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| F | As planned, 22 Mar 1946 | |
| M | Pencil draft complete in 48m, plus repeats, on 3p, the 5 parts on 3 staves | |
| 689 | Grandma's Rhumba [for band] Allegro quasi andante [?1] | |
| D | Contract with BMI dated 14 May 1946 | |
| I | 324( + E\>, a, & b cl)2 4 sax (2 a, t, bar) 4 cor, 3 tpt, 4 E^ hn, | |
| 2 | bar hn, 3 tbn timp, perc. (Symphonic band adds 4 F hn, db, & | |
| 4 | additional parts.) | |
| F | Cowell papers indicate HC expected to guest-conduct the All-State Band of Michigan in the first performance of this work, apparently in Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor, during the All-State Band's annual meeting there in March 1947; Professor Emeritus William D. Revelli in conversation recalled the work and a performance of it. But the archivist of the Band has reported finding no record of a performance of the Rhumba in the Band's programs during 1946-49 (archives at the Interlochen Academy, Interlochen, MI). The archives of the American Bandmasters Association at the University of Maryland also do not reveal any evidence of a performance anywhere in 1947?by which time the condensed score and parts had been published. Perhaps the performance was by another band under different auspices. | |
| M | Pencil condensed score on 2 and 3 staves, essentially complete on 5p | |
| P | Condensed score (lip) and parts copyright 1946, BMI | |
| 690 | Air Held Her Breath Canon for SATB For Sidney June 2,1946 / Henry Cowell [AP XVII] Allegretto quasi andante | |
| D | 2 Jun 1946 (SRC's birthday) | |
| T | The 8th of 11 quatrains in Abraham Lincoln's letter of 6 Sep 1846 to a boyhood friend, William Johnston. Having previously sent Johnston "a little canto of what I called poetry," and having prom- ised to "bore you with another some time, I now fulfill the promise. The subject . . . Mathew Gentry [another boyhood friend, who] at nineteen became insane. When ... I visited my old home in the fall of 1844 I found him still lingering in this wretched condition. In my poetizing mood, I could not forget the impression his case made upon | |
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