Ahab Symphony • 2013

Texts by Herman Melville and W.H.Auden

From Melville’s Moby-Dick and W.H.Auden’s poem “Herman Melville”

Choral & Orchestral
SATB & Full Orchestra

World Premiere: April 24, 2013
Commissioned by University of North Texas

First Performance: tenor Richard Croft and the UNT Symphony Orchestra and Grand Chorus, conducted by David Itkin
Murchison Hall, Denton, TX

Duration: 28’

Resources

Overview
Instrumentation
Recordings
Scores

I. Dawn
II. The Wind
III. The Narrow Balcony
IV. The Pieces

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