Basic Details

Title
Power Among Men
Availability
Unpublished
Category
Film Score
Instrumentation
2.2.2.2-2.2.3.0-2perc-harp-str
Duration
90'
Publisher
Manuscript
Premiere
  • World: The Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY, March 5th, 1959
Versions
Fugues and Cantilenas (W42)

Cataloging Information

Year Composed
1958
Date Composed
Nov-Dec 1958
M.S. Location
The Virgil Thomson Papers at Irving S. Gilmore Music Library at Yale University
Cardell Number
Orch8.6[A]
Meckna Number
W322

Additional Info

Notes

Film directed by Thorold Dickinson and J.C. Sheers

Produced by Thorold Dickinson for the United Nations Film Unit (90 min.)

TV version for Omnibus (NBC) (47 min. 10 sec.)

Filmtrack production: Virgil Thomson conducting members of the New York Philharmonic

Excerpt: Fugues and Cantilenas for orchestra (1959; Boosey & Hawkes; See W42)

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