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Susanna and the Elders
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General Info
Year: 1978
Duration: 35:00
Difficulty: VI (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Jesse Ayers
Cost: Complete set: $100 electronic delivery Individual dances: $15 each
Instrumentation
- Bb Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
- Bb Bass Clarinet
- Percussion (1 player, multiple instruments)
- Narrator (optional)
- Mezzo soprano (optional, used on one number only)
- Dancers (optional)
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
A 35-minute theater piece based on the story of the same name from the Apocrypha. The work is modeled loosely on Stravinsky's L'Histoire du Soldat (which the composer has performed under Robert Craft).
It is scored for 3 Bb clarinets, 1 bass clarinet, and 1 percussionist playing a modest "multiple" setup. There are eight dances, or tableaus, with the mezzo soprano being included only on the sixth dance at the crux of the conflict.
Most, if not all, of the eight dances are suitable to be performed alone.
Audio Links
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Recent Performances
None discovered thus far.
Additional Works for Winds by this Composer
- and they gathered on Mount Carmel (1995)
- Fanfare for Christmas Morning (1995)
- Fanfare for Christmas Morning (Brass) (1995)
- Fire of the Living God, The (1995)
- Flashbax
- Incantations of the Prophets of Baal, The (1995)
- Jericho (2005)
- Magical Mystical Rain Forest, The (1991)
- Prayer of Elijah, The (1995)
- Rachel Weeping for Her Children September 11 2001 (2002)
- Rahab
- Susanna and the Elders (1978)
- Veni Emmanuel (1997)
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