As Winds Dance
General Info
Year: 2003
Duration: c. 1:30
Difficulty: I-1/2 (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes
Cost: Score and Parts - $55.00 | Score Only - $5.50
Instrumentation
Full Score
Flute
Oboe
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II
Horn in F
Trombone
Euphonium
Tuba
Timpani
Percussion, including:
- Bass Drum
- Crash Cymbals
- Glockenspiel
- Snare Drum
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
I can still hear my college sight-singing professor, Dr. Louis Munkachy, telling us, in his thick Hungarian accent, "Repetition is the mother of knowledge." For every bit of truth this statement holds, it is equally true that repetition is that natural enemy of the eleven- to thirteen year-old. Their motto more resembles: I did it great once; therefore, greatness must flow from me. So, in trying to compose a piece that painlessly introduced middle level students to syncopation, I knew that repetition had to be present, but disguised so as not to look like something instructive. Moreover, the students would need to perceive (on their own) that the musical needs of the piece dictated how many times a syncopated pattern would recur. I believe that balance exists in As Winds Dance. I hope you and your students enjoy it.
This piece was commissioned by Stephen Kraus for the young students he loves to teach. After twelve years of top-notch high school band directing (including an appearance in the Tournament of Roses Parade and earning the title for the longest parade march in the Guinness Book of World Records), he took a paternity leave at the peak of his career, shortly after his first child was born. He now teaches elementary instrumental music in the North Allegheny School District.
- Program Note by composer
Media
- Audio: Reference recording. Ensemble and conductor unknown
- Audio CD: Grisham Middle School Band (Jim VanZandt, conductor) - 2008
State Ratings
- Georgia: II
- Indiana: ISSMA JUNIOR BAND GROUP II
- Maryland: II
- South Carolina: II
- Tennessee: II
- West Virginia: II
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Idaho State University (Pocatello) Wind Ensemble (Patrick Young, conductor) - 15 February 2023
- Idaho State University (Pocatello) Civic Concert Band (Erin Armstrong, conductor) – 13 November 2019
- Jefferson County (Ky.) 7th Grade All-County Band, (Jason Cumberledge, conductor) - 19 November 2018
- Computech Middle School (Clovis, Calif.) Symphonic Band (Marco Mellone, conductor - 17 April 2015 (2015 San Joaquin Valley (Calif.) Concert Band Invitational)
- Terronez Middle School (Fresno, Calif.) Concert Band (Robert Madrid, conductor) - 15 March 2013 (2013 Sutherland Wind Festival (Fresno, Calif.))
- Grisham Middle School (Austin, Tx.) Band (Jim VanZandt, conductor) – 18 December 2008 (2008 Midwest Clinic)
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Our Kingsland Spring (Flex instrumentation) (2005/2015)
All Wind Works
- Across the Halfpipe. See: Minnesota Portraits
- Ascend. See: Georgian Suite
- Alleluia (2012)
- Arabesque (2008/2009)
- Arrows (2014)
- As Winds Dance (2003)
- Autumn on White Lake (2010)
- Blessings
- Blue and Green Music (2011)
- Books With Blank Pages (2015)
- Bridges (2007)
- Chorus Angelorum (2009)
- Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Wind Ensemble (2008/2011)
- The Christmas Music of Samuel Hazo
- Danny Boy (as arranger) (2013)
- Diamond Fanfare (2006)
- Drums of the Saamis (2014)
- Each Time You Tell Their Story (2003)
- Echoes (2005)
- Enchanted Spaces (2012)
- Everything Beautiful (2015)
- The Stillness of Remembering (2015/2016)
- Exultate (2001/2003)
- Fantasy on a Japanese Folksong (1997/2005)
- For Heaven and the Future (2016)
- From Gold (2015)
- Georgian Suite (2002-2006)
- Our Kingsland Spring (2006)
- Our Kingsland Spring (Flex instrumentation) (2005/2015)
- Rivers (2002)
- Ascend (2005)
- Glorificare (2013)
- ...Go (2008)
- Hennepin County Dawn. See: Minnesota Portraits
- In Flight (2000/2008)
- In Heaven's Air (2002)
- Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (as arranger) (2012)
- Jubilatéo (Fanfare and Allegro) (2013)
- Keltic Variations (2003)
- Minnesota Portraits (2008)
- Mountain Thyme (2013)
- Novo Lenio (2002)
- Olympiada (1997/2002)
- Our Kingsland Spring. See: Georgian Suite
- Our Yesterdays Lengthen like Shadows (2010)
- Parkour (2011)
- Perthshire Majesty (2003/2004)
- Psalm 42 (2004)
- The Quest (2002)
- Rest. See: Minnesota Portraits
- Ride (2002)
- Rising Star (2006)
- Rivers. See: Georgian Suite
- Rush (2006)
- Seconds Out (2013)
- Sevens (2005)
- Siorai September (2011)
- Sky Is Waiting (2006)
- Sòlas Ané (2006)
- Southern Hymn (2009)
- Stella Maris (2014)
- The Stillness of Remembering. See: Everything Beautiful
- Their Blossoms Down (2002)
- Three Concert Fanfares (2007)
- To Be (2019)
- Today Is the Gift (2006)
- Voices of the Sky (2005)
- We Meet Again (2010)
- Whisper to their Souls (2008)
- A Zillion Nickels (2015)
Resources
- Heritage Encyclopedia of Band Music. "Samuel R. Hazo." Accessed 18 April 2015
- Samuel Hazo website