Program Note:
The Cambridge Dictionary defines legend as “a very old story or set of stories … not always true, that people tell about a famous event or person.” See also myth and epic.
This is a legend of a place at a time. There are people. The worries of our modern day are of no concern, but that is not to say that there are no worries in that place at that time with those people.
Divisi: 1st violins by 2 and by 3, 2nd violins by 2, violas by 2, ‘cellos by 2.