Susanna and the Elders
General Info
Year: 1978
Duration: 35:00
Difficulty: VI (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Jesse Ayers
Cost: Contact composer Contact Page
Instrumentation
- B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
- B-flat Bass Clarinet
- Percussion (1 player, multiple instruments)
- Narrator (optional)
- Mezzo soprano (optional, used on one number only)
- Dancers (optional)
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
A 35-minute theater piece based on the story of the same name from the Apocrypha. The work is modeled loosely on Stravinsky's L'Histoire du Soldat (which the composer has performed under Robert Craft).
It is scored for 3 Bb clarinets, 1 bass clarinet, and 1 percussionist playing a modest "multiple" setup. There are eight dances, or tableaus, with the mezzo soprano being included only on the sixth dance at the crux of the conflict.
Most, if not all, of the eight dances are suitable to be performed alone.
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
None discovered thus far.
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Akedah
- And They Gathered on Mount Carmel (1995)
- Fanfare and Carol for Christmas
- Fanfare for Christmas Morning (1995)
- Fanfare for Christmas Morning (Brass) (1995)
- The Fire of the Living God (1995)
- Flashbax (2011)
- The Incantations of the Prophets of Baal (1995)
- Jericho (2005)
- The Magical Mystical Rain Forest (1991)
- The Passion of John Brown
- The Prayer of Elijah (1995)
- Private Eye Prowl
- Rachel Weeping for Her Children September 11 2001 (2002)
- Rahab
- Shinkansen (2019/2022)
- Susanna and the Elders (1978)
- Veni Emmanuel (1997)
- Where the Stormy Winds Blow (2022)
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