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Five Songs from Huckleberry Finn

Orchestrated by Robert Russell Bennett (1952).
Texts by Maxwell Anderson.

Song List
Performance Information

Song list

River Chanty
Catfish Song
Come in, Mornin'
This Time Next Year
Apple Jack
River Chanty (Reprise)

Performance Information

Orchestra: 2.2.2.bass cl.2; 4.2.3.1; piano, timp, perc; strings.
Duration: ca. 20 minutes
Performance Materials: All territories: EAMC
First performance: March 2, 1952, New York, 92nd Street Y, Randolph Symonette, vocalist, Maurice Levine, cond.

Guide to orchestration, territory abbreviations, and publishers' symbols.

 

Also see original version for voice and piano.

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