 3. Finale (I’m on My Way) 1:21 Todd Duncan & Eva Jessye Choir (Jan 2003)
  43. Porgy and Bess: Act I, Scene 1. Summertime 2:26 Anne Brown (Jan 2003)
  44. Porgy and Bess: Act I, Scene 1. Summertime and Crap Game 1:04 Harriet Jackson & Eva Jessye Choir (Jan 2003)
  45. I Got Plenty o’ Nuttin’ 3:05 Lawrence Tibbett (Jan 2003)
  46. A Woman Is a Sometime Thing 2:01 Lawrence Tibbett (Jan 2003)
  47. Buzzard Song 3:48 Lawrence Tibbett (Jan 2003)
  48. Summertime and Crap Game 1:15 Helen Jepson, Lawrence Tibbett & Chorus (Jan 2003)
  49. Porgy & Bess: Act One, Scene I. Introduction 2:03 Choir of the Blevins Davis & Robert Breen production, RIAS‐Unterhaltungsorchester, Alexander Smallens (17 Apr 2009)
  50. Porgy & Bess: Act One, Scene I. Summertime – seven come, seven to pappy! 0:58 Helen Colbert, Joseph James, Choir of the Blevins Davis & Robert Breen production, RIAS‐Unterhaltungsorchester, Alexander Smallens (17 Apr 2009)

Credited as (59)

  1. Alexander Smallens
  2. Todd Duncan, Eva Jessye Choir, Decca Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Smallens
  3. George Gershwin; Todd Duncan, Anne Brown, Eva Jessye Choir, Decca Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Smallens
  4. Helen Jepson, Alexander Smallens
  5. Helen Jepson, Lawrence Tibbett, Alexander Smallens
  6. Lawrence Tibbett, Alexander Smallens
  7. NBC Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Smallens
  8. Lawrence Tibbett with the Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra / Gladys Swarthout with orchestra conducted by Alexander Smallens
  9. Gladys Swarthout with orchestra conducted by Alexander Smallens
  10. Helen Colbert, Joseph James, Choir of the Blevins Davis & Robert Breen production, RIAS‐Unterhaltungsorchester, Alexander Smallens
  11. Leontyne Price, John McCurry, Joseph James, Choir of the Blevins Davis & Robert Breen production, RIAS‐Unterhaltungsorchester, Alexander Smallens
  12. Helen Thigpen, Georgia Burke, Choir of the Blevins Davis & Robert Breen production, RIAS‐Unterhaltungsorchester, Alexander Smallens
  13. William Warfield, Helen Thigpen, Joseph James, Sam Kasakoff, William Veasey, Choir of the Blevins Davis & Robert Breen production, RIAS‐Unterhaltungsorchester, Alexander Smallens
  14. Leontyne Price, Choir of the Blevins Davis & Robert Breen production, RIAS‐Unterhaltungsorchester, Alexander Smallens
  15. Helen Colbert, Joseph James, Catherine Ayers, Choir of the Blevins Davis & Robert Breen production, RIAS‐Unterhaltungsorchester, Alexander Smallens
  16. William Warfield, Helen Colbert, Helen Thigpen, Georgia Burke, Catherine Ayers, Moses LaMarr, Willis Daily, Choir of the Blevins Davis & Robert Breen production, RIAS‐Unterhaltungsorchester, Alexander Smallens
  17. RIAS‐Unterhaltungsorchester, Alexander Smallens
  18. Ray Yeates, RIAS‐Unterhaltungsorchester, Alexander Smallens
  19. William Warfield, Cab Calloway, Helen Colbert, Helen Thigpen, Choir of the Blevins Davis & Robert Breen production, RIAS‐Unterhaltungsorchester, Alexander Smallens
  20. Leontyne Price, John McCurry, Helen Colbert, Choir of the Blevins Davis & Robert Breen production, RIAS‐Unterhaltungsorchester, Alexander Smallens
  21. Cab Calloway, Jerry Laws, Helen Thigpen, Joseph James, Choir of the Blevins Davis & Robert Breen production, RIAS‐Unterhaltungsorchester, Alexander Smallens
  22. Cab Calloway, Jerry Laws, Joseph James, Choir of the Blevins Davis & Robert Breen production, RIAS‐Unterhaltungsorchester, Alexander Smallens
  23. William Warfield, Leontyne Price, John McCurry, Jerry Laws, Helen Thigpen, Joseph Crawford, Choir of the Blevins Davis & Robert Breen production, RIAS‐Unterhaltungsorchester, Alexander Smallens
  24. Jerry Laws, Joseph Crawford, Helen Dowdy, Georgia Burke, Choir of the Blevins Davis & Robert Breen production, RIAS‐Unterhaltungsorchester, Alexander Smallens
  25. William Warfield, Leontyne Price, RIAS‐Unterhaltungsorchester, Alexander Smallens
  26. Leontyne Price, RIAS‐Unterhaltungsorchester, Alexander Smallens
  27. Choir of the Blevins Davis & Robert Breen production, RIAS‐Unterhaltungsorchester, Alexander Smallens
  28. Helen Colbert, Choir of the Blevins Davis & Robert Breen production, RIAS‐Unterhaltungsorchester, Alexander Smallens
  29. Helen Thigpen, Choir of the Blevins Davis & Robert Breen production, RIAS‐Unterhaltungsorchester, Alexander Smallens
  30. William Warfield, Cab Calloway, Helen Thigpen, Georgia Burke, Choir of the Blevins Davis & Robert Breen production, RIAS‐Unterhaltungsorchester, Alexander Smallens
  31. Leontyne Price, Cab Calloway, Joseph James, RIAS‐Unterhaltungsorchester, Alexander Smallens
  32. William Warfield, Leontyne Price, Georgia Burke, RIAS‐Unterhaltungsorchester, Alexander Smallens
  33. Cab Calloway, Choir of the Blevins Davis & Robert Breen production, RIAS‐Unterhaltungsorchester, Alexander Smallens
  34. Leontyne Price, John McCurry, RIAS‐Unterhaltungsorchester, Alexander Smallens
  35. Leontyne Price, John McCurry, Joseph Crawford, RIAS‐Unterhaltungsorchester, Alexander Smallens
  36. William Warfield, Choir of the Blevins Davis & Robert Breen production, RIAS‐Unterhaltungsorchester, Alexander Smallens
  37. Joseph James, Choir of the Blevins Davis & Robert Breen production, RIAS‐Unterhaltungsorchester, Alexander Smallens
  38. Leontyne Price, William Warfield, Cab Calloway, RIAS‐Unterhaltungsorchester, Alexander Smallens
  39. Cab Calloway, Leontyne Price, RIAS‐Unterhaltungsorchester, Alexander Smallens
  40. William Warfield, Helen Thigpen, Georgia Burke, RIAS‐Unterhaltungsorchester, Alexander Smallens
  41. William Warfield, Jerry Laws, Helen Thigpen, RIAS‐Unterhaltungsorchester, Alexander Smallens
  42. Helen Thigpen, Howard Roberts, RIAS‐Unterhaltungsorchester, Alexander Smallens
  43. William Warfield, Jerry Laws, Helen Thigpen, Joseph James, Howard Roberts, Leslie Scott, Georgia Burke, RIAS‐Unterhaltungsorchester, Alexander Smallens
  44. William Warfield, RIAS‐Unterhaltungsorchester, Alexander Smallens
  45. William Warfield, Leontyne Price, John McCurry, Jerry Laws, Helen Thigpen, Joseph James, Howard Roberts, Leslie Scott, RIAS‐Unterhaltungsorchester, Alexander Smallens
  46. William Warfield, Leontyne Price, Cab Calloway, John McCurry, Jerry Laws, Helen Thigpen, Joseph James, Howard Roberts, Leslie Scott, Georgia Burke, RIAS‐Unterhaltungsorchester, Alexander Smallens
  47. William Warfield, Helen Thigpen, Joseph James, Helen Dowdy, Sam Kasakoff, Walter Riemer, RIAS‐Unterhaltungsorchester, Alexander Smallens
  48. William Warfield, Joseph James, Choir of the Blevins Davis & Robert Breen production, RIAS‐Unterhaltungsorchester, Alexander Smallens
  49. Joseph James, Leslie Scott, RIAS‐Unterhaltungsorchester, Alexander Smallens
  50. William Warfield, Helen Thigpen, Joseph Crawford, RIAS‐Unterhaltungsorchester, Alexander Smallens
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Links (11)

Other Databases

  1. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no90026927
  2. http://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6bp0537
  3. https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no90026927
  4. https://www.ibdb.com/person.php?id=94619
  5. https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/109067

Wikipedia

  1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Smallens

Discogs

  1. https://www.discogs.com/artist/1476872

Allmusic

  1. https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mn0000690488

Imdb

  1. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0806548/

VIAF ID

  1. http://viaf.org/viaf/63569119

Wikidata

  1. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4720105