- Title
- The Nativity as Sung by the Shepherds
- Availability
- Out of Print
- Category
- Orchestral
- Instrumentation
- A.T.B: mixed chorus (SATB)-2.2.2.1-2.2.0.0-2perc-pft-org ad lib-str
- Duration
- 7'
- Publisher
- G. Schirmer Inc.
- Commission
- Commissioned by the Women's Board of the University of Chicago for the 75th Anniversary of the University
- Premiere
- World: Rockefeller Chapel, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, May 7th, 1967 (Rockefeller Chapel Choir; Members of the Chicago Symphony; Charlotte Brent, mezzo-soprano; Walter Carringer, tenor; Henri Noel, bass; Richard Vikstrom, conductor)
- Copyright
- ©1971 G. Schirmer; ©2000 Virgil Thomson Estate
- Year Composed
- 1966-67
- Date Composed
- Nov 1966-April 1967
- Year Published
- 1971
- M.S. Location
- The Virgil Thomson Papers at Irving S. Gilmore Music Library at Yale University
- Cardell Number
- C19[A-E]
- Meckna Number
- W94
- Notes
Also arranged for one or two pianos
- Texts
- Richard Crashaw
- Related Persons
- Richard Vikstrom (Conductor)
- Richard Crashaw (Text Author)