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From "Quartet for Piano and Strings" to "Quiet City" (2 works)
- Quartet for Piano and Strings
- Date: 1950
- First performance: 29 October 1950. Washington, D.C. New York Piano Quartet
- Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes
- Date of publication: 1952
- Timing: 23'
- Dedication: "to Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge"
- Contents: I. Adagio serio II. Allegro giusto III. Non troppo lento
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- Quiet City
- Form: Trumpet, English horn, and string orchestra
- Date: 1940
- First performance: 28 January 1941. New York: Saidenberg Little Symphony, cond. Saidenberg
- Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes
- Date of publication: 1941
- Timing: 10'
- Dedication: "to Ralph Hawkes."
- Notes: Based on music written in 1939 for Irwin Shaw's play "Quiet City," which was withdrawn after two preview performances, the first on April 16, 1939. The music for the play was scored for clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, and piano. The orchestral work is scored for trumpet, English horn, and strings
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