Full score completed 13 April 1962

2 flutes (1 also piccolo), 2 oboes (1 also cor anglais), 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, 3 bassoons (1 also contrabassoon), 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, bass drum, 3 side drum, tambourine, cymbals, triangle, castanets, glockenspiel, xylophone, strings

in one movement (5´)

Fitzpatrick 4:25, Friend 4:35

Publisher:  United Music Publishers Ltd

Music excerpts

sound excerpts on Tower Records

Performances

15 November 1974 [first performance] (performed twice) . Philadelphia
Main Line Symphony Orchestra, conductor Robert Fitzpatrick

7 December 1974 [first UK performance] . Southampton
Havant Symphony Orchestra, conductor Peter Craddock

13 November 1976 . Toms River, New Jersey
Garden State Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Robert Fitzpatrick

Commercial recording

12-15 January 1993 . Studio 1, BBC Broadcasting House, Glasgow / Marco Polo
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conductor Lionel Friend
see also Discography

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