Charles Ives (1874-1954)
Orchestral Set No. 1: Three Places in New England (1914 -1916)
- General information
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Composition date:
1914 - 1916
Revision dates: 1929
- Duration: 19 mn
- Publisher: Mercury Music
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Composition date:
1914 - 1916
- 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, strings
Premiere information
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Date:
29 October 1993
Location:(version 1, mouvements 1 et 3), États-Unis, Greeley, Colorado, Ives-Copland Festival, Monfort Concert Hall
Performers:l'Orchestre symphonique de l'Université du Northern Colorado, direction : James Sinclair.
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Date:
10 January 1931
Location:États-Unis, New York, Town Hall
Performers: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.
Table of contents
- 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.