(Woodwind Quintet). By Eric Ewazen. For Woodwind Quintet. Woodwind Solos & Ensembles - Woodwind Quintet. Southern Music. Grade 5. 156 pages. Southern Music Company #SU521CO. Published by Southern Music Company

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It is rare that a composition is conceived first for winds then later transcribed for orchestra, but such is the case with Suite Francaise. Premiered by the famed Goldman Band in 1945, this magnificent work in five movements is one of the enduring classics of the symphonic band repertoire, and continues to be a popular choice for contests and festivals. (17:00)

This recording used with permission from the Klavier Music Productions CD K 11058. “Postcards” by the Cincinnati Wind Symphony – Eugene Migliaro Corporon, conductor

The Ghosts of Versailles is an opera in two acts, with music by John Corigliano to an English libretto by William M. Hoffman. The Metropolitan Opera had commissioned the work from Corigliano in 1980 in celebration of its 100th anniversary, with the premiere scheduled for 1983. Corigliano and Hoffman took as the starting point for the opera the play La Mère coupable (The Guilty Mother) by Pierre Beaumarchais.[1] They took seven years to complete the opera, past the initial deadline. The opera received its premiere on December 19, 1991, at the Metropolitan Opera, with the production directed by Colin Graham. The premiere run of seven performances was sold out.[2][3] The original cast included Teresa Stratas, Håkan Hagegård, Renée Fleming, Graham Clark, Gino Quilico, and Marilyn Horne. The Metropolitan Opera revived the opera in the 1994/1995 season.[4]

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prologue et un acte de "la torture par l'expérience" du conte Villiers de l'Isle-Adam,
"da"La Légende d'Eulenspiegel et de Lamme Goedzak" di Charles de Coster

1981
Palester completes Etudes for piano and Symphony no. 5.

23 September –1988 Palester’s Symphony no. 5 is performed at the Warsaw Autumn Festival.