Chorales (on Brecht)
General Info
Year: 2017
Duration: c. 4:50
Difficulty: III (see Ratings for explanation)
Original Medium: Orchestra
Publisher: Meechan Music
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $90.00; (digital) - $75.00 | Score Only (print) - $25.00; (digital) - $25.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Flute I-II
Oboe
Bassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II-III
Horn in F I-II
Trombone I-II
Bass Trombone
Euphonium
Tuba
Timpani
Percussion, including:
- Bass Drum
- Glockenspiel
- Suspended Cymbal
- Vibraphone
Errata
- Trumpet I, m. 76: written note should be C5 (confirmed with composer)
Program Notes
Inspired by the short Brecht epigraph at the start of his 1939 Svendborg Poems (“In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing About the dark times.”), Chorales (on Brecht) was written around the time that a concert in my home city of Manchester, UK, was bombed, killing 22 concert goers. The reaction saw the people of Manchester taking to the streets, singing together, listening to poetry – art and love drowned out the darkness.
This piece features several small chorales, some reflecting on the dark times we are currently living through, and some painting the optimistic picture of the future that my city showed in the aftermath.
Commissioned by Sam Taylor and the Sheldon-Williams Jr. and Sr. Concert Band, Regina.
- Program Note by composer
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- University of Nebraska Kearney Wind Ensemble (Duane Bierman, conductor)– 12 April 2018
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Forgotten Children (Adaptable Band) (2014/2020)
- Letters for Home (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Ambrose) (2014/2020)
- Lullaby (Flex instrumentation) (2021)
- Lullaby. See also: Suite Treats
- Plaza Fanfare (Adaptable Band) (2020)
- Song of Hope (Flex instrumentation) (2013/2020)
- Taking the Fifth (Adaptable Band) (2020)
- Zenith (Adaptable Band) (2020)
All Wind Works
- Apex
- Athabasca (2018)
- Autumn Falling
- Bang 2 (2007)
- Carnival (2006)
- Chorales (on Brecht) (2017)
- Close to the Sun (2018)
- Crazy Diamonds Shining
- Devil's Duel
- Dreams Unseen (2021)
- Each Life Converges (2022)
- Episodes and Echoes
- Eternal Light (2008)
- Fanfare for a Festival (Meechan)
- Forgotten Children (Adaptable Band) (2014/2020)
- Fragile Oasis (2013/14)
- ISS Flyover (2012)
- Korn Symphony (2015)
- Lament (from Macbeth) (2008/2014)
- Land of the Living Skies (2018)
- let this place (2019)
- Letters for Home (2014)
- Letters for Home (arr. Ambrose) (2014/2020)
- Lift Off (2006)
- Loss Verses (2021)
- Lullaby (Flex instrumentation) (2021)
- Lullaby. See also: Suite Treats
- Macbeth (Meechan)
- Machines (2020)
- Match Day (2006)
- Meditations (2023)
- Origins (2012)
- Perpetua (2019)
- Plaza Fanfare (Adaptable Band) (2020)
- Renaissance of Wonder (2016)
- Shift (2023)
- Shine (2011)
- A Short Blast (2023)
- Soliloquies from a Quiet Place (2019)
- Song of Hope (with trumpet solo) (2013/2015)
- Song of Hope (band) (2013/2015)
- Song of Hope (Flex instrumentation) (2013/2020)
- Soul Divine (2017)
- Taking the Fifth (2020/2021)
- Taking the Fifth (Adaptable Band) (2020)
- These Mist Covered Mountains
- Three Stories, Three Worlds (2004)
- Through Clouds and Sunshine (2021)
- Velvet Blue (2013)
- Waves Toward the Pebbled Shore (2018)
- Zenith (Adaptable Band) (2020)
Resources
- Peter Meechan website Accessed 7 September 2020\