| "AMARYLLIS" VARIATIONS FOR
STRING TRIO (1964) |
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25 min. |
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With 3 women's voices ad lib.
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Commissioned by the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation in the Library of Congress
October 31, 1964, New York String Trio
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| AMERICAN HYMN (1980) |
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9 min. |
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For brass quintet
Also available for concert band
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Commissioned by the American Brass Quintet
March 30, 1981, American Brass Quintet
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| AWAKE, THOU WINTRY EARTH (1986) |
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17 min. |
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Duo for clarinet and violin
Also arranged for flute and bassoon
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Commissioned by the Walter W. Naumburg Foundation
March 10, 1987, Charles Neidich, clarinet, and Curtis
Macomber, violin
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| COOPERSTOWN FANFARE (1987) |
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1 min. |
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For 2 trumpets and 2 trombones
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Composed for the opening of the Alice Busch Opera Theater, home of the Glimmerglass Opera
June 28, 1987, Cooperstown, NY
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| *DANCES (1985) |
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10 min. |
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Divertimento for wind quintet and percussion
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Composed for the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
October 31, 1986, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
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| IN SWEET MUSIC (1978) |
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23 min. |
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Serenade on a Setting of Shakespeare
For voice, fl(pic, al fl), vla, hp
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Commissioned by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
October 29, 1978, Paula Robison, Jan DeGaetani, Walter Trampler, Osian Ellis
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| THE LORD HAS A CHILD (1990 version) |
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6 min. |
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Text by Langston Hughes
For mixed chorus and brass quintet
See Accompanied Chorus and Voice for other versions
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Commissioned for the 350th anniversary of the founding of Greenwich, Connecticut
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| *QUARTETTINO FOR FOUR BASSOONS (1939) |
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5 min. |
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Also available in arrangements for 4 cl by Whitney Tustin and for 4 sax by Sigurd Rascher
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Composed for New Music Quarterly Recordings
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| *STRING QUARTET NO. 2 (1937) |
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16 min. |
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Spring 1938, Forum String Quartet
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| *STRING QUARTET NO. 3 (1939) |
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24 min. |
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Commissioned by Town Hall and the League of Composers
February 27, 1940, Coolidge Quartet
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| *STRING QUARTET NO. 4 (1950) |
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28 min. |
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Commissioned by the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation in the Library of Congress
October 28, 1950, Hungarian Quartet
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| *STRING QUARTET NO. 5 (1987) |
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30 min. |
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Commissioned by the Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A., for the First New York International Festival of the Arts
June 21, 1988, Orford String Quartet
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| XXV OPERA SNATCHES (1978) |
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5 min. |
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For unaccompanied tpt in Bb
Also available for solo flute
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Composed in response to the Metropolitan Opera Association's request to honor Eleanor Robson Belmont's 100th birthday
January 10, 1979, Melvin Broiles and Frank Hosticka
Flute version October 1, 1985, Paula Robison
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WITHDRAWN WORKS
(for Scholarly Study Only)
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| CANON AND FUGUE (1934) |
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8 min. |
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| CHOREOGRAPHIC POEM FOR SEVEN
INSTRUMENTS (1934) |
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| STRING QUARTET NO. 1 (1936) |
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withdrawn
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October 21, 1936, Forum String Quartet
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| TWO PASTORALES (1934) |
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withdrawn
First Pastorale for contralto and clarinet
(also for 2 violas or violin and cello)
Second Pastorale for flute, oboe and clarinet
(also for flute, violin and clarinet)
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First Pastorale, broadcast for WQXR's 20th anniversary celebration
Second Pastorale never performed
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