Title American weather : antiphonal motet for two widely separated choral ensembles : 1976 / Henry Brant ; text compiled and adapted from William Penn (in chorus I) and Henry D. Thoreau (in chorus II) by Patricia Brant.

Publication Info.

Item Status

Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Talbott Westminster Archives	M1531.B736 A6	Lib Use Only	Ask Librarian for access		Gift of the composer.

Description	1 score (39 leaves) ; 36 cm
Playing Time	000500
Description	score
Note	Ensemble I: full choir (SATB) with trombone and chimes (all on stage); ensemble II: 8 solo voices (SSMzMzTTBarBar) with trumpet and glockenspiel (all at the back of the hall).
	Title from inside cover.
	Reproduced from holograph.
	Duration: 5:00.
	At head of title: Commissioned by the Westminster Choir College.
	At end: Feb. 1976 New York ; Bennington, Vt.
	"Notes on performance": 3 leaves (typescript ; 28 cm.) taped in preceding score.
Local Note	Signed by the composer on cover: Bicentennial greetings from Henry Brant to the Westminster Choir College and its president, Dr. Ray Robinson, and to the members of the Westminster Choir and their conductor, Professor Joseph Flummerfelt. New York, Feb. 1976.
Subject	Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices) with instrumental ensemble -- Scores.
	Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices) with instrumental ensemble -- Scores.
Genre/Form	Motets.
	Motets.
Subject	Brant, Henry, 1913-2008 -- Manuscripts -- Facsimiles.
	Brant, Henry, 1913-2008.
Genre/Form	Manuscripts.
	Facsimiles.
Subject	Penn, William, 1644-1718 -- Musical settings.
	Penn, William, 1644-1718.
Genre/Form	Musical settings.
Subject	Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 -- Musical settings.
	Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862.
Genre/Form	Scores.
	Scores.
	Musical settings.
	Facsimiles.
Added Author	Brant, Patricia, lyricist.
	Penn, William, 1644-1718, lyricist.
	Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862, lyricist.
	Westminster Choir College.