- Title
- The Tender Land
- For
- orchestra
- Year Composed
- 1958
- Scoring
- 2.picc.1.corA.2(II=bcl).2-4.3.3.1-timp.perc(2):glsp/xyl/susp.cym/tgl/ wdbl/whip/BD/SD/rattle-harp-cel-pft(ad lib)-strings
- ARCO Number(s)
- 77
- Category
- Orchestral
- Duration
- 21'
- Movements
- 1. Introduction and Love Music
- 2. Party Scene
- 3. Finale: Promise of Living
- Premiere
- World: Chicago, April 10th, 1958 (Chicago Symphony Orchestra, cond. Fritz Reiner)
- Publisher
- Boosey & Hawkes
- Publishing Status
- Published
Buying Options
Boosey & HawkesProgram Note
Following the less than enthusiastic reception of his only full length opera, Copland arranged an orchestral suite from the score. It includes the love duet, the lively square dance, and the stirring and beautiful The Promise of Living drawn from the quintet at the end of the opera's first act. The composer was gratified when the Suite garnered the good reviews he had hoped the opera would inspire. In 1996, Murry Sidlin created a new suite for soprano, tenor and chamber ensemble based on his successful reduced orchestration of the opera, which uses the same scoring as the 13 instrument version of Appalachian Spring.
- Author
- Vivian Perlis
- Year
- 1998
