On the Balance of Things

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composition date: 1996-1998
duration: 24 min
editor: Peters, San Antonio, Texas
Dedicatee: la compagnie de danse de Lucinda Childs
Artistic collaboration(s): danse optionnelle
Commission: Meet The Composer
Libretto (details, author): Elizabeth Bishop, I. A Summer's Day, II. Questions of Travel, III. Anaphora, IV. The Monument, fragments.

Concertant music (Oboe and small ensemble up to 9 instruments)

flute (also piccolo), clarinet (also bass clarinet), trumpet, percussionist, violin, cello

date: June 7, 1996
: version non dansée, France, Paris, Cité de la Musique
interpreters: Jacqueline Leclair : hautbois, Sirius Ensemble, direction : Harvey Sollberger.

16 janvier 1998, France, Paris, Cité de la Musique, László Hadady : hautbois, l'Ensemble intercontemporain, direction : Anne Manson, chorégraphie et danse : Lucinda Childs.

Electronic device: sons fixés sur support(voix enregistrée : Lucinda Childs)

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