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Amelia, Flight Eternal
General Info
Year: 2021
Duration: c. 11:00
Difficulty: IV (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Bravo Music
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $115.00; (digital) - $115.00 | Score Only (print) - $20.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Flute I-II (I doubling Piccolo)
Oboe (optional)
Bassoon (optional)
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III (III optional)
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II (II optional)
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II-III (III optional)
Horn in F I-II-III (III optional)
Trombone I-II-III (III optional)
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass (optional)
Piano
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III, including:
- Bass Drum
- Bodhrán (or Conga)
- Castanets
- Crash Cymbals
- Drum Set
- Glockenspiel
- Marimba
- Suspended Cymbal
- Tambourine
- Tam-Tam
- Tom-Toms (4)
- Vibraphone
- Whip
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Record breaking aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart flew into history as one of the great mysteries of early daring flight. During a 1937 circumnavigation effort, her plane silently vanished into the vast Western Pacific, without a trace. Aside from that tragic loss, she must be remembered as a fearless promoter of women' s equality in global adventure.
Amelia's theme with woodwinds playing warmly is joined by brass, building to a fanfare in anticipation of the start of her journey. Following the route of Charles Lindbergh, her solo flight to Paris (landing in a pasture at Culmore, Derry, Northern Ireland) is portrayed in folk melodies.
The slow melody reappears, Amelia's theme is carried by solo flute depicting her dilemma in pursuing the global flight with a success rate of 50%. The Allegro shows her determination for departure. On July 2, from Lae (New Guinea) to Howland Island, with her last known transmission, "We are on the line 157 337. We will repeat this message. We will repeat this on 6210 kilocycles. Wait", Amelia disappeared. The song slows with Amelia' s theme, imagining her thoughts and views, with sorrowful melodies.
Public fascination over her fate still continues after 80 years. The work concludes with the feeling that Amelia may still be soaring in the sky.
- Program Note by composer
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Best of the West Wind Symphony (Grand Junction, Colo.) (Kaitlin Bove, conductor) - 2 December 2022
- Diablo Valley College (Pleasant Hill, Calif.) Band (Kaitlin Bove, conductor) - 2022
- Chelmsford (Mass.) High School Symphony Band (Matthew Sexauer, conductor) – Spring 2022
Works for Winds by this Composer
- Aim of the Great Figures (2016/2017)
- Amelia, Flight Eternal (2021)
- Archangel Raphael Who Leaves a House of Tobias (2008)
- Atlantis
- The Bell of the Atri
- The Boat of the Moon of Orion which Illuminates a Night Sky
- A Golden Apple of Hesperides
- Jubilation
- King Arthur and Three Maidens of a Lake
- The Last Letter from Murdoch (2009/2010/2015/2021)
- Le Petit Prince
- Liberty Guiding the People (2004)
- Magellan’s Voyage to Unknown Continent (2004)
- The Minstrel Boy Variations (2011)
- A Mirror of Gerda
- Noah’s Ark
- Princess KAGUYA (2013)
- Raising of Lazarus (2005/2013)
- Stabat Mater Dolorosa
- Tom Tit Tot
- When the Saints Go Marching In (as arranger)