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Invocation (Turrin)
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General Info
Year: 1992
Duration: c. 6:25
Difficulty: III (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Neil A Kjos
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $70.00 | Score Only (print) - $7.00
Instrumentation
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Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Walt Whitman's poem Beat Beat Drums! is set to music in this grandiose work.
- Program Note from publisher
I composed Invocation in 1993 as part of a grant from the Wayne Township Public Schools and Meet the Composer's Education Program. I wanted to compose a work that would have some power and drive: something not too difficult to learn, but could easily open or close a concert program, leaving an air of excitement. I thought this text by Walt Whitman had the richness and power of what I was looking for. There is a sense of Americana here, but not the standard cliches one might expect.
The harmonic style is tonal in nature and most of the chords are built in thirds. The opening measures feature the percussion section. Military cadences with staccato percussion build to a most powerful climax. Then the woodwinds enter with a simple hymn like statement. At the Allegro Moderato there is a fanfare motive which brings us to the opening vocal statement. There is a feeling of military vigor here as the chorus urges us to what is to come.
- Program Note by composer
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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- University of North Carolina School of the Arts (Winston-Salem) Wind Ensemble (Mark Norman,conductor; Cantata Singers) - 8 November 2019
Works for Winds by This Composer
- and yet your touch upon them will not pass (2021)
- Arabesque (1990/2004)
- Celebration (2010)
- Chronicles (2000)
- Concert Processional (2011)
- Concertino for 11 Instruments and Wind Ensemble (2011)
- Dedication for Band (2009)
- Equinox (2010)
- Fandango: For Solo Trumpet, Trombone and Wind Symphony (1999)
- Fanfare and Prelude (2009)
- Hemispheres (2002)
- High Flight (2008)
- Hope Alive (2000)
- Illuminations (2004)
- Invocation (1992)
- Jazzalogue No 1 (1997/2002)
- Labyrinth (2011)
- Lullaby for Noah (2008)
- Masquerade (2012)
- Monologues (2010)
- Nessum Dorma (as arranger) (1926/2010)
- Quadrille (2002)
- Regiment of Heroes March (2016)
- Ritual. See: Soundings for Band (1997)
- Sandia Crest (2013)
- Scarecrow Overture (2009)
- Serenade Romantic (1982)
- The Sounding of the Call (2014)
- Soundings for Band (1997)
- Ritual (2011)
- Two Sketches for Band (1998)
- Zarabanda (1998)
Resources
- Joseph Turrin website Accessed 12 September 2021