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Work Title Music for "Marriage at the Eiffel Tower" |
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Alt. Title Music for Marriage at the Eiffel Tower |
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Date Composed in 1936. Premiered in 1939 in Seattle, March 24, 1939. |
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Ensemble Type Solo |
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Instrumentation For piano and toy instruments. |
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Comments This piece was composed in collaboration with Henry Cowell, George Frederick McKay, Silvestre Revueltas, and Amadeo Roldán, to a libretto by Jean Cocteau, Les mariés de la Tour Eiffel. Contents: You are on the 1st platform of the Eiffel Tower - Wedding march: Rubbish music - Everybody is deeply moved - Bravo (after Trouville Bathing Beauty) - Massacre - Photographer's case - After child - Radio grams - Radiograms (cont.) pt.2 - Lion - Help it's biting me! - Dirge, funeral march & eulogy - 3 o'clock and that ostrich isn't back yet - Quadrille - Oof, what a dance! - Return of the ostrich - But who are these two gentlemen who have just come in time to upset the photographer again? - Just in time - The dealer and collector leave the Eiffel Tower - Wedding march (exit) - Closing time! (after exit) - Toccata. |
