Marsalis, Wynton: A Fiddler's Tale (1998) 65'
for narrator and septet

Music Text  
Stanley Crouch (E)

Scoring
narrator-cl(=Acl). bn-cornet in C.trbn-perc(1):SD/BD/tom-toms/tgl/tamb/cowbell/washboard/whistle/sus.cym/sock cym/crash cym-vln.cb

Repertoire Note  
With A Fiddler's Tale, Wynton responds to Stravinsky’s famous L’Histoire du soldat (A Soldier's Story) from the perspective of later twentieth-century music, including but not limited to jazz. A Fiddler's Tale was commissioned by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center as a joint project of the Chamber Music Society and Jazz at Lincoln Center. A Fiddler's Tale premiered on April 23, 1998 at Hill Auditorium in Ann Arbor, Michigan.