A Conductor's Guide to Choral-Orchestral Works Part I

by Green, Jonathan D.

• ISBN13: 9780810847200
• ISBN10: 0810847205
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-01-01
• Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Summary

Surveys large choral-orchestral works written between 1900 and 1972 that contain some English text. Green examines eighty-nine works by forty-nine composers, from Elgar's Dream of Gerontius to Bernstein's Mass.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents	v
Introduction	xi
I. Developments and Trends	1	(13)
II. Survey of Works	14	(259)
Adler, Samuel (b. 1928)	14	(5)
The Binding (1967)	15	(2)
A Whole Bunch of Fun (1969)	17	(2)
Amram, David Werner (b. 1930)	19	(2)
A Year in Our Land (1964)	19	(2)
Barber, Samuel (1910-81)	21	(4)
The Lovers, op. 43 (1971)	23	(2)
Bernstein, Leonard (1918-1990)	25	(9)
Kaddish, Symphony No. 3 (1961-63)	27	(3)
Mass (1970-71)	30	(4)
Bliss, Sir Arthur (1891-1975)	34	(6)
Pastorale: Lie Strewn the White Flocks (1928-29)	35	(1)
Morning Heroes (1929-30)	36	(3)
Golden Cantata (``Music in the Golden Form'') (1963)	39	(1)
Britten, (Edward) Benjamin (1913-76)	40	(10)
Saint Nicolas, op. 42 (1948)	42	(2)
Spring Symphony, op. 44 (1949)	44	(3)
War Requiem, op. 66 (1961)	47	(3)
Brubeck, David (b. 1920)	50	(3)
Light in the Wilderness (1968)	51	(2)
Cowell, Henry Dixon (1897-1965)	53	(5)
...If he please (1955)	55	(2)
The Creator, op. 919 (1963)	57	(1)
Creston, Paul (1906-85)	58	(3)
Isaiah's Prophecy, op. 80 (1962)	59	(2)
Delius, Frederick (1862-1934)	61	(8)
Appalachia (1896-1903)	63	(2)
Sea Drift (1903-04)	65	(2)
Requiem (1913-16)	67	(2)
Dello Joio, Norman (b. 1913)	69	(6)
Song of Affirmation (1952)	70	(3)
Songs of Walt Whitman (1966)	73	(2)
Del Tredici, David (b. 1937)	75	(2)
Pop-Pourri (1968, rev. 1973)	76	(1)
Dett, R(obert) Nathaniel (1882-1943)	77	(4)
The Ordering of Moses (1937)	79	(2)
Diamond, David Leo (b. 1915)	81	(3)
To Music (1967)	82	(2)
Elgar, Sir Edward (1857-1934)	84	(17)
The Dream of Gerontius, op. 38 (1900)	85	(4)
The Apostles, op. 49 (1903)	89	(5)
The Kingdom, op. 50 (1901-06)	94	(2)
The Music Makers, op. 69 (1902-12)	96	(3)
The Spirit of England, op. 80 (1915-17)	99	(2)
Finney, Ross Lee (b. 1906)	101	(7)
Pilgrim Psalms (1945)	102	(2)
Still are New Worlds (1962)	104	(2)
The Martyr's Elegy (1966)	106	(2)
Finzi, Gerald (1901-1956)	108	(2)
For St. Cecilia, op. 30 (1947)	109	(1)
Flagello, Nicolas (b. 1928)	110	(3)
The Passion of Martin Luther King (1968)	111	(2)
Foss [Fuchs], Lukas (b. 1922)	113	(4)
The Prairie (1943)	115	(2)
Foulds, John (1880-1939)	117	(3)
A World Requiem, op. 60 (1919-21)	118	(2)
Hanson, Howard (1896-1981)	120	(4)
The Lament for Beowulf, op. 25 (1925)	121	(2)
Three Songs from ``Drum Taps,'' op. 32 (1935)	123	(1)
Harris, Roy (1898-1979)	124	(4)
Symphony No. 4, Folk Song (1940)	126	(2)
Hindemith, Paul (1895-1963)	128	(4)
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd (1946)	129	(3)
Holst, Gustav (1874-1934)	132	(7)
Hymn of Jesus, op. 37 (1917)	134	(3)
First Choral Symphony, op. 41 (1923-24)	137	(2)
Hovhaness, Alan (b. 1911)	139	(7)
Easter Cantata, op. 100 (1953)	140	(2)
Magnificat, op. 157 (1958)	142	(3)
Cantata: Praise the Lord with Psaltery, op. 222 (1968)	145	(1)
Howells, Herbert (1892-1983)	146	(5)
Hymnus Paradisi (1938)	148	(3)
Kay, Ulysses Simpson (b. 1917)	151	(3)
Inscriptions from Whitman (1963)	152	(2)
Lambert, Constant (1905-51)	154	(6)
The Rio Grande (1927)	155	(3)
Summer's Last Will and Testament (1932-35)	158	(2)
Lees, Benjamin (b. 1924)	160	(2)
Visions of Poets (1961)	161	(1)
Lockwood, Normand (b. 1906)	162	(3)
The Prairie (1952)	164	(1)
Mennin, Peter (1923-83)	165	(6)
Symphony No. 4, The Cycle (1948)	167	(1)
Christmas Story (1949)	168	(2)
Cantata de virtute: Pied Piper of Hamelin (1969)	170	(1)
Menotti, Gian Carlo (b. 1911)	171	(4)
The Death of the Bishop of Brindisi (1963)	172	(3)
Persichetti, Vincent (1915-87)	175	(4)
Stabat Mater, op. 92 (1963)	176	(2)
The Creation, op. 111 (1969)	178	(1)
Riegger, Wallingford (1885-1961)	179	(4)
Cantata, In Certainty of Song, op. 46 (1950)	181	(2)
Rogers, Bernard (1893-1968)	183	(7)
The Passion (1942)	184	(3)
Letter from Pete (1947)	187	(1)
The Prophet Isaiah (1950)	188	(2)
Rorem, Ned (b. 1923)	190	(6)
The Poet's Requiem (1954-55)	192	(1)
Letters from Paris (1966)	193	(3)
Rubbra, Edmund (1901-1986)	196	(3)
Inscape, op. 122 (1964-65)	197	(1)
Advent Cantata, op. 136 (1968)	198	(1)
Schuller, Gunther (b. 1925)	199	(4)
The Power Within Us (1971)	201	(2)
Schuman, William (1910-1992)	203	(5)
This is Our Time (Secular Cantata No. 1) (1940)	205	(1)
A Free Song (Secular Cantata No. 2) (1942)	206	(2)
Sessions, Roger (1896-1985)	208	(5)
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd (1964-70)	210	(3)
Siegmeister, Elie (1909-1991)	213	(2)
I Have a Dream (1967)	214	(1)
Starer, Robert (b. 1924)	215	(3)
Ariel, Visions of Isaiah (1959)	216	(2)
Stevens, Halsey (1908-89)	218	(2)
A Testament of Life (1959)	219	(1)
Thompson, Randall (1899-1984)	220	(6)
Americana (1932)	221	(3)
The Passion According to St. Luke (1964-65)	224	(2)
Tippett, Sir Michael Kemp (b. 1905)	226	(10)
A Child of Our Time (1939-41)	227	(2)
Vision of St. Augustine (1963-65)	229	(3)
Shires Suite (1965-70)	232	(4)
Vaughan Williams, Ralph (1872-1958)	236	(23)
A Sea Symphony (1903-09, rev. 1924)	238	(3)
Sancta Civitas (1923-25)	241	(1)
Five Tudor Portraits (1935)	242	(3)
Dona Nobis Pacem (1936)	245	(2)
Serenade to Music (1938)	247	(4)
An Oxford Elegy (1949)	251	(1)
The Sons of Light (1950)	252	(2)
Hodie (1953-54)	254	(2)
Epithalamion (1957)	256	(3)
Walton, William (1902-83)	259	(4)
Belshazzar's Feast (1929-31)	260	(3)
Ward, Robert (b. 1917)	263	(6)
Earth Shall Be Fair (1960)	264	(2)
Sweet Freedom's Song (1965)	266	(3)
Willan, Healey (1880-1968)	269	(4)
Coronation Suite, op. 57 (1952-53)	270	(3)
Appendix I Sources, Authors, and Translators of Texts	273	(25)
Appendix II A List of Music Publishers and Distributors	298	(3)
General Bibliography	301	(7)
General Reference and Biography	301	(4)
Repertoire	305	(1)
Interviews	306	(1)
Discographies	307	(1)
About the Author	308