Op. 23a. Medea's Meditation and Dance of Vengeance Study score
195634163New York: G. Schirmer PN 43918 1956. Octavo. Original publisher's yellow printed wrappers with titling to upper publisher's advertisements to lower. 1f. recto title verso instrumentation 53 pp.<br/><br/>Wrappers slightly worn. Light uniform browning. First Edition. Heyman H-123 p. 340.<br/><br/>Medea's Meditation premiered in New York by the Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Dimitri Mitropoulos on 2 February 1956.<br/><br/>"One of the most honoured and most frequently performed American composers in Europe and the Americas during the mid-20th century Barber pursued throughout his career a path marked by a vocally inspired lyricism and a commitment to the tonal language and many of the forms of late 19th-century music. Almost all of his published works - including at least one composition in nearly every genre - entered the repertory soon after he wrote them and many continue to be widely performed today . Barber's ballet score Medea 1946 was composed for Martha Graham; it was subsequently reworked both as an orchestral suite and as a separate orchestral tone poem Medea's Meditation and Dance of Vengeance." Barbara B. Heyman in Grove Music Online. G. Schirmer [PN 43918] unknown books
