Alvin Singleton (1940)

When Given a Choice (2004)

for orchestra

  • General information
    • Composition date: 2004
    • Duration: 16 mn
    • Publisher: Schott
    • Commission: Serge Koussevitzky Music Foundation, Inc. et l'American Composers Orchestra, avec un soutien additionnel de la John Simon Guggenheim Foundation
Detailed formation
  • flutes (also piccolo), 2 oboes, English horn, 3 clarinets (also Eb clarinet, bass clarinet), 3 bassoons, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, 3 percussionists, strings

Premiere information

  • Date: 28 April 2004
    Location:

    États-Unis, New York, Carnegie Hall


    Performers:

    American Composers Orchestra ; Steven Sloane, direction