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- Lark
- Form: Baritone solo and unaccompanied mixed chorus
- Date: 1938
- Text: Genevieve Taggard
- First performance: 13 April 1943. New York. Collegiate Chorale, cond. Robert Shaw
- Publisher: E.C. Schirmer
- Date of publication: 1941
- Timing: 4'
- Dedication: “to Alma Wiener”
- Las Agachadas (The Shake-Down Song)
- Form: Unaccompanied mixed chorus
- Date: 1942
- Text: from Kurt Schindler, Folk Music and Poetry of Spain and Portugal
- Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes
- Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes
- Date of publication: 1942
- Timing: 3'
- Notes: An arrangement of melody no. 202 in Schindler’s collection Folk Music and Poetry of Spain and Portugal
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- Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
- Form: Chorus and orchestra
- Date: 1949
- Text: Ecclesiasticus 44:1-14
- Notes: meant to celebrate Serge Koussevitzky’s 25th year conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The opening idea was reused in Canticle of Freedom. An orchestral interlude foreshadows the opening motive of the Piano Fantasy
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- Letter from Home
- Form: Radio orchestra
- Date: 1944
- First performance: 17 October 1944. Philco Radio Hour Orchestra, cond. Paul Whiteman
- Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes
- Date of publication: 1964
- Timing: 6'
- Notes: Originally scored for radio orchestra; rescored for standard orchestra by the composer, 1944. Standard-orchestra version revised in 1962
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- Lincoln Portrait
- Form: Narrator and orchestra
- Date: 1942
- First performance: 14 May 1942. Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, cond. André Kostelanetz
- Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes
- Date of publication: 1942
- Timing: 14'
- Dedication: André Kostelanetz
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