- Title
- The River
- Availability
- Unpublished
- Category
- Film Score
- Instrumentation
- 1.2.2.1.-2.2.2.0.-2 perc.(including timp.)-banjo-str
- Duration
- 36'
- Publisher
- Manuscript
- Premiere
- World: Strand Theatre, New Orleans, LA, October 29th, 1937
- Versions
- Suite from "The River" (W14)
- Year Composed
- 1937
- M.S. Location
- The Virgil Thomson Papers at Irving S. Gilmore Music Library at Yale University
- Cardell Number
- n/a
- Meckna Number
- W317
- Notes
Film by Pare Lorentz
Produced by the Works Projects Administration-Farm Security Administration
35 mm. version, 36 min.
16 mm. version, 27 min.
Filmtrack production: Alexander Smallens conducting members of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra; musical supervision by Virgil Thomson
- Related Persons
- Pare Lorentz (Film)
- Works Project Administration (Production)
- Farm Security Administration (Production)
- Alexander Smallens (Filmtrack Production)
