Music Text
Libretto by Horace Everett (E)
Scoring
2S,M,A,2T,2Bar,B,speaker; chorus
2(II=picc).1.corA.2(II=bcl).2-2.2.2.0-timp.perc(2):glsp/tgl/SD/wdbl/
xyl/susp.cym/ratchet/BD/slap stick/tabor/sandpaper-harp-pft(ad lib)-
strings
Chamber version by Murry Sidlin (1987):
1.0.1.1-0.0.0.0-pft-strings(4.0.2.2.1)
Abbreviations (PDF)
Publisher
Boosey & Hawkes
Territory
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Opera
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World Premiere
4/1/1954
City Center, New York, NY
Jerome Robbins, director / New York City Opera / Thomas Schippers
City Center, New York, NY
Jerome Robbins, director / New York City Opera / Thomas Schippers
World premiere of version
5/20/1955
Oberlin College
Oberlin Conservatory Opera Laboratory
Oberlin College
Oberlin Conservatory Opera Laboratory
Subjects
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