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BTC929 AN AMERICAN IN ENGLAND NO 5: THE YANKS ARE HERE

Radio score
Composition date: pre 31 Aug 1942
Genre: Incidental music
Performing forces:

2 fl, 2 ob, 2 cl in B flat and A, 2 bn, dbn - 4 hn in F, 2 tpt in C, 2 trbn, bass trbn, tuba - timp, 2 perc (xyl, trgl, tamb, susp cymb, cym, wb, sd, bd) - pf, harp - str

Notes

The fifth of a series of six dramas 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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