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Author:

Wolfe, Julia, composer.

Title:

Anthracite fields / Julia Wolfe.

Edition:

Full score.

Publisher:

administered exclusivley by G. Schirmer.

Copyright Date:

©2014

Description:

1 score (175 pages) ; 36 cm

Subject:

Lewis, John L.--(John Llewellyn),--1880-1969--Musical settings.
Lewis, John L.--(John Llewellyn),--1880-1969.
Secular oratorios--Scores.
Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices) with instrumental ensemble--Scores.
Miners--Pennsylvania--Songs and music.
Anthracite coal mines and mining--Pennsylvania--Songs and music.
Mine accidents--Pennsylvania--Songs and music.
Anthracite coal mines and mining.
Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices) with instrumental ensemble--Scores.
Mine accidents.
Miners.
Secular oratorios--Scores.
Pennsylvania.
Songs and music.
Musical settings.
Oratorios.
Scores.
Oratorios.
Scores.

Other Authors:

Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia, commissioning body.

Notes:

Multimedia oratorio for mixed chorus (SATB), clarinet (doubling bass clarinet), electric guitar (doubling acoustic guitar and tenor voice), percussion (1 player), piano (doubling sythesizer), cello (doubling alto voice), double bass (doubling bass guitar). "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. Program notes in English.

Contents:

Foundation -- Breaker boys -- Speech -- Flowers -- Appliances.

OCLC:

(OCoLC)948201958

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)