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Morning Alleluias
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General Info
Year: 1989 (pub. 1991)
Duration: c. 5:10
Difficulty: V (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Ludwig Music
Cost: Score and Parts - $75.00 | Score Only - $15.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Piccolo
Flute I-II-III
Oboe I-II
English Horn (Oboe)
Bassoon I-II
Contrabassoon
Eb Soprano Clarinet (same as Piccolo)
Bb Soprano Clarinet I-II-III-IV
Bb Bass Clarinet
Bb Contrabass Clarinet
Alto Saxophone I-II
Tenor Saxophone
Baritone Saxophone
Bb Trumpet I-II-III-IV
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III-IV
Tuba
String Bass
Piano I-II (Piano four hands with II doubling Celesta)
Timpani
Percussion (min. 6 players), including:
- Bass Drum
- Bell Chimes
- Bell Tree
- Crotales
- Cymbals (crash)
- Marimba
- Glockenspiel
- Gong
- Sleigh Bells
- Triangle
- Vibraphone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Noted conductor Frederick Fennell wrote in the score:
Morning Alleluias for The Winter Solstice probably became the spirit as well as the title which Ron Nelson chose for this music when I told him of my personal experience in awakening one morning in a Hiroshima hotel room that was ablaze with brilliant morning sunlight. As I lay in bed with so many dark thoughts also crowding-in on that morning’s bright expectancies for the living day ahead, I knew that these moments could only be celebrated as the triumph of the people of Hiroshima through the creation of a musical expression. The Hiroshima morning was in late November. Ron accepted my commission a few days later in Chicago. Other work was put aside so Ron could produce the score, which he signed on 1 March 1989.
Morning Alleluias was commissioned by Frederick Fennell. It was premiered by the Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra on May 14, 1989 with Fennell conducting. The work begins in an ethereal mood consisting of singing, trombone glissandi, and meditative inflections (aleatoric rhythms). Above this rises a hymn like progression in the flutes and later the clarinets. Halfway through the tempo becomes twice as fast with incessant eighth notes in the piano and percussion. The faster section contains two Japanese inspired tunes. A powerful one heard in the brass and then a more subdued one in the woodwinds.
Commercial Discography
- Audio CD: Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra (Frederick Fennell, conductor)
- Audio CD: University of North Texas Wind Symphony (Eugene Migliaro Corporon, conductor)
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Recent Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- High School Symphonic Band [Interlochen, Mich.] (Frederick Fennell, conductor) - 11 August 1991
Works for Winds by this Composer
- Aspen Jubilee
- Brevard Fanfare
- Chaconne (In Memoriam…)
- Concerto for Piano & Symphonic Band
- Courtly Airs and Dances
- Danza Capriccio
- Epiphanies (Fanfares and Chorales)
- Fanfare for a Celebration
- Fanfare for Kennedy Center
- Fanfare for the Hour of Sunrise
- Fanfare for the New Millennium
- Lauds (Praise High Day)
- Mayflower Overture
- Medieval Suite
- Morning Alleluias
- Nightsong
- Passacaglia (Homage on B-A-C-H)
- Pastorale: Autumn Rune
- Pebble Beach Sojourn
- Resonances I
- Rocky Point Holiday
- Savannah River Holiday
- Sonoran Desert Holiday
- Te Deum Laudamus
- To the Airborne
Additional Resources
- Nelson, R. (1991). Morning alleluias for a winter solstice [full score]. Ludwig Music Publishing, Cleveland, OH.
