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Work Title
Renga
Date
Composed between 1975 and 1976. Premiered in Boston, September 29, 1976, with Apartment house 1776.
Ensemble Type
Variable
Work Length
Instrumentation
For 78 instruments or voices or combinations therof. Score (361 drawings by Thoreau sometimes superimposed) and 78 Parts (for any instruments and/or voices).
Comments
This piece may be played alone or (as an occasional piece) with Apartment House 1776 (EP 6819) or some other musicircus (live or recorded) appropriate to another occasion that the Bicentennial of the USA, an occasion, for example, such as the birth or death of another musically productive nation or person, or the birthday of a society concerned with some aspect of creative production of sound, e.g., birds, marine animals, weather changes, earthquakes, or plants, copyright restrictions permitting. This work comprises 361 drawings by Henry David Thoreau, distributed in systems using the 5-7-5-7-7 structure of Japanese Renga poetry. This graphic notation is to be interpreted by the performers. The composition can be performed with or without Apartment House 1776.
Dedicatee(s)
Seiji Ozawa and the Boston Symphony Orchestra in observance of the Bicentennial of the USA.
Publication
Peters Edition EP 6818
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