Evening Land Symphony

For soprano and orchestra

Year: 1995
Duration: 30'
Category: Orchestra
Instrumentation: 3(3.pic).3(3.ca).3(3.bcl).3(3.cbsn)-4.3.3.1-timp.2perc(lg b.d, timb, tom-t, sus cym, tam-t, crot, tri)-hp.amp pno(hpd)-str
Texts: text by Par Lagerkvist | translation by Wystan Hugh Auden and Leif Sjoberg
Commission: Commissioned by the Barlow Endowment and the Saint Louis Symphony
Premiere: Premiere performance by the St. Louis Symphony, Leonard Slakin, Conductor, Linda Hohenfeld, Soprano, November 24, 1995, St. Louis Missouri
Purchase: Schott Helicon

Program Notes

Evening Land Symphony is an orchestral setting of the ninth collection of poems of Swedish nobel laureate Pär Lagerkvist, in which the writer considers universal themes of old age, the mystery of life and of God, loneliness and alienation.

Joseph Schwantner (b. 1943) : "Evening Land" Symphony (1995)