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        • Franz Waxman

        • The Spirit of St. Louis: Suite (1957)

        • G Schirmer under license to Fidelio Music from Warner Chappell (World)

        adapted by Arnold Freed

        • 3(I,II:pic;III:tsx).2(II:ca,[obda]).5(I:Ebcl;III:[tsx];V:bcl).2(II:cbn)/4.3.3.1/timp.4perc/2hp.2pf(II:cel).novachord/str/[3S+2Mz]
        • narrator
        • 33 min
        • James Forsyth
        • English

        Programme Note

        poster

        Sections
        Part I: Building the Spirit
           Prelude
           Building the Spirit
        Part II: In Flight
           First Test Flight
           After Takeoff to Cape Cod
           Flight to St. Louis
        Part III: Arrival
           Asleep
           Ireland
           Plymouth
           Le Bourget

        The Scottish playwright James Forsyth, was born on March 3, 1913, in Glasgow and received his training at the Glasgow School of Art. He was the first playwright-in-residence at the Old Vic, where he became the protégé of Tyrone Guthrie, Ralph Richardson, Laurence Olivier, and Michael St. Denis. His career included plays about historical figures such as Tolstoy and Napoleon and fictional characters such as the monster Trog. During his career he wrote ten more plays for television and 18 for BBC Radio. Among his greatest international successes wereThe Other Heart, Heloise, and Emmanuel. He died on February 16, 2005, in West Sussex, England.

        Forsyth first collaborated with Franz Waxman in writing the libretto for his unfinished opera Dr. Jekyll. Their next project was the oratorio Joshua, then The Spirit of St. Louis Suite and Ruth.

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