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BTC931 AN AMERICAN IN ENGLAND NO 6: THE ANGLO-AMERICAN ANGLE

Radio score
Composition date: pre 7 Sep 1942
Genre: Incidental music
Performing forces:

Fl, ob, 2 cl in B flat and A, 2 bn - 2 hn in F, 2 tpt in C, trbn, bass trbn - timp, perc (xyl, vib, trgl, susp cymb, sd, bd) - harp - 3 vn, 2 va, 2 vc, db

Notes

The sixth of a series of six dramas by Norman Corwin (b. 1910). Produced from England for live transmission in the United States the series was designed to inform an American audience about conditions in wartime Britain. It was also broadcast on the various Forces' Networks in the UK, Canada and Australia.

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