First Chapter of Ecclesiastes



Category: Musical composition
Dated: (fall?) 1932
Instrumentation: Piano (and voice?)
Duration:
Premiere and performer(s): The Preacher: November 1932
Dedicated to: ---
Choreography: ---
Published: ---
Manuscript: Holograph (11 p.) and Sketches (6 p.) heirs Harry Hay (?). Copies in New York Public Library


Some lines have English text from the book of Ecclesiastes written above staff. Sketches consist of 4 parts: The Preacher; The Wind; The Rivers; Labour. Holograph may be incomplete.
The composition was improvised at the piano.