In evening's stillness
From Wind Repertory Project
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General Info
Year: 1996
Duration: c. 12:00
Difficulty: VI (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Schott Helicon Music
Cost: Score and Parts - $174 | Score Only - $49.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Piccolo
Flutes I-II-III
Oboes I-II-III
English Horn
Bassoons I-II-III
Contrabassoon
Bb Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
Bb Bass Clarinet
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trumpet (in Bb) I-II-III
Trombones I-II-III
Tuba
Piano (amplified)
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III-IV, including:
- Bass Drum (2)
- Bongos
- Crotales
- Glockenspiel
- Marimba (2)
- Tam-tam (2)
- Timbales
- Timpani
- Tom-Toms (1 set of 4)
- Triangle (4)
- Tubular Bells
- Vibraphone (2)
- Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
In evening’s stillness was commissioned by the Illinois College Band Directors Association in 1996. It was premiered at the Midwest Music Educators National Conference convention in Peoria, Illinois, by an ensemble made up of students from the ten universities that participated in the consortium, Donald Hunsberger conducting. As in his previous two works for wind ensemble, In evening’s stillness was inspired by poetry:
In evening’s stillness
a gentle breeze,
distant thunder
encircles the silence.
-Joseph Schwantner
"The piece is the third of three works I have written for winds, brass, percussion, and piano. It forms the middle movement of a trilogy of pieces that includes and the mountains rising nowhere and From a Dark Millennium. In all three works, the piano is responsible for presenting the primary melodic, gestural, harmonic, and sonoric elements that unfold in the music. While each work is self-contained, I always envisioned the possibility that they could be combined to form a larger and more expansive three movement formal design.”
Program Note by Nikk Pilato
Commercial Discography
State Ratings
- Florida: VI
- South Carolina: VI
- Texas: V
Recent Performances
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Additional Works for Winds by this Composer
- and the mountains rising nowhere (1977)
- Beyond Autumn (tr. Miles) (2006)
- Concerto for Percussion (tr. Boysen) (1997)
- From a Dark Millennium (1982)
- New Morning for the World: Daybreak of Freedom (tr. Pilato) (2007)
- Recoil (2004)
Additional Resources
- Higbee, Scott. (2003). "Joseph Schwantner" from A Composer's Insight." Galesville, MD: Meredith Music.
- Pilato, Nikk. (2007). A Conductor's Guide to Wind Music of Joseph Schwantner Doctoral Dissertation.
- Renshaw, Jeffrey. (1991). Schwantner on Composition. Instrumentalist, 45(6)
