Tragic Celebration (1964)
(Ballet after the Tragedy of Jeptha's Daughter)

Tragic Celebration began life as the ballet score Jephtha's Daughter in which a rash oath results in Jephtha having to slay his own daughter. This orchestral piece has the redolence of Barber's Cave of the Heart with crackling violence and some tenderness. The piece ends touchingly with a silvery tintinnabulatory gleam.