1978
Eurydice
for women’s chorus and seventeen instruments
Premiere
1 December 1979
Anna Crusis Women’s Choir | Catherine Roma, conductor
First Unitarian Church
Philadelphia, PA
Work Details
Duration:
ca. 12 minutes
Instrumentation:
Sopranos in two parts, each including two soloists;
Altos in two parts, each including two soloists
2 Fl. (also Picc.), Alto Fl., Cl.; 2 Hn., 2 Trb.; 4 Vn., 4 Vc.; Pn.
Publisher:
Biscardi Music Press No. B48-78-1
(Available on Request)
Text:
“Eurydice,” by H.D.
Dedication:
For the Anna Crusis Women’s Choir under a National Endowment for the Arts Composer/Librettist Grant, 1977-1978.
Commissioner
Anna Crusis Women’s Choir
Program Notes
It is a setting of a poem about Eurydice’s point of view of the Orpheus legend. The work describes the flowering awareness of self, of true self-love. It is a process, a transformation from anger to awareness to the beauty of one’s own strength and affirmation.