Orchestral Works by Ernst Bacon
Title Description Premier Remarks Score Available from Recording
Bearwalla A funny piece - 4 minutes   Traditional tunes Fleisher Collection  
Black and White Songs 5 songs for Orchestra and Baritone - 12 minutes Rochester Civic Orchestra, Gut Harrison, cond. George Houston, solo Traditional text and tunes Fleisher Collection  
Concerto Grosso 4 movements. 19 minutes Stanford University Symphony, E. Bacon, cond. 1957 Also playable as a quintet Fleisher Collection  
Elegy Elegy on an ancient Venetian melody - 9 minutes Memorial concert, Marin Symphony, E, Bacon, cond. 1957 Written on the death of Gastone Usigli Fleisher Collection  
Enchanted Isle, The (1945) Characters and episodes in Shakespeare's "Tempest" - 22 minutes     G. Schirmer  
Erie Waters Short suite, 4 movements - 13 minutes Utica Symphony Americana (easy) Fleisher Collection  
Fables 6 Fables for Narrator and Orchestra - 23 minutes NY Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, Robert Shaw, cond. Edward Everett Horton, Narrator, 12/15/1953 Text by John Edmunds and E. Bacon. Fleisher Collection  
Ford's Theatre (1943) A cycle on Lincoln's last days, based on Paul Horgan's play, "Death Mr. President" - 32 minutes Southern Symphony, Carl Bamberger, cond. 4/4/1946   G. Schirmer Abraham Lincoln Portraits. Nashville Symphony Chorus & Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin
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From These States (1951) Orchestral suite - 30 minutes NBC Symphony, Columbia University Festival, L. Barzin, cond. 5/12/1946 The people's song as seen through climate, industry, amusement, travel and geography G. Schirmer  
Great River Symphony Symphony in episodes for Narrator and Orchestra - 30 minutes Dallas Symphony Orchestra, W. Hendl, cond. 2/11/1957 Text by Paul Horgan. Episodes in the course and history of the Rio Grande Fleisher Collection  
Midnight Special 4 songs for medium voice and Orchestra - 8 minutes San Francisco Federal Orchestra, E. Bacon, cond. 1936 Traditional text and tunes Fleisher Collection  
Muffin Man, The Large Orchestra - 5 Minutes   Several lively and humourous variations on the children's song, introducing the instruments of the orchestra. G. Schirmer  
My River 5 songs for medium voice and Orchestra - 10 minutes   Texts of Emily Dickinson Fleisher Collection  
Nantucket Fling Orchestra - 6 minutes     Fleisher Collection  
Prelude and Fugue 7 minutes American Music Festival, Rochester Civic Orchestra, Howard Hanson, cond. 5/1/1925   Fleisher Collection  
Remembering Ansel Adams Elegy for strings and clarinet San Jose Symphony,George Cleve, cond. 1986 Elegy to Bacons lifelong friend Produced by Master Musicians Collective Fleisher Collection Remembering Ansel Adams (CRI 779)
Riolama (10 Places for Piano and Orchestra Concerto (2 piano reduction available) 25 minutes Syracuse Symphony Orchestra, Karl Kritz, cond. E. Bacon, solo A series of tone paintings of places, real and imagined Fleisher Collection  
Smokey Mountain Scherzo (1937) 2nd Movement from Symphony #2     G. Schirmer  
Songs of Eternity 4 songs for Baritone or contralto and Orchestra - 11 minutes San Francisco Federal Orchestra, E. Bacon, cond. 1936 Text by Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman Ernst Bacon Society  
Symphony No. 1 (1930) 4 movements (2 Piano score available) 30 minutes San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, I. Dobrowen, cond. Jan 5 1934 Awarded Pulitzer Fellowship, 1932 G. Schirmer  
Symphony No. 2 (1937) 4 movements (2 Piano score available) 25 minutes Illinois Symphony Orchestra, E. Bacon, cond. Studebaker Theatre, Chicago, 2/5/1940   G. Schirmer  
Symphony No. 4 5 movements - 26 minutes   Incomplete Ernst Bacon Society  
Twilight 3 songs for low voice and Orchestra - 8 minutes San Francisco Federal Orchestra, E. Bacon, cond. 1936 Text of Walt Whitman Fleisher Collection