Betsy Jolas (1926)

Lumor (1996)

seven spiritual songs for a saxophonist (playing soprano and tenor) and orchestra

  • General information
    • Composition date: 1996
    • Duration: 25 mn
    • Publisher: Billaudot, 2000
    • Commission: Radio France
Detailed formation
  • soloist: soprano saxophone (also tenor saxophone)
  • 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets [en sib] , bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, 2 trombones, tuba, 4 percussionists, timpani, piano, strings

Premiere information

  • Date: 28 November 1996
    Location:

    France, Paris, Radio-France


    Performers:

    Claude Delangle, saxophone ; Orchestre National de France ; Leonard Slatkin, direction

Observations

Placé sous l’incipit « Then Lumor Came… » du recueil Wanderpoem (1946) d’Eugène Jolas.