City Trees

Composer: BEACH, Priscilla Alden
  • Beach composed this work in 1928, while she was a master’s composition student at the Eastman School of Music. She originally wrote the work for piano, then arranged it for orchestra.1 
  • Howard Hanson, Eastman’s Director, conducted the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra in the work’s premiere on June 8, 1928 in Kilbourn Recital Hall at Eastman.2

Sources

  1. Kile Smith, “Fleisher Discoveries: Patricia Alden Beach and Molly Kien,” KileSmith.co (March 2, 2020), accessed March 18, 2022, https://kilesmith.com/2020/03/02/fleisher-discoveries-priscilla-alden-beach-and-molly-kien/.
  2. “Patricia Alden Beach City Trees Program Notes,” Lansdowne Symphony Orchestra, accessed March 18, 2022, https://www.lansdowneso.org/priscilla-alden-beach-city-trees.

Cut IDs

24127