Basic Details

Title
A Portrait of Two, for Joell Amar
Availability
Out of Print
Category
Chamber
Instrumentation
oboe, bassoon, and piano
Duration
5'
Publisher
G. Schirmer Inc.

Cataloging Information

Copyright
©1986 G. Schirmer
Year Composed
1984
Year Published
1986
M.S. Location
The Virgil Thomson Papers at Irving S. Gilmore Music Library at Yale University
Cardell Number
n/a
Meckna Number
W206

Portrait Info

Subject
Joell Amar, Benjamin Zifkin
Tommasini ID
130

Additional Info

Notes

Movement I, Tempo commodo - finished 8 April, 1984; New York, NY

Movement II, Andante - finished 19 April, 1984; New York, NY

Movement III, Alert - finished 19 April, 1984; New York, NY

Portrait of Joell Amar, bassoonist, and Dr. Benjamin Zifkin, neurologist. Benjamin Zifkin posed for the first movement of A Portrait of Two, Joell Amar of the second movement, and both of them for the third.

Recordings

Thomson: Portraits, Self-Portraits and Songs. Anthony Tommasini, piano, with Sharan Leventhal, violin, Nancy Armstrong soprano, and others. Everbest Music Media 1002