Capriccio for String Orchestra

Description

Smit's Capriccio is his homage to the great Tchaikovsky. He points to a theme extracted from Sleeping Beauty that forms the basis for the second part, in a theme-and-variations approach. Capriccio was first performed at the Ojai Festival in 1958, with Smit's good friend Aaron Copland conducting. Manuscript facsimile.