Japanese fables : for chorus, narrator & small orchestra - Biggs, John 1932- (Consort Press, 1984)
Instrumentación: 6 flautas, 2 oboes, 2 clarinetes, clarinete bajo, 2 fagots, 2 percusión, tímpani, bajo--"This work was commissioned by the Olympic Program Committee of California State University at Los Angeles, and received its Premiere on that campus on August 15, 1984, under the direction of William Wells Belan. The text is drawn from stories of the Zen Buddhist, and from Haiku by Basho, Buson, Chora, Hokushi, Issa, Joso, Kikusha-ni, Ryota, Shiki, and Sokan"