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Glimpse through the Trees, A
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General Info
Year: 2014
Duration: c. 7:55
Difficulty: IV (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Manuscript
Cost: Score and Parts - Unknown
Instrumentation
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Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
After a successful collaboration in 1997 between Boysen and the Washington, IL Community High School Bands, director Jim Tallman asked Boysen to create another work for his ensemble in 2015. For this second commission, Tallman asked for a more lyrical and beautiful composition. A Glimpse Through the Trees is the product of that commission.
In describing his compositional process, Boysen says he does his best writing when he has a “personal association” with the piece. After struggling to find a connection for A Glimpse Through the Trees, Boysen shares the following:
“It had been a particularly stressful day, not unlike those that we all seem to face with an unfortunate consistency. As I rounded a bend on a back road in rural New Hampshire, I glanced to my left and noticed a long drive that wandered off the main road into strikingly beautiful fall foliage. My breath caught in my throat as I was struck by how magnificent it all was. It was really just a perfect, fleeting moment, a moment that reminded me how wonderful life is and how insignificant most of my problems were. That single moment of peace is what I hoped to create musically, something that would give the band members a brief respite from the pressures of their own lives and allow them to appreciate the beauty that surrounds us all.”
- Program Note from The Ohio State University Symphonic Band concert program, 6 October 2016
Media
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State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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- The Ohio State University (Columbus) Symphonic Band (Scott A. Jones, conductor) – 6 October 2016
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Alchemy (2008/2013)
- All the Pretty Little Horses. See: Three Folk Song Settings for Band
- Ancient Runes (2017)
- Apples (2018)
- Branden's Rainbow (1997/2002)
- Bright Sunny Days (2013)
- By My Side (2018)
- Casus Belli (2018)
- Celebration In Brass (1995)
- Concerto for Percussion (as transcriber) (1994/1997)
- Conversations with the Night (1994)
- Dance, from All Hail the Power
- December Dance (2005)
- Diamond Jubilee Suite (2018)
- Distorted Images: A Jazzman's Nightmare (1989)
- A Fallen Leaf (2004)
- Fanfare: In Memoriam (2015)
- Fantasy on a Theme by Sousa (2003)
- Frenzy (2010)
- The Four Horsemen (1989)
- A Glimpse through the Trees (2014)
- Grant Them Eternal Rest (2003)
- Havener Fanfare (2012)
- Heirloom (2009)
- I Am (1990)
- John Henry (1990)
- Joyride (2003/2008)
- Kinetic Energy (1994)
- Kirkpatrick Fanfare (1999)
- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (2006)
- Metamorphosis (2013)
- Old Ben's Farm (2016/2019)
- On the Merrimack (2010)
- Ovations (1995)
- Phoenix (2020)
- Poor Wayfaring Stranger. See: Three Folk Song Settings for Band
- Relentless (2000)
- Scarborough Fair. See: Three Folk Song Settings for Band
- Scherzo (1995)
- Scherzo No 2 (2013)
- Shades of Ivory (1996)
- Simple Song (1995)
- Snowflakes Dancing (2012/2016)
- Song for Lyndsay (2005)
- Song for My Children (2013)
- Song for My Parents (2020)
- Song of Loudest Praise, A (2010)
- Song of the Sea Maidens (1994)
- Stamp, from A Jack Stamp Suite (2017)
- Star-Crossed (2013)
- Symphony No. 1 for Winds and Percussion (1997)
- Symphony No. 3 (1999)
- Symphony No. 4 (2006)
- Symphony No. 6 (2012)
- Symphony No. 8 (2015-2016)
- Symphony No. 10 (2019)
- This Is the Drum (2013)
- Thoughts of You (1998)
- Three Folk Song Settings for Band
- Poor Wayfaring Stranger (2007/2012)
- All the Pretty Little Horses (as arranger) (2014)
- Scarborough Fair (as arranger) (2013)
- Time Streams (After Tricycle) (2011)
- To Break Earth's Sleep (2015)
- Tricycle (1997)
- Twilight of the Gods (2010)
- An Uncommon Man (1993)
- Unraveling (2006)
- Urban Scenes (1993)
- The Vikings (2015)
Resources
- Andrew Boysen website Accessed 29 September 2016