Sandburg Suite
Victoria Bond
About this work:
Premiere: Aug. 16, 1980 White Barn Theater, Connecticut
Margaret Beals Dance Company
Recording: Character Sketches, Nanette Kaplan Solomon; Leonarda Commissioned by Margaret Beals, this ballet is
designed to be danced while the dancer recites the poem, "Working Girls" by Carl Sandburg. The melodic material is
based on American folk music and the mood of the five variations range from folk to blues, from ragtime to gospel.
Review: "Immediately appealing"
--Discovery
Seesaw Music Corporation
Attention: Raoul Ronson
2067 Broadway
New York, NY 10023
Tel: (212) 874-1200
Year composed: 1980
Duration: 00:07:00
Ensemble type: Opera/Theater:One-Act Operas
Instrumentation: 1 Piano
Instrumentation notes: pno