- Title
- The Plow that Broke the Plains
- Availability
- Unpublished
- Category
- Film Score
- Instrumentation
- 1.1.3.1-2.2.2.0-2perc(including timp)-banjo.gtr(or pft.harp)-str
- Duration
- 27'
- Publisher
- Manuscript
- Premiere
- World: 14th annual Women's Exposition of Arts and Industries, New York City, NY, May 25th, 1936
- Year Composed
- 1936
- M.S. Location
- The Virgil Thomson Papers at Irving S. Gilmore Music Library at Yale University
- Cardell Number
- n/a
- Meckna Number
- W316
- Notes
Film by Pare Lorentz
Produced by the Works Progress Administration-Farm Security Administration
Filmtrack production: Alexander Smallens conducting members of the New York Metropolitan Opera and Philharmonic Orchestras
- Related Persons
- Pare Lorentz (Film)
- Works Progress Administration (Production)
- Farm Security Administration (Production)
- Alexander Smallens (Filmtrack Production)
- Related Works
The Plow That Broke the Plains - Related Works
The Plow That Broke the Plains (1936; ms.; W316)
Film score arranged for orchestra as Suite from "The Plow That Broke the Plains" (Feb 1936; G. Schirmer; See W13)
Orchestral suite also arranged for piano (1936; G. Schirmer; See W178)
Orchestral suite also arranged for brass quintet by Jay Rozen (arr. 1993)
