Summer

Instrumentation: 3 Sopranos, 2 Mezzo Soprano, Tenor, 2 Baritone, Bass-Baritone, Actors, 2-1-2-1/2-1-2-0/Timp./2 Percussion/Harp/ Strings (6-5-3-3-1) Duration: 115:00 Minutes Commissioned by: Berkshire Opera Company, National Endowment for the Arts, Kenneth and Julia Dayton, Jonas and Elizabeth Dovydenas, Ginger and George Elvin, Robin G. and Sharon M. Holloway, Ruth Landfield, J. Murray Logan, Joan Mannion and Monte Engler, Tucker and Thorne Taylor Premiered by: Berkshire Opera Company; 15th Anniversiary Celebration, Koussevitsky Arts Center, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Aug and Sep 1999; Joel Revzen, Conductor, Mary Duncan, Stage Director Copyright 1999 Publisher: EAM Text author: Joan Vail Thorne