- Title
- Louisiana Story
- Availability
- Unpublished
- Category
- Film Score
- Instrumentation
- 2.2.2.2-2.2.2.0-2perc-accordion.harp-str
- Duration
- 81'
- Publisher
- Manuscript
- Premiere
- World: Cally Picture House, Second International Festival of Documentary Films, Edinburgh, Scotland, August 22nd, 1948
- Year Composed
- 1948
- M.S. Location
- The Virgil Thomson Papers at Irving S. Gilmore Music Library at Yale University
- Cardell Number
- *Orch6[A-B]
- Meckna Number
- W320
- Notes
Film produced and directed by Robert Flaherty
Filmtrack production: Eugene Ormandy conducting members of the Philadelphia Orchestra; musical supervision by Virgil Thomson
- Related Persons
- Robert Flaherty (Director)
- Robert Flaherty (Production)
- Eugene Ormandy (Conductor)
- Disambiguation
Louisiana Story - Related Works and Disambiguation
Works derived from filmscore for orchestra, Louisiana Story:
Suite from "Louisiana Story" for orchestra (1948; G. Schirmer; See W30)
Suite from "Louisiana Story" arranged for piano by Andor Foldes (post-1948; G. Schirmer)
Second movement of Suite from "Louisiana Story" for orchestra arranged for woodwinds by Frank Erickson (1967; G. Schirmer)
Acadian Songs and Dances for orchestra (1948; G. Schirmer; See W31)
An unverified piano arrangement of Acadian Songs and Dances
Bayou (staged 1952; G. Schirmer), a ballet with music from Acadian Songs and Dances
