- Title
- Seven Choruses from the "Medea" of Euripides
- Availability
- Available
- Category
- Choral
- Instrumentation
- (SSAA) or (SATB)-perc ad lib
- Duration
- 10'
- Publisher
- G. Schirmer Inc.
- Commission
- Commissioned by John Houseman
- Premieres
- 1. World: Women's Chorus: Hotel Plaza Ballroom, New York City, NY, December 16th, 1942 (St. Cecelia Club; Hugh Ross, conductor; David Gusikoff, percussion)
- 2. World: Mixed Chorus: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Cambridge, MA, June 13th, 1967 (Choir of King's Chapel; Daniel Pinkham, conductor; Frederick Buda, percussion)
- Edition/Catalog #
- Rental (Worldwide)
- Parts/Movements
- O Gentle Heart
- Love, Like a Leaf
- O, Happy Were Our Fathers
- Weep for the Little Lambs
- God Down, O Sun
- Behold, O Earth
- Immortal Zeus Controls the Fate of Man
- Copyright
- ©1942 Weaner-Levant; ©1970 G. Schirmer
- Year Composed
- 1934
- Date Composed
- Aug 1934
- Year Published
- 1942
- M.S. Location
- The Virgil Thomson Papers at Irving S. Gilmore Music Library at Yale University
- Cardell Number
- C14[A-B]
- Meckna Number
- W73
- Notes
Also arranged for mixed chorus (SATB) by Daniel Pinkham (1967; G. Schirmer)
- Related Persons
- Hugh Ross (Conductor)
- Daniel Pinkham (Conductor)
- John Houseman (Commission)
- Countee Cullen (English Translation)
