David
General Info
Year: 1995
Duration: c. 15:33
Difficulty: V (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Stormworld
Cost: Score and Parts - $160.00 | Score Only - $45.00
Movements
1. The Battle to Come
2. Psalm 30
3. The Touchstone – 6:02
4. A Sling and a Stone – 7:07
Instrumentation
Full Score
Soprano Solo
C Piccolo/Flute I
Flute II
Oboe
Bassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
B-flat Bass Clarinet
B-flat Contrabass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone I-II
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II-III
Horn in F I-II-III
Trombone I-II
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass
Piano
Synthesizer I-II-III-IV
Timpani
Percussion, including:
- Bass Drum
- Crash Cymbals
- Finger Cymbals
- Suspended Cymbal
- Tam-Tam
- Wind Chimes
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Description Stephen's 800th, four-movement work, David has many layers of meaning. True for all of the "storm" works, these layers have been extended to include the use of many new and fresh colours. David is a dramatic work, calling for a boy-soprano or soprano-actress who can depict David, the boy before battle! David is a work about Faith Triumphant!
David's faith brings down the insurmountable Goliath. The work is dedicated to Faith and Hope despite the untimely passings of friends and family.
-Program Note from publisher
What is the connection between the movements and why is this piece called David? In this telling of the classic
confrontation of the small standing against the insurmountable, David sings a prayer... perhaps another of his psalms.
The prayer is inspired after hearing the tale of The Touchstone, delivered to David by an emissary from a distant land. Realizing his own mortality, David continues to search for The Touchstone while
offering his life in unyielding Faith.
As Fate would have it, David finds The Touchstone! It is then that Goliath so unrelentingly approaches. With no sword, no armor, no lance, David holds The Touchstone in his hand as if weighing his find. Then, without hesitation, he loads it into the sling and hurls it at the head of his enemy.
David’s Faith saved his people. For that Faith, for that noble cause, even The Touchstone was worth throwing away... DAVID is dedicated to the “Davids” of our world and to the memory of those who, despite untimely passings, have spent their lives for noble causes often considered small... or perhaps not noticed at all. These people are like “Touchstones”, rare and precious... but their lives have not been in vain.
-Program Note by composer
Commercial Discography
- Audio CD: CDBaby recording - Performers not named - 1997
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- San Luis Obispo (Calif.) Wind Orchestra (William V. Johnson, conductor) – 2 December 2000
Works for Winds by This Composer
- America the Brave (1981)
- Aurora (1998)
- Ben Hur (as arranger) (1959/2008)
- Concerto for Violin and Band (2000)
- David (1995)
- The Defenders of Truefire! (1996)
- Escape from Plato's Cave (1993)
- Festival of Light! (1995)
- Finest Hour! (2000)
- Forbidden Fortress (1997)
- Giving!
- Godspeed! (1997)
- HAJJ (2000)
- Honor, Courage...Commitment (1996/1998)
- I Shall Hear in Heaven
- In a Cause Called "Glorious" (2001)
- In the Beginning (1992)
- Millennium (1997)
- O Come Holy Night! (1993)
- Once More Unto the Breach (2004)
- The Shoemaker (1999/2006)
- The Speech of Angels (1998)
- Stormworks
- Three Musical Haikus for Band (1984)
- Time to Take Back the Knights! (1999)
- Triumph at CHO-SIN! (1996)
- Under the Cover of Night ... Into the Light of Day! (1993)
- The Universe Below
- A Walk in Jurassic Park. See: In the Beginning
- Without Warning (1996)
- WU (2008)
Resources
None discovered thus far.