| Category: | Musical composition |
| Dated: | 1939 |
| Instrumentation: | 2 Pianos (partially four-hands) and toy-instruments |
| Duration: | |
| Premiere and performer(s): | March 24, 1939 at the Cornish School in Seattle at the "Hilarious Dance Concert", with additional music by Henry Cowell and George Frederick McKay. |
| Dedicated to: | --- |
| Choreography: | Bonnie Bird |
| Published: | --- |
| Manuscript: | Score and some parts (holograph, signed, in pencil and ink - 50 p.); Fragment for percussion, uncertain, may be related to this composition (holograph in pencil - 4 p.), both at the New York Public Library. |
| Contents of the composition: You are on the 1st platform of the Eiffel Tower - Wedding march:
Rubbish music - Everybody is deeply moved - Bravo (after Trouville Bathing Beauty) - Massacre - Photographer's
case - After child - Radio grams - Radiograms (cont.) pt.2 - Lion - Help it's biting me! - Dirge, funeral march & eulogy -
3 o'clock and that ostrich isn't back yet - Quadrille - Oof, what a dance! - Return of the ostrich - But who are these
two gentlemen who have just come in time to upset the photographer again? - Just in time - The dealer and
collector leave the Eiffel Tower - Wedding march (exit) - Closing time! (after exit) - Toccata. Libretto by Jean Cocteau. |