Viola concerto
Title:
Viola concerto
Author:
Higdon, Jennifer, 1962- composer.
Personal Author:
Uniform Title:
Concertos, viola, orchestra
Publication Information:
[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania] : Lawdon Press, [2016]
©2014
Physical Description:
1 score (75 pages) ; 44 cm
General Note:
In three movements.
Includes program notes and notes on the instrument in English.
Commissioned by the Library of Congress in honor of Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the Library's concert series. Various co-commissioners listed on title page.
Dedicated to Roberto Diaz.
Higdon composed the work for Diaz to perform on the "Tuscan-Medici" viola (A. Stradivari, 1690) from the collection of the Library of Congress.
First performance: Roberto Diaz, viola; with the Curtis Chamber Orchestra, Robert Spano conducting, at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC, March 7, 2015.
Duration: approximately 22 min.
Language:
No linguistic content
English
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Format :
Musical Score