Material relating to Musgrave's ballet 'Beauty and the beast', ballet in two acts, completed in 1969 for choreographer Peter Darrell, to a scenario by Colin Graham, based on 'Belle et la Bête' by Mme de Villeneuve. Tape in collaboration with Daphne Oram.
Thea Musgrave: 'Poets in Love', for tenor, baritone, and piano four hands
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Words by: Afanasy Fet; Shakespeare; anonymous (first published in the sixteenth century); Hölderlin; Juan de Tasis; Goethe; Rainer Maria Rilke; Francis William Bourdillon; anonymous/traditional Haida, translated by Constance Lindsay Skinner; anonymous circa 1554; Pentadius (circa 3rd century AD);...
'Simón Bolívar', opera in two acts. Libretto by the composer, in English and Spanish, the Spanish version written with assistance from Lillian Garrett-Groag. Commissioned jointly by the Los Angeles Music Center Opera Association and Scottish Opera. World première given by Virginia Opera, conducte...
'Echoes Through Time', for women's voices and chamber orchestra, libretto by Christa Cooper. The work includes a Prologue for tape and chamber orchestra and two Epilogues for tape only (the sixth movement of the main work, at fig. 107, is also entitled 'Epilogue'). The Epilogues also form a stand...