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Holiday Overture

  • Year
    1944 (rev. 1961)
  • Duration
    10'
  • Category
    Orchestra
Instrumentation
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Awards
First prize ($500 and publication), Independent Music Publishers Contest, 1945. The judges were Serge Koussevitzky, Nicolai Berezowsky, and Aaron Copland
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Manuscripts
  1. Paul Sacher Stiftung
  2. Library of Congress (Holograph score, one page of corrections for mm. 31-38.)
Premiere
1946/ Frankfurt Symphony Orchestra, Hans Blumer (cond)/ Frankfurt
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Recordings (4)
  • The Music of Elliott Carter, Volume Six
    Bridge Records 9177 (2005)
    Rolf Schulte, violin | Odense Symphony Orchestra, Donald Palma, conductor
  • Elliott Carter: Symphony No.1; Piano Concerto
    Naxos 8.559151 (2004)
    Mark Wait, piano | Nashville Symphony Orchestra | Kenneth Schermerhorn, conductor
  • American Masters: Elliott Carter
    CRI CD 610 (1991)
    American Composers Orchestra, Paul Dunkel | Jan DeGaetani, mezzo-soprano | Thomas Paul | Speculum Musicae | The Group for Contemporary Music
  • Elliott Carter: The Early Music
    CRI SD 475; ACS 6003 (1982)
    American Composers Orchestra, Paul Dunkel
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