Orchestral Set No. 1: Three Places in New England

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composition date: 1914-1916
revisition date: 1929
duration: 19 min
editor: Mercury Music

type

Instrumental ensemble music (Double wind orchestra)

detailed formation

2 flutes (also piccolo), 2 oboes (also English horn), 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, percussionist

information about the creation

date: October 29, 1993
: (version 1, mouvements 1 et 3), États-Unis, Greeley, Colorado, Ives-Copland Festival, Monfort Concert Hall
interpreters: l'Orchestre symphonique de l'Université du Northern Colorado, direction : James Sinclair.

date: January 10, 1931
: États-Unis, New York, Town Hall
interpreters: l'Orchestre de chambre de Boston, direction : Nicolas Slonimsky ; version 3 créée en 1948 à Boston par l'orchestre symphonique de Boston, direction : Richard Burgin ; version 4 (pour grand orchestre) créée à New Haven en 1974, par le Yale Symphony Orchestra, direction : John Mauceri.

observations

autres titres : A New England Symphony ; Three New England Places ;
autres versions : versions 2 et 3 pour orchestre de chambre (2. révision de 1929), version 4 pour grand orchestre.

Part titles

I. The "St. Gaudens" in Boston Common (Col. Shaw and his Colored Regiment) (Very slowly, 9 min) ;
II. Putnam's Camp, Redding, Connecticut (Allegro), 6 min. ;
III. The Housatonic at Stockbridge (Adagio molto), 4 min.

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