Basic Details

Title
Pastorale (orchestra)
Availability
Out of Print
Category
Orchestral
Instrumentation
2.2.2.2-4.2.3.1-str
Duration
3'
Publisher
Boosey & Hawkes
First Publisher
Unknown
Premiere
  • World: New York Center for Music and Dance, New York City, NY, March 15th, 1945 (New York City Symphony Orchestra; Virgil Thomson, conductor)
Version Of
Persistently Pastorale: Aaron Copland (W266)

Cataloging Information

Year Composed
1942
Year Published
1944
M.S. Location
The Virgil Thomson Papers at Irving S. Gilmore Music Library at Yale University
Cardell Number
P19A
Meckna Number
W25

Portrait Info

Subject
Aaron Copland
Tommasini ID
78

Additional Info

Notes

Arranged from the piano portrait of Aaron Copland

External Links
Sales Link (at publisher)

Attachments

Verification Notes

Verification

No definitive copyright record for orchestral version available online.

Related Works

Tuesday in November - Related Works

Tuesday in November includes Pastorale for orchestra (1944; G. Schirmer; See W25)

Pastorale for orchestra arranged from the piano portrait of Aaron Copland entitled Persistently Pastoral: Aaron Copland (1942; Boosey & Hawkes; See W266)

Excerpts from Tuesday in November include:

Fugue and Chorale on "Yankee Doodle" for orchestra (1945; G. Schirmer; See W28), and also arranged for wind ensemble by Frank Erickson (1970; G. Schirmer)

Walking Song for piano (1951; ms.; See W189), and also arranged for two pianos by Arthur Gold and Robert Fizdale (1945-1950; G. Schirmer)