- General information
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Composition date:
2002
- Duration: 3 mn
- Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes
- Cycle: Three Illusions
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Composition date:
2002
- 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, timpani, 2 percussionists, harp, piano, strings
Premiere information
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Date:
15 January 2004
Location:États-Unis, Boston, Massachusetts, Symphony Hall
Performers:le Boston Symphony Orchestra, direction : James Levine.
Observations
voir aussi Three Illusions for Orchestra
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.