"It's always seemed to me that instruments, in a certain sense, offer one materials for composition just by virtue of having, as they always do, built-in "character-structure," so to speak, which can be suggestive of musical possibilities both on the level of sonority and on that of actual music behavior"
Key Works
1936
Tarantella
for Male Chorus and Orchestra
1939
Ballet,Pocahontas
1944
The Harmony of Morning
for Female Chorus and Small Orchestra
Symphony
No.1
1947
Ballet,The Minotaur
1956
Variations for Orchestra
1961
Double Concerto
for Harpsichord and Piano with 2 Chamber Orchestra
1965
Concerto
for Piano
1969
Concerto,for Orchestra
1975
A Mirror on Which to Dwell
for Soprano and 9 players
