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Deep reverberation fills with stars, a
General Info
Year: 2022
Duration: c. 8:40
Difficulty: V (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Osti Music
Cost: Parts (Rental) - $450.00 | Score (Purchase) - $75.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II-III-IV
Oboe I-II
Bassoon I-II
Contrabassoon
E-flat Soprano Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III-IV
B-flat Bass Clarinet I-II
B-flat Contrabass Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Saxophone
E-flat Alto Saxophone
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II-III-IV
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III
Bass Trombone
Euphonium
Tuba I-II (II preferred)
String Bass
Piano
Timpani
Percussion (7 players), including:
- Bass Drum
- Cabasa
- Chimes
- China Cymbals (small)
- Crash Cymbals
- Crotales
- EFX (or small China Cymbal)
- Glockenspiel
- Handbells (3)
- Hi-Hat
- Marimba
- Sandpaper Blocks
- Splash Cymbal
- Suspended Crash Cymbal
- Suspended Cymbal
- Tambourine
- Triangle
- Vibraphone
- Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
This is the biggest piece I’ve written since being medicated for ADHD [attention deficit hyperactivity disorder] (I was diagnosed in mid-2020), and it’s the most substantial piece I’ve written since the start of the pandemic. (I’ve written very little; it was basically impossible for me to motivate myself when concerts grinded to a halt. Things feel much more normal -- and creative -- again.)
So the idea with this one, partially by design, but largely just because it happened to turn out this way once I started writing, is that of emerging from darkness, “a deep reverberation,” with the return of some sense of normalcy, coinciding with, at least for me, some hope of an improvement of mental health.
That said, none of this piece is sorrowful. It starts with handbells! (Thank you, Larry Livingston, for your help with that!) But it does spend eight minutes pulling back and forth between levels of tension before finally “filling with stars.”
- Program Note by composer
Commissioned by Amador Friends of Music in honor of Jonathan Grantham's 20th Anniversary as Director of Bands at Amador Valley High School.
For Jonathan Grantham.
- Program Note from score
Media
- Audio: Reference recording. MIDI realization
- Video: Allen (Tx.) High School Wind Ensemble (Philip A. Obado, conductor)
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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- Broken Arrow (Okla.) High School Wind Ensemble (Jerry Junkin, conductor) - 1 March 2023 (88th Annual ABA National Convention)
- University of Georgia (Athens) Hodgson Wind Ensemble (Nicholas Enrico Williams, conductor) – 16 February 2023 (CBDNA 2023 National Conference, Athens, Ga.)
- Allen (Tx.) High School Wind Ensemble (Philip A. Obado, conductor) - 20 December 2022 (2022 Midwest Clinic)
- University of Texas, Arlington, Wind Symphony (Douglas Stotter, conductor) - 18 November 2022
- University of Georgia (Athens) Hodgson Wind Ensemble (Nicholas Enrico Williams, conductor) - 17 November 2022
- Amador Valley High School (Pleasanton, Calif.) Wind Ensemble I (Jonathan Grantham, conductor) - 24 May 2022 *Premiere Performance*
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Let Me Be Frank with You (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Night on Fire (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Ambrose) (2013/2021)
- Sheltering Sky (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Dunnigan) (2012/2020)
- Strange Humors (Flex instrumentation) (2006/2020)
- This Cruel Moon (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Dunnigan) (2017/2020)
All Wind Works
- Antique Violences (2017)
- Asphalt Cocktail (2009)
- Aurora Awakes (2009)
- Clocking (2007)
- Concerto for Soprano Sax and Wind Ensemble (2007)
- Damn (1998)
- A deep reverberation fills with stars (2022)
- Divine Mischief (2022)
- Drum Music: Concerto for Percussion (2011)
- Fanfare for Full Fathom Five (2015)
- Foundry (2011)
- The Frozen Cathedral (2012)
- Harvest: Concerto for Trombone (2009)
- High Wire (2012)
- Hymn to a Blue Hour (2010)
- Hymn to a Blue Hour (arr. Wallace) (2010/2021)
- Kingfishers Catch Fire (2007)
- Let Me Be Frank with You (2020/2021)
- Let Me Be Frank with You (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Lightning Field (2015)
- Liminal (2016)
- Mom Song
- The Night Garden (2017)
- Night on Fire. See: The Soul Has Many Motions
- Places we can no longer go (2018)
- (redacted) (2013)
- Redline Tango (2004)
- The Rumor of a Secret King (2017/2018)
- The Rumor of a Secret King (arr. Blegen) (2017/2018/2020)
- Sacred Spaces (2019)
- Sasparilla (2005)
- Sheltering Sky (2012)
- Sheltering Sky (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Dunnigan) (2012/2020)
- Snarl (2018)
- Some treasures are heavy with human tears (2021)
- Songs from the End of the World (2015)
- The Soul Has Many Motions (2013)
- Night on Fire (2013)
- Night on Fire (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Ambrose) (2013/2021)
- Strange Humors (2006)
- Strange Humors (Flex instrumentation) (2006/2020)
- Strange Humors (saxophone ensemble) (2006/2021)
- This Cruel Moon (2014/2017)
- This Cruel Moon (Flex instrumentation) (2017/2020)
- Turbine (2006)
- Turning (2007)
- Undertow (2008)
- Until the Scars (2014/2019)
- Venomous Devices (2023)
- Wine-Dark Sea (2014)
- Xerxes (2010)
Resources
- Perusal score
- John Mackey website (OstiMusic) Accessed 24 March 2022