Watchmans Report, The
| Full title | The Watchmans Report for baritone, chorus, and piano / Wächters Botschaft | |
| Date composed | 1941 | |
| Details |
Composition completed January 1941; the work is based on Bach's chorale Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme from cantata BWV 140. Text by John Bowring; translated into German by Vally Weigl. Vocal range: Bb–f' Dedication: Dedicated to Germantown Friends School. |
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| Manuscript sources | NYPL JPB 78-22, reduced reproduction of holograph clean copy (5 pages), with composer's note at bottom: Dedicated to Germantown Friends School / January 194[1]; and note at end: January 194 [lfinal number missing]. | |
| Publication details | John Markert and Co., 1955; op. 39 posthumously assigned by publisher. | |
| Availabiity | Published score and parts from ACA; published score and photocopy of composer's six-page holograph clean copy from KWF. | |
| Recordings | ||
Performances (click
icon to expand or collapse list)| 8 December 1957 | Columbus, Ohio, Ohio State University Choral Festival: Ohio State Univerity Chorus, cond. L.H. Diercks, with Betty Lee Brown, piano. |
| 10 December 1961 | Thames Hall, Ontario, Canada: University of Western Ontario Choir, cond. Alfred Rosé, with Jean Houston. |
| 22 February 2014 | London, Royal College of Music, Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall, Singing a Song in a Foreign Land festival: The Refugee performed by Rose Setten, soprano, and Claire Harris, piano; and The Watchman’s Report performed by Julien van Mellaerts, baritone, Claire Harris, piano, and the Royal College of Music Chamber Choir, cond. Stephen Johns. Also on the program: Robert Kahn, Trio in G minor op. 45; Joseph Horovitz, String Quartet No. 5; Hans Gál, Britische Volkslieder; Ernst Toch, Valse for chorus and percussion; and Hanns Eisler, Little Woodbury Songbook (see http://www.rcm.ac.uk/singingasong/stringquartet). |
