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From "John Henry" to"Jubilee Variation" (2 works)

John Henry
Form: Radio orchestra
Date: 1940
First performance: 5 March 1940. Columbia Symphony Orchestra, cond. Howard Barlow
Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes
Date of publication: 1953
Timing: 4'
Notes: Revised for standard small orchestra, 1952. A version for school orchestra was published by Boosey & Hawkes in 1982
Jubilee Variation
Form: Orchestra
Date: 1944-1945
First performance: 23 March 1945. Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, cond. Eugene Goossens
Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes
Date of publication: 1987
Timing: 2'
Notes: Copland’s movement for a work in which each of several composers wrote a variation on a theme by Eugene Goossens