Festival of American Spirituals
Traditional, arranged by Jerry Nowak
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General Info
Year: 2012
Duration: c. 7:20
Difficulty: IV-1/2 (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Northeastern Music Publications
Cost: Score and Parts - $125.00 | Score Only - $25.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
Bassoon I-II
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-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium
Tuba
Timpani
Percussion
(percussion detail desired)
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
A beautiful collection of the following songs are woven into one seven minute and forty second composition: Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, Little David, Play Your Harp, Sometimes I Fell Like a Motherless Child, Ezekiel, Saw The Wheel, Were You There? Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen, and Ev'ry Time I Feel The Spirit.
- Program Note from publisher
Dedicated to the Kogarah Concert Band, Sydney, Australia, Ian Brown, musical director and principal conductor.
- Program Note from score
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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- Allan Hancock College (Santa Maria, Calif.) Concert Band (Greg Stoll, conductor) – 10 November 2018
- Allan Hancock College (Santa Maria, Calif.) Concert Band (Greg Stoll, conductor) - 10 May 2014
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Alexander's Ragtime Band (as arranger) (2013)
- American Patriotic Medley, An (as arranger) (2013)
- Battle Cry of Freedom (as arranger)
- Best of July Styne, The (as arranger) (1959)
- Big Band Polka (as arranger) (1978)
- Bravada
- Bridge Over Troubled Water (as arranger) (1972)
- Calypso Song
- Chicago (as arranger) (1922/2008)
- A Christmas Portrait (as arranger) (1984)
- The Christmas Song (as arranger) (1945/1974/1982)
- El Camino
- Fantasia on "Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair (as arranger) (2011)
- Festival of American Spirituals (as arranger) (2012)
- Indiana (as arranger) (1917/2011)
- March of the Freemen
- Mr. Sandman (as arranger) (1954/1981)
- Rock 'n' Roll Explosion! (as arranger) (1985)
- Selections from "Star Trek (The Motion Picture)" (as arranger)
- Selections from "They're Playing Our Song" (as arranger) (1978/1979)
- Sevilla (as transcriber) (1886/1974/1997)
- Sinatra in Concert (as arranger) (1981)
- Songs of the American West (as arranger) (1981)
- Spring Song (1986)
- Under the Sea (as arranger) (1990)
- The White Ensign (1987)
Resources
- Nowak, J. (1990). Festival of American Spirituals [score]. Hal Leonard: Milwaukee.