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george crumb

Buy the sheetmusic!Unto the Hills
Texts  from Appalachian folk songs

year 2001

instrumentation Soprano, piano, percussion quartet

commission Commissioned by Orchestra 2001

première First performed by Ann Crumb (soprano), Marcantonio Barone (piano), Orchestra 2001, James Freeman (conductor).  Saturday October 5th, 2002 at Trinity Center, Philadelphia.
publisher C.F. Peters 

recordings

movements
  1. Poor Wayfaring Stranger
  2. All the Pretty Little Horses (An Appalachian Lullaby)
  3. Ten Thousand Miles
  4. Appalachian Epiphany: A Psalm for Sunset and Dusk (Instrumental Interlude)
  5. Ev'ry Night When the Sun Goes In
  6. Black, Black, Black is the Color
  7. The Riddle
  8. Poor Wayfaring Stranger (Echo)

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