Register

• For strings, winds, harp, percussion (including celesta, vibraphone, chimes), chorus of mixed voices.
• First draft March 1965. Completed August 13, 1966, in Hollywood.
• Text includes portions of the Proper of the Requiem Mass.
• Duration: c. 15 minutes.
• Commissioned by Stanley Seeger, Jr., Frenchtown, New Jersey, in a letter dated February 22, 1965.
• First performance at the McCarter Theater, Princeton, October 8, 1966.

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