- Title
- Suite from "The River"
- Availability
- Available
- Category
- Orchestral
- Instrumentation
- 1.2.2.1-2.2.2.0-timp.perc-banjo-str
- Duration
- 24'
- Publisher
- Southern Music Publishing Co. Inc.
- Premiere
- World: The Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York City, NY, January 12th, 1943 (Brooklyn Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra; Sir Thomas Beecham, conductor)
- Edition/Catalog #
- HL 00228345
- Parts/Movements
- The Old South
- Industrial Expansion in the Mississippi Valley
- Soil Erosion and Flood
- Finale
- Version Of
- The River (W317)
- Versions
- Suddenly An Eagle (W325)
- Copyright
- ©1958 Southern; ©1986 Virgil Thomson
- Year Composed
- arr. 1937
- M.S. Location
- The Virgil Thomson Papers at Irving S. Gilmore Music Library at Yale University
- Cardell Number
- Orch9A
- Meckna Number
- W14
- Notes
From the film by Pare Lorentz (1937; See W317)
5-6 minutes from the first movement used in the ABC Circle film The Day After (1983) by Nicholas Meyer
Second movement used in the ABC News Film Suddenly an Eagle (1975; See W325)
- Related Persons
- Sir Thomas Beecham (Conductor)
