general information

composition date
2002
duration
3 min
editor
Boosey & Hawkes
Cycle
Three Illusions

type

Instrumental ensemble music (Triple wind orchestra (or larger))

detailed formation

2 flutes, piccolo, 2 oboes, English horn, clarinet, bass clarinet, contrabass clarinet, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, 2 percussionists, timpani, harp, piano

information about the creation

date
January 15, 2004

États-Unis, Boston, Massachusetts, Symphony Hall

interpreters

le Boston Symphony Orchestra, direction : James Levine.

observations

Program note

Micomicón, invented by Sancho Panza and his friends to cure Don Quixote’s “madness”, is said to be a kingdom near Ethiopia stolen by a giant from its queen, Micomicona, who beseeches the adventurous Don Q. to put her back on the throne (in Cervantes’ great novel, chapters 29-30, book 1). This brief score was commissioned by the Boston Symphony as a present to the extraordinary James Levine. It was composed in New York in 2002.



Elliott Carter.

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