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Gian Carlo Menotti Chip And His Dog
1979 Vinyl Gatefold
Modern
Contemporary
Neo-Romantic
Opera

Main image
Aquitaine
chorus, commissioned by The Canadian Children's Opera Company
tracks b1-b12 composed by Benjamin Britten
tracks a composed by Gian Carlo Menotti
conductor Derek Holman
design, art direction Stella Jacobs
engineer Hayward Parrott
illustration David Bathurst
lacquer cut by Philip Joiner
tracks b1, b3, b4, b7, b9, b11, b12 lyrics by Anonymous
tracks b1-b12 percussion David Kent
photography by Colin M. Clarke
tracks b1-b12 piano Derek Bate
producer Eleanor Sniderman
Recorded At Manta Sound
Manufactured By CBS Records Canada Ltd.
Manufactured By CBS Disques Canada Ltée
Distributed By CBS Records Canada Ltd.
Distributed By CBS Disques Canada Ltée
Phonographic Copyright (p) Aquitaine Records
Copyright (c) Aquitaine Records
Lacquer Cut At Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Don Mills, ON
Mastered At Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Don Mills, ON
Pressed By Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Don Mills, ON
Includes 10 x 10 insert of lyrics for Friday Afternoon

Side A - Chip and His Dog
Children's opera in 2 scenes, for children, to be sung by children
Commissioned and performed by the Canadian Children's Opera Chorus
World Premiere at Guelph Spring Festival in May 1979
Recorded in June 1979

Side B - Friday Afternoons, Op. 7, 12 Songs

℗ 1979 Aquitaine Records
© 1979 Aquitaine Records

Includes 10 x 10 insert of lyrics for Friday Afternoon

Lyrics of Friday Afternoon sourced from:
- English Lyrical Verse (King's Teasuries) - A1
- Tom Tiddler's Ground - Walter de la Mare - A3-A5, A11, A12
- The Way of Poetry - John Drinkwater - A7
- Lighter Verse - King's Treasuries
Matrix / Runout: 90567-A-1A-2HZ: DM 6 (Side A, etched (last 6 stamped))
Matrix / Runout: 90567-B-1A-2HZ: DM 8 (Side A, etched (8 stamped))