- Title
- Statements
- For
- orchestra
- Alternate Title
- Statements for Orchestra (Alternate/Synonymous)
- Year Composed
- 1935
- Scoring
- 3(III=picc).2.corA.2.bcl.2.dbn-4.3.3.1-timp.perc(4):glsp/cyms/tam-t/ whip/BD/SD-strings
- ARCO Number(s)
- 25
- Category
- Orchestral
- Duration
- 19'
- Movements
- 1. Militant
- 2. Cryptic
- 3. Dogmatic
- 4. Subjective Extracted From: Elegies (1932)
- 5. Jingo
- 6. Prophetic
- Premieres
- 1. Partial: Minneapolis, January 9th, 1936 (Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, Cond. Eugene Ormandy)
- 2. World: New York, January 7th, 1942 (New York Philharmonic Orchestra, cond. Dimitri Mitropoulos)
- Commission Info
- League of Composers for the Minneapolis Symphony and Eugene Ormandy
- Dedication
- To Mary Senior Churchill
- Publisher
- Boosey & Hawkes
- Publishing Status
- Published
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Program Note
Comprised of six short movements each with a title "to aid the public in understanding what I had in mind when writing the movements." Titled Military, Cryptic, Dogmatic, Subjective, Jingo, and Prophetic, the movements are occasionally performed individually or in groups. In fact, only the last two were played for the premiere. Statements was not heard in its entirety until 1942. In a review, Virgil Thomson wrote, "They are clearly written and very, very personal. The whole group is a manly bouquet, fresh and sweet and sincere and frank and straightforward."
- Author
- Vivian Perlis
- Year
- 1998