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Micomicón

  • Year
    2002
  • Duration
    3'
  • Category
    Orchestra
Instrumentation
2.picc.2.corA.1.bcl.dbcl.2.dbn-4.3.3.1-timp.perc(2):susp.cym/3tom-t/BD/marimba/cyms/xyl-harp-pft-strings
Contained In
Three Illusions for Orchestra (2002)
Buy Score
Hendon Music (Boosey & Hawkes)
Manuscripts
Paul Sacher Stiftung
Premiere
Jan 15, 2004/ Boston Symphony Orchestra / James Levine/ Symphony Hall, Boston, MA

Micomicón, invented by Sancho Panza and his friends to cure Don Quixote’s “madness”, is said to be a kingdom near Ethiopia stolen by a giant from its queen, Micomicona, who beseeches the adventurous Don Q. to put her back on the throne (in Cervantes’ great novel, chapters 29-30, book 1). This brief score was commissioned by the Boston Symphony as a present to the extraordinary James Levine. It was composed in New York in 2002.

– Elliott Carter
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