Sinfonietta No. 1 for Strings

• Various sources give conflicting dates for this piece (probably because primary sources on minority composers remain difficult to access). According to Oxford Music Online (the most recently updated scholarly source I could access), Perkinson composed it in 1956.¹
• According to Perkinson’s publisher Keiser Souther Music, it was first published in 1976.²
• Perkinson composed this work shortly after completing his degree at the Manhattan School of Music (1954), and around the time he took up a professional conducting position with the Dessoff Choirs (1956).³

Movements 

1. Sonata Allegro 
2. Song Form 
3. Rondo⁴

1. Carman Moore and Anya Laurence, “Perkinson, Coleridge-Taylor,” Grove Music Online (February 6, 2012), accessed December 28, 2021, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-1002219404.
2. ¹³“Sinfonietta No. 1 for Strings,” Keiser Southern Music, accessed December 28, 2021, https://www.keisersouthernmusic.com/compositions/sinfonietta-no-1-strings-fs.
3. Moore and Laurence, “Perkinson, Coleridge-Taylor,” Grove Music Online
4. “Sinfonietta No. 1 for Strings,” Keiser Southern Music, accessed December 28, 2021, https://www.keisersouthernmusic.com/compositions/sinfonietta-no-1-strings-fs.