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Morning Songs in Hiroshima
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General Info
Year: 2009
Duration: c. 8:30
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Ito Music
Cost: Score and Parts - Unknown
Instrumentation
Piccolo
Flutes
Oboes
English Horn
Bassoons
E-flat Soprano Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
E-flat Alto Clarinet
B-flat Bass Clarinet
B-flat Contrabass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Sax I-II
B-flat Tenor Sax
E-flat Baritone Sax
B-flat Trumpet I-II-III
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass
Harp
Timpani
Percussion, including:
- Bass Drum
- Bell Tree
- Chimes (A)
- Crash Cymbals
- Crotale (E-flat)
- Glockenspiel (or Celesta)
- Ratchet
- Snare Drums (2)
- Suspended Cymbal
- Tam
- Tambourine
- Vibraphone (or Celesta)
- Wind Chime
- Xylophone
- Sleigh Bells (2)
- Toms (2)
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Around 1990 I received a request for a piece about Nagasaki. That city, along with Hiroshima, experienced the horrors of nuclear weapons for the first time in human history. I did not feel I was at a point where I could write about a monumental theme like war. That's how I came to compose Gloriosa ("Gururiyoza"), regarding underground Christianity in the area of Nagasaki.
In 2009, I received a commission from Hiroshima, another city with a terrible atomic war memory. This time for sure I wanted to write about war and peace. I wanted to use all of my heart and soul to create a song of prayers, and to describe the drowning city becoming a symbol of peace, calling it Morning Songs reflecting a "Morning of Peace." It was morning when the bomb hit Hiroshima -- August 6, 1945, at 8:15 a.m.
The start of the 21st century also saw the September 11 attacks in USA. I began writing many peace-themed works for band and chorus, including the recent The Tale of the Blackened Canteen (opera) that premiered in May 2018.
Morning Song in Hiroshima was commissioned by the Suzugamine Girls High School Wind Orchestra; it premiere on April 26, 2009.
- Program Note by composer
Commercial Discography
None discovered thus far.
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Unión Musical Santa Cecelia de Villar del Arzobispo (Spain) (Yasuhide Ito, conductor) – 13 July 2019 - WASBE Conference (Buñol, Spain)
- Suzugamine Girls High School (Japan) – 26 April 2009 *Premiere Performance*
Works for Winds by this Composer
- Adagio for Band
- A la Suite Classique (1996)
- As Time Is Passing On (2000)
- Choral Fantasy
- Cioccolata d'amore
- Concertino for piano and band (Ito)
- Evocation (Ito)
- Fanfares for National Athletic Meet at Fukushima
- Fantasia Classica
- Fantasy Variations (Ito) (2004/2012)
- Festal Ballade for Band (2016)
- Festal Scenes (1986)
- Festeggiamo e Cantiamo, Musica Festiva per Banda
- Fuji
- Funa-Uta (1993/1999)
- Gloriosa ("Gururiyoza") (1990)
- Go For Broke
- Hamamatsu Overture
- Kokiriko alla Marcia
- La Vita (1998)
- Liturgia Sinfonica
- Maiko Spring March
- March 'fuji no Yama'
- March 'Over the Century'
- March 'Over the Wind'
- March 'The Three Tops Hill'
- March, Wind & Sun
- Meguru Kisetsu ni
- Melodies for Wind Ensemble
- Morning Songs in Hiroshima (2009)
- On the March (1978/1991)
- Pacem et gloriam pro nobis
- Peace, Peace, so Sing the Birds (2018)
- Piano Concerto (Ito)
- Planets, The, Trilogy for Band
- Preludio Celebrativo
- Progres
- Rag-Time-March
- Rapsodia di Toyama
- Rapsodia Formasa
- Remembrance II
- Ryukuan Fantasy for Band (1997)
- Sinfonia Singaporiana (2005)
- Solo Una Volta! (2013)
- Soma Festival March
- Soma Festival March No.2
- Sonata Classica
- Tableau
- That Which He Has Taught Us (2015)
- Variations from the Northern Sea (1993)
