The first of
the two works I wrote for Hanya Holm, “Tragic
Exodus,” was a single movement, about ten minutes
in length. “They Too Are Exiles” was longer,
in a number of movements. Both dealt with
“social” themes, but the strong emotional
drive in these works made musical identification
comparatively easy….”They Too Are
Exiles” had sections with a strong ethnic flavor,
which presented the problem of creating of homogeneous
musical fabric. This large work really needed orchestral
support, but in 1940 two pianists at one piano were the
principal musical resource of dancer and composer.
–Vivian Fine, Dance Perspectives, v. 16,
1963