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The Enormous Room by David Diamond Orchestra - Sheet Music

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The Enormous Room by David Diamond Orchestra - Sheet Music

By David Diamond
Orchestra

SKU: PR.621688560

Composed by David Diamond. This edition: saddle-wire stitch. Sws. Score. With Standard notation. Peermusic Classical #62168-856. Published by Peermusic Classical (PR.621688560).

UPC: 680160565962.

A freeform fantasy based on scenes in E.E. Cummings's "The Enormous Room," the story of Cummings's service as an ambulance driver in the First World War, and his time spent in a French prison (he had been arrested in error). Two passages from the novel are illustrated in the music: the first, describing a snowfall observed from the prison, which opens Diamond's work; the second from the end of the novel, where Cummings writes: "Things new and curious and hard and strange and vibrant and immense, lifting with a great ondulous stride firmly into immortal sunlight...".