MUSIC FROM JAPAN WORKS INFORMATION

Composer Name: Koh-ichi Hattori

Composition Name: Divertimento for 12 voice & 2 celli

Composition Date:                       1975 
Configuration:                         Vocal
Featured Instrument:                   Cello
Japanese Instrument(s):                N
Length:                                10:55
Players:                               14
Version (Original/Revised):            O
MFJ Presented:                         Y

Recording Title:                       Japanese Composers
Label Name:                            JFC
Recording Format:                      Record Album
Commercial/Non-Commercial:             C
Recording (American/Japanese/Other):   J
Release (American/Japanese/Other):     J
Solo/Compilation:                      C
Item Number:                           JFC-R8002
Number of Copies:                       1 

World Premiere City:                   Osaka, Japan
World Premiere Date:                   1975
World Premiere Performers:             Echo Elegante

American Premiere Venue:               Lincoln Center
American Premiere City:                New York
American Premiere Sponsor:             Music From Japan
American Premiere Date:                2/3/86
American Premiere Performers:          G. Smith Singers, D. Lawson, K. Parens
Name of Publisher:                     Japan Federation of Composers
Origin (American/Japanese):            J
Single Score/Compilation:              S
Article/Review:                        R

Publication:                           The New York Times
Title:                                 Five Local Premieres
Author/Critic:                         Will Crutchfield
Publication Date:                      2/5/86
Reaction:                              Positive
Synopsis:                              "12 sopranos and altos...called nonesnse syllables to one another
                                       in brilliant strange intervals...while two cellists on the stage
                                       conversed in recitative-like lines..."
Origin (American/Japanese):            A