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| [95] | T | Source unknown: an invocation addressed to "Maker of Day, Stayer of Night. ..." |
| M | Pencil draft complete in 16m on 2p | |
| C | An accompanying note by SRC tells that HC intended this as the open- ing chorus of what he referred to as "The Opera"; but it was the only number composed. The characters: Akio (mezzo soprano), Ruhio (con- tralto), and Maki (baritone). Mixed chorus and piano are reinforced by "drums sempre." | |
| 96 | † | [Concerto or piece for piano and orchestra] |
| D | 18 Mar 1914 (CD 64). In August 1914 HC's mother jotted down, in an account of his activities, that "in April 1914 he gave two concerts in Pacific Grove. One included a concerto of his own composition. He led the orchestra, which numbered only four or five pieces." She further cited a letter from him to her, dated 29 Mar 1914 at Carmel, in which he reported "The concerto was performed awfully well." | |
| C | No copy is known to have survived, and the entry in CD is unclear [see frontispiece]. At first glance the title seems to read "Concert piece to a b + orchestra" with "piano with orchestra" in the adjoining col- umn. But this reading is awkward and ignores the way "piece" has been crowded in between "Concert" and "to," which are in larger script. HC may have intended "Concerto" but have hesitated modestly in mid-tide, ending up with "Concerto (or Concert Piece) in A-flat with Orchestra." At any rate, this must be the work that the com- poser called a concerto in writing to his mother, and it had already been performed when he wrote her on 29 Mar 1914. | |
| 97 | In the Tropics [for piano] Andantino?lazily | |
| D | 20 Mar 1914 (CD 65). "To Dorcas Powers" (CD). | |
| M | Pencil draft complete in 29m on Ip | |
| C | This piece and a companion. In the Frigids, are reported in the San Francisco Chronicle (26 Jul 1914, mag sec, p28, coll) to have been played under a collective title. The Zones, at a musicale of Mrs. George McGowan, featuring HC. No music under these latter titles has been found, although both are mentioned more than once in Cowell papers. | |
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