Alvin Singleton (1940)

Umoja - Each One of Us Counts (1996)

for narrator and orchestra

  • General information
    • Composition date: 1996
    • Duration: 23 mn
    • Publisher: Schott
    • Commission: Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games Cultural Olympiad
    • Libretto (details, author):

      texte de Rita Dove

Detailed formation
  • soloist: narrator
  • 3 flutes (also alto flute, piccolo), 3 oboes (also English horn), 3 clarinets (also bass clarinet), 3 bassoons (also contrabassoon), 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, 3 percussionists, harp, strings

Premiere information

  • Date: 21 July 1996
    Location:

    États-Unis, Atlanta, Symphony Hall


    Performers:

    Andrew Young, narrateur ; World Youth Symphony Orchestra ; Sergiu Commissiona, direction