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Title

Voices for today

Subtitle / Other TitleAnthem for chorus (men, women and children) with ad libitum accompaniment for organ

Published Opus NoOp. 75

DateJul 1965

DescriptionTexts from Virgil's 'Eclogue IV' (set in Latin), and sentences (set in English) from the Bible New Testament and by Asoka, Sophocles (tr E. F.Watling), Lao Tzu, John Bright, William Penn, Herman Melville, Albert Camus (tr Justin O'Brien), Stanislaw Jerzy Lec, Yevgeny Yevtushenko (tr R. Milner-Gulland and P. Levi), William Blake, Friedrich Hölderlin (tr Michael Hamburger), Alfred, Lord Tennyson and Percy Bysshe Shelley. Written to celebrate twenty years of the United Nations.

Extent11 sources

CopiesMaterial has been microfilmed and is available as follows:
Composition sketch: A17, frames 371 - 393
Discarded sketches: A17, frames 394 - 398
Full score: A17, frames 399 - 434

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