Publisher

Theodore Presser

Year of Composition

2006

Duration

10'

Instrumentation

Narrator, string quintet (2 violins, viola, cello, double bass), and harp

Categories

Chamber Music
Works for Youth

Text Writer

Susan Grizzell, adapted from a Chinese folktale

Program Note

A story for children based on a Chinese folktale about a young girl who saves the villagers from dying of thirst. She selflessly offers to sacrifice herself to the god of the mountain so that her village will be provided with water. At the last moment she is magically rescued by an old man in green.

—Victoria Bond

Purchase Sheet Music

Score & Parts (Theodore Presser)

Commission & Premiere Info

Commissioned by the Inidanapolis Chamber Orchestra
Premiered by the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra at The Children's Museum of Indianapolis on August 6, 2006