The Outermost House

Commission year: 
1990
Grant recipient: 
Chatham Chorale

Chatham, MA

Narrator, Soprano solo, SATB chorus. Based on The Outermost House by Henry Beston (published 1928), which recounts the experience of living for a year in a two-room cottage on the beach in Eastham, Cape Cod. To honor retired music director Marjorie Bennett Morley.

Recording available on Albany Records.

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Premiere date: 
Saturday, November 16, 1991