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Anthracite fields / Julia Wolfe.
LIBRA M1531.W635 A5 2014
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Musical score
- Author/Creator:
- Wolfe, Julia, composer.
- Lewis, John L. (John Llewellyn), 1880-1969, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Anthracite fields
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Secular oratorios--Scores.
- Secular oratorios.
- Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices) with instrumental ensemble--Scores.
- Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices) with instrumental ensemble.
- Miners--Pennsylvania--Songs and music.
- Miners.
- Anthracite coal mines and mining--Pennsylvania--Songs and music.
- Anthracite coal mines and mining.
- Mine accidents--Pennsylvania--Songs and music.
- Mine accidents.
- Genre:
- Oratorios.
- Art music.
- Scores.
- Physical Description:
- 1 score (175 pages) ; 36 cm
- Edition:
- Full score.
- Place of Publication:
- [New York] : Red Poppy Music : Ricordi, [2014]
- Language Note:
- English words. Includes program and performance notes in English.
- Staff notation.
- Contents:
- Foundation
- Breaker boys
- Speech
- Flowers
- Appliances.
- Notes:
- Oratorio for mixed SATB chorus, clarinet/bass clarinet, electric guitar/acoustic guitar/solo tenor voice, percussion (1 player), piano/synthesizer, cello/ solo alto voice, double bass/electric bass.
- "Texts culled from oral histories and interviews, local rhymes, a coal advertisement, geological descriptions, a mining accident index, contemporary daily everyday activities that make use of coal power, and an impassioned speech by John L. Lewis, the head of the United Mine Workers Union"--Program notes.
- Commissioned by the Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia.
- For Alan Harler.
- Includes program and performance notes.
- Pulitzer Prize for Music, 2015.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.
- OCLC:
- 1200673886
- Publisher Number:
- 9790041611983
- M041611983
- RNY 1198 Red Poppy Music
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