The opening movement is nearly half the length of the entire piece followed by two shorter contrasting movements.

The funeral march was taken too fast, the opening movement's theme laden with accents.

Yet an undercurrent of energy and angst seemed to push the opening movement forward.

The opening movement sets only a single line: the title of the cantata.

By 1935, he had worked out the opening movement, "Emerson."

He did not finish the opening movement until the following year, then set aside the work for 50 years.

This theme is played by the violas in the introduction to the opening movement.

At Zaremba's insistence, he had composed a new second subject for the opening movement.

However, the opening movement relates to an earlier undatable version of the work.

And the climaxes in the opening movement never quite shone.