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Last Letter Home
for SATB choir and string quartet (with optional double bass)
text by Private First Class Jesse Givens
Edition: Performance material
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Description
Lee Hoiby’s Last Letter Home is the setting to music of a letter by US Army tank crewman, Jesse Givens, who had been in Iraq for just a month when, on May 1, 2003, his tank crashed and fell into a canal off the Euphrates River. The rest of the crew escaped through a hatch, but Givens perished trapped inside the tank. Hoiby’s intention was to set Givens’ words as clearly as possible, writing it in three-part form for one tenor and two baritone parts.
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Title:
Last Letter Home
for SATB choir and string quartet (with optional double bass)
text by Private First Class Jesse Givens
Language:
English
Edition:
Performance material
Publisher/Label:
Schott Music
Year of composition:
2006
Duration:
7 ′0 ′′
World Premiere:
November 8, 2009 · La Jolla, CA (USA)
St. James by-the-Sea Episcopal Church Choir · Choir director: Steven Townsend
St. James by-the-Sea Episcopal Church Choir · Choir director: Steven Townsend
Technical Details
Media Type:
Hire/performance material
Product number:
LSMC 50287
Delivery rights:
Worldwide
Manufacturer:
Performances
Last Letter Home
Conductor: Dan Perkins
Orchestra: Plymouth State University
June 13, 2015 |
Concord, NH (United States of America) , St. Paul's Episcopal Church
Last Letter Home
Conductor: David Hodgkins
Orchestra: Coro Allegro
April 7, 2013 |
Cambridge, MA (United States of America) , Sanders Theater
Last Letter Home
Conductor: Douglas Mears
Orchestra: Fairfax Choral Society
March 20, 2010 |
Alexandria, VA (United States of America) , Arts Center
Last Letter Home
November 8, 2009 |
La Jolla, CA (United States of America) — World Premiere
St. James by-the-Sea Episcopal Church
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